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Isolepis basilaris Hook.f.

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Isolepis basilaris Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. (1867)
Isolepis basilaris Hook.f.

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Hook.f.
Hook.f.
1867
ICN
Isolepis basilaris Hook.f.
species
Isolepis basilaris

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basilaris

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Dwarf, dense, moss-like tufts to ± 5 cm high with stems hidden among numerous leaves. Inflorescence of 1- (2) pale green spikelets. Stamens usually 2. Style-branches usually 2. Nut minute, suborbicular, plano-convex, almost black.
Dwarf, dense, moss-like tufts 3–9 cm. across, bright green above, reddish brown below. Rhizome < 1 mm. diam., much branched; sheathing bract at each node loose, membr., with red nerves. Culms < 1.5 rarely up to 3 cm. long, < 0.5 mm. diam. Lvs 1–2 on each branch, much > culms, 0.5–4–(6) cm. long, < 0.5 mm. wide, setaceous, plano-convex; sheath membr., red-nerved. Infl. an apparently lateral, single spikelet, or rarely 2, hidden among the lvs, pale green, occ. with red markings; subtending bract lf-like, channelled, very much > culm from which it arises and almost = lvs. Spikelets 2.5–3.5 × 1.5–2 mm., elliptical or oblong. Glumes 1–2 mm. long, ovate, elliptical, obtuse, white and membr., or with patches of red on the sides; keel thick, green, occ. slightly excurrent. Hypog. bristles 0. Stamens 2, rarely 3. Style-branches 2, occ. 3. Nut c. 0.5 × 0.5 mm., c. ⅔ length of glume, obovoid to suborbicular, plano-convex, dorsally rounded, noticeably apiculate, red-brown to dark brown, almost black, surface often shining but distinctly reticulate.

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Isolepis basilaris Hook.f.
Isolepis basilaris Hook.f.
Isolepis basilaris Hook.f.
Isolepis basilaris Hook.f.
Isolepis basilaris Hook.f.
Isolepis basilaris Hook.f.
Isolepis basilaris Hook.f.
Isolepis basilaris Hook.f.
Isolepis basilaris Hook.f.
Isolepis basilaris Hook.f.
Isolepis basilaris Hook.f.
Isolepis basilaris Hook.f.
Isolepis basilaris Hook.f.
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Isolepis basilaris Hook.f.
Scirpus basilaris (Hook.f.) C.B.Clarke
Isolepis basilaris Hook.f.

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Isolepis basilaris Hook.f.
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47295764-5d02-45c6-9bac-64961a034096
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
26 June 2006
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