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Carex dissita Sol. ex Boott

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Carex dissita Sol. ex Boott (1853)
Carex dissita Sol. ex Boott

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Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
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Sol. ex Boott
Boott
1853
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Carex dissita Sol. ex Boott
species
Carex dissita

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dissita

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Carex dissita Sol. ex Boott

Bright green or reddish leafy tufts usually 45-80 cm high, stems drooping above. Female spikes c. 5, ± distant, ± pedunculate, ± 2 cm × 5 mm, usually dark reddish-brown. Stigmas 3.

Carex dissita Sol. ex Boott

Very shortly rhizomatous; green lfy tufts, drooping above, (15)–45–80–(100) cm. high. Culms 0.5–1.5–(1.7) mm. diam., trigonous, striated, edges smooth; basal sheaths light brown, grey-brown or often dark red-purple. Lvs > or < culms, 1.5–5 mm. wide, double-folded, bright green or yellow-green, or red-green with red margins and midvein red abaxially, margins finely scabrid. Spikes (4)–5–7–(8); terminal spike male, rarely with a few female fls at the top or with 1–2 very small male spikes at the base; remaining spikes female, us. with a few male fls at the base, more rarely male at the top, 0.5–2.5–(3) cm. × 4–6 mm., uppermost spikes erect on very short peduncles, ± distant, lowest spike often quite remote and drooping from a slender peduncle. Glumes (excluding awn) slightly < utricles, ovate, emarginate to almost entire, pale reddish green or light brown, to dark red-brown with paler margins, membr., midrib broad, pale brown, occ. bright red-purple or straw-coloured, with 3 distinct, almost white, nerves produced to a us. short scabrid mucro. Utricles 2–3 × c. 1.5 mm., biconvex, turgid, ovoid, yellow-brown at the base, red-purple to almost black above, abaxial face us. lighter coloured and more distinctly nerved than the other, margins occ. very finely scabrid below the beak; beak c. 0.5 mm. long, almost white, deeply bifid with divergent crura, orifice scabrid; stipe c. 0.3 mm. long. Stigmas 3. Nut c. 1.5 mm. long, trigonous, ovoid, light brown.

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Carex dissita Sol. ex Boott
Carex dissita Sol. ex Boott
Carex dissita Sol. ex Boott
Carex dissita Sol. ex Boott
Carex dissita Sol. ex Boott
Carex dissita Sol. ex Boott
Carex dissita Sol. ex Boott
Carex dissita Sol. ex Boott
Carex dissita Sol. ex Boott
Carex dissita Sol. ex Boott
Carex dissita var. monticola Kük.
Carex dissita Sol. ex Boott

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Carex dissita Sol. ex Boott
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Carex dissita Sol. ex Boott
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Egmont-Wanganui
Carex dissita Sol. ex Boott
[Not available]
Fiord
Carex dissita Sol. ex Boott
[Not available]
North Auckland
Carex dissita Sol. ex Boott
[Not available]
North-western
Carex dissita Sol. ex Boott
[Not available]
Ruahine-Cook
Carex dissita Sol. ex Boott
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Volcanic Plateau
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Ruahine-Cook

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60911c89-bb8a-4e99-92e7-c68b6f442339
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
20 April 2009
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