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Endemic
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New Zealand
Political Region

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Boott
Boott
1853
ICN
Carex colensoi Boott
species
Carex colensoi

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Poales
Cyperaceae
Carex
colensoi

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Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.

Carex colensoi Boott

2n = c. 60–64
Healy, A. J.; Edgar, E. 1980: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. III. Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous and Spathaceous Monocotyledons. Government Printer, Wellington.

Carex colensoi Boott

Slender tufts to 25 cm high; rhizome far-extending. Leaves < stems. Inflorescence relatively large, ± drooping on a very slender stem, an ovate cluster of 1-4 chestnut-brown sessile spikes, ± 1 cm long, with much longer green filiform bract. Male flowers at base of spikes. Stigmas 2.
Moore, L.B.; Edgar, E. 1970: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. II. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Monocotyledones except Gramineae. Botany Division DSIR, Wellington.

Carex colensoi Boott

In distinct light green patches of slender tufts from a long-creeping rhizome. Rhizome 2–3 mm. diam., woody, often much branched and knotted, with shoots spaced singly and evenly along it, 1–1.5 mm. diam. at base. Culms rather variable in height, 4–25–(45) cm. × c. 0.5 mm., trigonous, flaccid, glab.; basal sheaths cream, grey, or light brown. Lvs us. < culms, occ. = or > culms, 0.5–1.5 mm. wide, soft, grasslike, channelled, occ. almost flat, margins minutely serrulate just below trigonous tip. Infl. 1–1.5 cm. long, of 1–4 clustered, shortly-peduncled, chestnut-brown spikes, subtended by a green, filiform, lf-like bract, much > infl., with margins minutely serrulate. Spikes androgynous, 7–10 × (2)–4–5 mm., ovoid, male fls at the base. Glumes = or slightly > utricles, ovate, subacute, brown, with a broad green midrib and broad silver hyaline margins. Utricles 2.5–3.5 × 1.5–2 mm., plano-convex, occ. almost subtrigonous when mature, brown, shining, with nerves not distinct, margin of upper part finely scabrid; beak hardly developed, c. 0.5 mm. long; stipe c. 0.5 mm. long. Stigmas 2. Nut c. 1.5 mm. long, ± biconvex, elliptic-oblong to orbicular, brown with a distinct stipe c. 0.2 mm. long.

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Carex colensoi Boott
Carex colensoi Boott
Dawson, M.I. (2008)
Carex L.
Carex colensoi Boott
Carex colensoi Boott
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2013)
Carex colensoi Boott
Carex colensoi Boott
Carex colensoi Boott
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2018)
Carex colensoi Boott
Carex colensoi Boott
Carex colensoi Boott
Healy, A. J.; Edgar, E. (1980)
Carex colensoi Boott
Carex colensoi Boott
Moore, L.B.; Edgar, E. (1970)
Carex picta Colenso
Carex picta Colenso
Moore, L.B.; Edgar, E. (1970)
Carex colensoi Boott

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Carex colensoi Boott
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Carex colensoi Boott
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Eastern
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Carex colensoi Boott
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Sounds-Nelson
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32f37abc-23c4-49c9-8f00-721a02863968
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
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