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Carex lurida Wahlenb.

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New Zealand
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Wahlenb.
Wahlenb.
1803
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Carex lurida Wahlenb.
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Carex lurida

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lurida

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Carex lurida Wahlenb.

Dense clumps up to 90 cm tall. Stems stout, erect, 3-angled, smooth or slightly scabrid on angles below inflorescence. Leaves 5-8 mm wide, ± = stems, flat, many small internal septa noticeable when dry; sheaths red to almost black. Inflorescence of large approximate spikes each with long leaf-like bract. Male spike 1, 5-6 cm × 2 mm, peduncle short; glumes narrow with long scabrid awns. Female spikes usually 3, upper sessile, rest shortly pedunculate, 2-4 × ± 1.5 cm, glumes much < utricles except at base of spike, narrow, hyaline, with an extremely long awn. Utricles 6-9 × 2-4 mm, strongly inflated, distinctly nerved, shining, smooth, greenish-brown, beak very narrow, bifid, c. ½ length of utricle. Stigmas 3. Nut trigonous, obovate, style strongly curved above base.

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Carex lurida Wahlenb.
Carex lurida Wahlenb.
Carex lurida Wahlenb.
Carex lurida Wahlenb.
Carex lurida Wahlenb.

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Carex lurida Wahlenb.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Carex lurida Wahlenb.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Carex lurida Wahlenb.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Carex lurida Wahlenb.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
Carex lurida Wahlenb.
United States

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1 January 2000
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