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Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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Petrie
Petrie
1923
ICN
Carex carsei Petrie
species
Carex carsei

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Poales
Cyperaceae
Carex
carsei

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Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.

Carex carsei Petrie

2n = 60
Healy, A. J.; Edgar, E. 1980: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. III. Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous and Spathaceous Monocotyledons. Government Printer, Wellington.

Carex carsei Petrie

Rhizomes far-extending; forming a continuous grassy sward usually 7-15 cm high. Inflorescence of 3-5 spikes clustered in a greenish head ± 1.5 cm long. Utricles 7-8.5 mm long, much > glumes, tapered to a long beak. Stigmas 3.
Moore, L.B.; Edgar, E. 1970: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. II. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Monocotyledones except Gramineae. Botany Division DSIR, Wellington.

Carex carsei Petrie

Rhizomatous, far-creeping, forming a continuous grassy sward in swampy places; rhizome c. 1 mm. diam., light brown or grey. Culms 2.5–8.5–(25) cm. × 0.5–1 mm., trigonous, or ± compressed below, stiff, erect, glab., enclosed to more than ½ their length by the grey or cream lf-sheaths. Lvs much > culms, 1–2.5 mm. wide, channelled, grass-like, yellow-green, linear, narrowed to a subobtuse tip, margins very finely scabrid. Infl. of 3–5 spikes, clustered together in a head, or the lowermost spike often remote; terminal spike male, small, sessile; remaining spikes female, overtopping the male, 1–1.5 cm. long, on longer peduncles. Glumes much < utricles, broadly ovate, ± acute, membr., faintly many-nerved, pale yellow-brown with a green, not markedly thickened midrib. Utricles 7–8.5 × c. 2 mm., plano-convex to subtrigonous, narrow-lanceolate, many-nerved, light green to greenish brown, margins glab., tapering very gradually above to a beak 3–3.5 mm. long, with an oblique, bifid, finely scabrid orifice; stipe c. 1 mm. long, only slightly contracted. Stigmas 3. Nut c. 2 mm. long, obtusely trigonous, obovoid, light yellow-brown, shining.

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Carex carsei Petrie
Carex carsei Petrie
Dawson, M.I. (2008)
Carex L.
Carex carsei Petrie
Carex carsei Petrie
de Lange, P.J.; Gosden, J. et al. (2024)
Carex carsei Petrie
Carex carsei Petrie
Carex carsei Petrie
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A. et al. (2004)
Carex carsei Petrie
Carex carsei Petrie
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A. et al. (2009)
Carex carsei Petrie
Carex carsei Petrie
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2013)
Carex carsei Petrie
Carex carsei Petrie
Carex carsei Petrie
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2018)
Carex carsei Petrie
Carex carsei Petrie
Carex carsei Petrie
Healy, A. J.; Edgar, E. (1980)
Carex carsei Petrie
Carex carsei Petrie
Moore, L.B.; Edgar, E. (1970)

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Carex carsei Petrie
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
2 Link to an external page
Carex carsei Petrie
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
13 Link to an external page
Carex carsei Petrie
New Zealand
Otago Land District
7 Link to an external page
Carex carsei Petrie
New Zealand
Southland Land District
2 Link to an external page
Carex carsei Petrie
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
14 Link to an external page
Carex carsei Petrie
New Zealand
Westland Land District
22 Link to an external page

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71ccc519-2f3b-40d5-b1f2-f7679474ef7d
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
23 April 2026
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