Carex virgata Sol. ex Boott
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Carex virgata Sol. ex Boott in Hooker, Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 282 (1853)
Carex virgata Sol. ex Boott
Nomenclature
Sol. ex Boott
Boott
1853
282
ICN
Carex virgata Sol. ex Boott
species
Carex virgata
Classification
Subordinates
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Descriptions
Carex virgata Sol. ex Boott
Dense harshly scabrid tussocks to 1.2 m high. Inflorescence a narrow panicle 10-26 cm long with stiff erect branches. Spikes numerous, sessile, light grey- or yellow-brown, male flowers at top. Utricles greyish-brown, nerved. Stigmas 2.
Carex virgata Sol. ex Boott
Rhizomatous; clumps dense. Rhizome 5 mm. diam. Culms 15–90 cm. × c. 1.5 mm., trigonous, grooved, harshly scabrid; basal sheaths shining, grey-brown to dark brown almost black. Lvs much > culms, 50–120 cm. × (1.5)–2–4–(4.5) mm., channelled, light green, harsh and rigid, keel and margins strongly scabrid. Infl. 10–26 cm. long, a narrow panicle with stiff erect branchlets, the lowermost quite distant. Spikes , androgynous, 4–6 mm. long, sessile, grey- or yellow-brown, male fls terminal, lower spikes on each branchlet subtended by a pale membr. bract with a long scabrid awn often > spike. Glume ± = or slightly < utricles, membr., ovate, acute, dull brown, with a prominent pale midrib often scabrid in lowermost glumes. Utricles 2–2.5 × c. 1 mm., plano-convex, ovoid, light grey with distinct brown nerves; tapering to a brown beak c. 0.5 mm. long with a bifid orifice and conspicuously denticulate margins; abruptly contracted to a narrow stipe c. 0.2 mm. long. Stigmas 2. Nut slightly > 1 mm. long, biconvex, ovoid, dark brown.
Taxonomic concepts
Carex appressa var. virgata (Boot) Kük.
Carex appressa var. virgata (Boot) Kük.
Carex virgata Sol. ex Boott
Carex paniculata var. virgata (Boott) Cheeseman
Carex virgata Sol. ex Boott
Carex virgata Sol. ex Boott
Carex virgata Sol. ex Boott
Carex virgata Sol. ex Boott
Carex virgata Sol. ex Boott
Carex virgata Sol. ex Boott
Carex virgata Sol. ex Boott
Carex virgata Sol. ex Boott
Carex virgata Sol. ex Boott
Carex virgata Sol. ex Boott
Carex virgata Sol. ex Boott
Carex virgata Sol. ex Boott
Carex virgata Sol. ex Boott
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578e0700-fee9-445e-9666-b6b4226792d7
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1 January 2000
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