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Uncinia hookeri Boott

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Uncinia hookeri Boott in Hooker, Bot. Antarct. Voy. I. (Fl. Antarct.) Part I, 91, t. 51 (1844)

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Boott
Boott
1844
91, t. 51
ICN
Uncinia hookeri Boott
species
Uncinia hookeri

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hookeri

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Uncinia hookeri Boott

Dense, stiff tufts from a slender rhizome c. 1mm. diam. Culms 4–10–(25) cm. × c. 0.5 mm., glab.; basal bracts dark brown. Lvs 5–9 per culm, much > flowering culms but us. only slightly < fruiting culms, 1.5–2 mm. wide, dark green, rigid, involute, scabrid on margins and upper surface towards tip. Spikes (1)–2–3.5 cm. × c. 3 mm., greenish brown, female fls c. 10–20, crowded towards top of spike with internodes 1–3 mm. long, more distant in lower third of spike with internodes up to 4 mm. long. Glumes ± = or slightly > utricles, deciduous, lanceolate, acute, membr., light or dark brown, us. with a prominent green midrib and two very dark brown lateral veins, margin pale brown. Utricles 4–5 mm. long, slightly < 1 mm. diam., trigonous or subtrigonous, oblong or lanceolate, light green, nerved, occ. only faintly so on the two abaxial surfaces, slightly contracted at the base to a stipe c. 1 mm. long, beak 1–1.5 mm. long; strongly spreading when ripe.

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Uncinia hookeri Boott
Uncinia hookeri Boott
Uncinia hookeri Boott
Uncinia hookeri Boott
Uncinia hookeri Boott
Uncinia hookeri Boott
Uncinia hookeri Boott
Uncinia hookeri Boott
Uncinia hookeri Boott
Uncinia hookeri Boott
Uncinia hookeri Boott
Uncinia hookeri Boott
Uncinia hookeri Boott

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Uncinia hookeri Boott
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4da66a73-e811-41c2-8845-d8d00eb7bdaf
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
19 August 2015
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