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Carex leporina L.

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L.
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1753
973
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Carex leporina L.
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Carex leporina

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leporina

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Dense tufts; rhizome short. Stems 20-60-(120) cm high, 3-angled, scabrid just below inflorescence. Leaves 1.5-3.5 mm wide, usually < stems, ± flat, ± soft, bright green, sheaths light brown. Inflorescence a compact ovoid head 2.5-4- (6) cm long, of 3-5- (11) approximate, sessile, light green to light brown spikes; bracts glume-like and inconspicuous or > inflorescence and ± setaceous. Spikes androgynous, male flowers at base. Glumes = or slightly < utricles, light brown with paler green to brown midrib, acute. Utricles 4-4.5 × ± 2 mm, ovoid, plano-convex, distinctly nerved, with winged margins almost covered by glumes, scabrid towards the tapered beak of ± 1 mm long. Stigmas 2. Nut plano-convex, ± oblong.

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Carex leporina L.
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Carex leporina L.
Austria
Carex leporina L.
Finland
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Germany
Carex leporina L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Carex leporina L.
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
Carex leporina L.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Carex leporina L.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Carex leporina L.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Carex leporina L.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Carex leporina L.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Carex leporina L.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Carex leporina L.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Carex leporina L.
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Carex leporina L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Carex leporina L.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
Carex leporina L.
Russian Federation
Carex leporina L.
Sweden
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United Kingdom
Carex leporina L.
United States
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
New Zealand
Southland Land District
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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21 May 2012
21 May 2012
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