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Carex longebrachiata Boeckeler

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Carex longebrachiata Boeckeler (1877)
Carex longebrachiata Boeckeler

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Boeckeler
Boeckeler
1877
ICN
Carex longebrachiata Boeckeler
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Carex longebrachiata

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longebrachiata

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Carex longebrachiata Boeckeler

Robust, harsh, dense tussocks 30-90 cm high; tillers intravaginal. Stems ± terete, slender, smooth, drooping. Leaves 3-5 mm wide, ± = stems, harshly scabrid, strongly keeled, Y-shaped in cross-section, bluish-green, almost white at base above the red-brown sheath. Inflorescence a drooping panicle with long-peduncled spikes in fascicles of 3-4 from each node; bracts leaf-like, conspicuous but < inflorescence. Male spike 1, 4-5 cm × c. 1.5 mm, invariably with a few female flowers interspersed, shortly pedunculate; glumes ± oblong, acute to mucronate. Female spikes 1.5-6 cm × 3-4 mm, on filiform drooping peduncles much > spikes, flowers up to 30 in longest spikes, lax; glumes < utricles, 3.5-4.5 mm long, ovate, light brown, keel scabrid, mucro short. Utricles c. 6 × 1.5 mm, distinctly nerved, margins strongly scabrid, trigonous, fusiform beak to 2 mm long, bifid, stipe long, ± 1.5 mm. Stigmas 3. Nut trigonous, obovoid.

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Carex longebrachiata Boeckeler
Carex longebrachiata Boeck.
Carex longebrachiata Boeckeler
Carex longebrachiata Boeckeler
Carex longebrachiata Boeck.
Carex longebrachiata Boeckeler
Carex longebrachiata Boeck.
Carex longebrachiata Boeckeler
Carex longifolia R.Br.
Carex longebrachiata Boeckeler

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Carex longebrachiata Boeckeler
Australia
Carex longebrachiata Boeckeler
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
Carex longebrachiata Boeckeler
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Carex longebrachiata Boeckeler
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Carex longebrachiata Boeckeler
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Carex longebrachiata Boeckeler
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Carex longebrachiata Boeckeler
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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52b60c4d-ed11-4616-a921-3cf8754f1294
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
28 November 2013
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