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Carex flacca Schreb.

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Schreb.
Schreb.
1771
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Carex flacca Schreb.
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Carex flacca

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flacca

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Carex flacca Schreb.

Rather stiff blue-green tufts; rhizome far-extending. Stems (10) -25-50 cm high, ± terete to ± 3-angled, smooth. Leaves 2-3 mm wide, < stems, double-folded to ± flat, stiff, often curved, rather harshly scabrid; sheaths dark brown, often bright red-tinged. Inflorescence 5-10 cm long, of 4-6 dark brown, pedunculate spikes, terminal (1) -2-3 male, rest female, often a remote lowermost spike on an extremely long peduncle from near base of stem; subtending bracts leaf-like, ± = or > inflorescence. Male spikes ± 3 cm × 1.5 mm; glumes narrow, obtuse, dark brown with lighter brown midrib not reaching tip of glume. Female spikes 2-4.5 cm× ± 4 mm, often male at top; glumes < utricles, oblong-ovate, subobtuse, dark purple-brown with broad, lighter green to brown midrib. Utricles ± 2-2.5 × 1.5 mm, obovoid to ± orbicular, often inflated, papillose, red-tinged throughout or green with red patches, beak minute, orifice truncate, dark red. Stigmas 3. Nut ellipsoid, trigonous.

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Carex flacca Schreb.
Carex flacca Schreb.
Carex flacca Schreb.
Carex flacca Schreb.
Carex flacca Schreb.
Carex flacca Schreb.
Carex flacca Schreb.

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Carex flacca Schreb.
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Carex flacca Schreb.
Australia
Carex flacca Schreb.
Austria
Carex flacca Schreb.
Belgium
Carex flacca Schreb.
Czech Republic
Carex flacca Schreb.
France
Carex flacca Schreb.
Germany
Carex flacca Schreb.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Carex flacca Schreb.
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
Carex flacca Schreb.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Carex flacca Schreb.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Carex flacca Schreb.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Carex flacca Schreb.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Carex flacca Schreb.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Carex flacca Schreb.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Carex flacca Schreb.
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Carex flacca Schreb.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Carex flacca Schreb.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
Carex flacca Schreb.
Poland
Carex flacca Schreb.
Romania
Carex flacca Schreb.
Sweden
Carex flacca Schreb.
U.K.
Carex flacca Schreb.
United Kingdom
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
New Zealand
Otago Land District
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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49516527-fb38-43cc-a9f2-9e83ceebd86e
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1 January 2000
14 March 2016
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