Carex wakatipu Petrie
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Carex wakatipu Petrie, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 14: 363 (1882)
Carex wakatipu Petrie
Nomenclature
Petrie
Petrie
1882
363
ICN
Carex wakatipu Petrie
species
Carex wakatipu
Classification
Descriptions
Carex wakatipu Petrie
Tufts dark green, reddish-green or yellow-green, very variable, to ± 30 cm high, stems much < to much > leaves. Female spikes c. 4, crowded at same level, 1-2 cm long, light, brown. Stigmas 2.
Carex wakatipu Petrie
Shortly rhizomatous; very variable in size, tufts dark green, reddish green or yellow-green. Culms 4–30–(50) cm. × c. 1 mm., subtrigonous, glab. or occ. faintly scabrid below infl., sunk among the lvs or sometimes elongating far beyond the lvs and drooping; basal sheaths dark brown or red-purple, nerves ± distinct. Lvs 2–4 mm. wide, ± erect or spreading, channelled, margins scarcely scabrid at base with well-spaced teeth towards tip. Spikes 4–5–(6), closely packed, at about the same level on the culm; terminal spike male, much more slender than and us. > female spikes; female spikes male at the base and occ. at the top, 1–2 cm. × c. 5 mm., shortly pedunculate. Glumes slightly < utricles, broadly ovate, us. emarginate, sometimes almost entire, occ. red-brown, us. very light brown flecked with darker brown striae, membr., midrib very broad, very pale brown, produced to a short scabrid awn. Utricles 2.5–3 × c. 2 mm., plano-convex or unequally biconvex, broadly elliptic-ovoid, pale brown flecked with red-brown striae below, or darker brown throughout, occ. almost black, turgid, nerved, margins us. glab.; beak c. 0.3 mm. long with a broad, ciliate, shortly bifid orifice; stipe c. 0.2 mm. long. Stigmas 2. Nut slightly > 1.5 mm. long, biconvex, almost orbicular.
Taxonomic concepts
Carex wakatipu Petrie
Carex wakatipu Petrie
Carex wakatipu Petrie
Carex wakatipu Petrie
Carex wakatipu Petrie
Carex wakatipu Petrie
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Etymology
The epithet wakatipu refers to the type locality (Ben Lomdon, near Queenstown), which is adjacent to Lake Wakatipu.
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scientific name
Names_Plants
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16 June 2003