Download Copy a link to this page Cite this record

Carex crispa K.A.Ford

Scientific name record
Names_Plants record source
Is NZ relevant
This is the current name
This record has collections
This record has descriptions
This is indigenous
Threat status: Not threatened
Show more

Click to collapse Details Info

Carex crispa K.A.Ford in Global Carex Group, Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 179: 30 (2015)
Carex crispa K.A.Ford

Click to collapse Biostatus Info

Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

Click to collapse Nomenclature Info

K.A.Ford
K.A.Ford
2015
30
replacement name
ICN
Carex crispa K.A.Ford
species
Carex crispa

Click to collapse Classification Info

crispa

Click to collapse Descriptions Info

Caespitose. Culms 10–18–(30) cm. × c. 0.5 mm., subtrigonous or terete, glab.; basal bracts dull brown. Lvs 4–7 per culm, < culms, c. 1 mm. wide, ± stiff, involute, or flatter and up to 1.5 mm. wide, bright green, us. curled at the tips, faintly scabrid on margins and adaxial surface towards lf-tip. Spikes 3–5–(5.5) cm. × 2–5 mm., occ. bracteate, female fls (6)–10–20, rather close-set, internodes 1–3 mm. long. Glumes much > utricles at base of spike, = utricles above, deciduous, ovate, acute or acuminate, membr., light brown with a green to brown midrib. Utricles 4–5 × 1–1.5 mm., trigonous, ovate, widely spreading when ripe, green to light brown, shining, the lateral nerve always prominent, otherwise smooth or faintly nerved, contracted below to a conspicuous stipe slightly > 1 mm. long, slightly tapered above to a beak c. 1 mm. long.

Click to collapse Taxonomic concepts Info

Carex crispa K.A.Ford
Carex crispa K.A.Ford
Carex crispa K.A.Ford
Carex crispa K.A.Ford
Carex crispa K.A.Ford
Carex crispa K.A.Ford
Uncinia involuta Hamlin
Carex crispa K.A.Ford

Click to collapse Collections Info

Carex crispa K.A.Ford
[Not available]
Carex crispa K.A.Ford
[Not available]
Egmont-Wanganui
Carex crispa K.A.Ford
[Not available]
Ruahine-Cook

Click to collapse Metadata Info

403f280a-6a6a-4d1e-91e9-0caf4d225dd8
scientific name
Names_Plants
19 August 2015
19 August 2015
Click to go back to the top of the page
Top