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Empodisma minus (Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson & D.F.Cutler

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Empodisma minus (Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson & D.F.Cutler, Kew Bull. 28: 383 (1974)
Empodisma minus (Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson & D.F.Cutler

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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(Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson & D.F.Cutler
Hook.f.
L.A.S.Johnson & D.F.Cutler
1974
383
ICN
species
Empodisma minus

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minus

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Empodisma minus (Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson & D.F.Cutler

2n = 24
Rhizome very stout compared to stems, erect, up to 8 mm. diam., covered with light brown, overlapping, scale-like sheaths and very thick tufts of brown hairs; roots ∞, 1–1.5 mm. diam., densely covered by persistent root hairs. Culms (8)–15–40–(120) cm. × (0.5)–1–1.5 mm., much-branched, flexuous, terete or grooved on one side, glab., bright green or bronze-brown, erect when short, procumbent when longer. Lvs reduced to mucronate sheaths, closely appressed to culm, distant, green at first, later dark brown, rigid, margin entire; the cilia protruding through the mouth of the sheath in tufts of white crinkled hairs arise from the outer scale of an axillary bud within the sheath; mucro long, fine, sharp-pointed, recurved or erect. Spikelets distant within uppermost sheaths. Male spikelets solitary or us. 2, 1 sessile and 1 stalked, within each hard, mucronate sheath, 1–4–(6)–fld; ♂, tepals 6, narrow-linear, acute; stamens 3, filaments slender, > tepals, anthers exserted beyond the floral bract. Female spikelets solitary within 1–3 uppermost, bearded, obtuse sheaths, 1-fld, with 2 imbricate, empty floral bracts; ♀, tepals 6–4, very small, hyaline; styles 3, free. Fr. a hard, oval nut, > persistent tepals, sessile on a thick receptacle. 2n = 24.

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Calorophus elongatus var. minor Hook.f.
Empodisma minus (Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson & D.F.Cutler
Calorophus elongatus var. minor Hook.f.
Empodisma minus (Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson & D.F.Cutler
Calorophus minor Hook.f.
Empodisma minus (Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson & D.F.Cutler
Empodisma minus (Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson & D.F.Cutler
Empodisma minus (Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson & D.F.Cutler
Empodisma minus (Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson & D.F.Cutler
Empodisma minus (Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson & D.F.Cutler
Empodisma minus (Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson & D.F.Cutler
Empodisma minus (Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson & D.F.Cutler
Empodisma minus (Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson & D.F.Cutler
Empodisma minus (Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson & D.F.Cutler
Empodisma minus (Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson & D.F.Cutler
Empodisma minus (Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson & D.F.Cutler
Empodisma minus (Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson & D.F.Cutler
Empodisma minus (Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson & D.F.Cutler
Empodisma minus (Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson & D.F.Cutler
Empodisma minus (Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson & D.F.Cutler
Empodisma minus (Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson & D.F.Cutler
Empodisma minus (Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson & D.F.Cutler
Hypolaena lateriflora var. minor (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Empodisma minus (Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson & D.F.Cutler
Hypolaena lateriflora var. minor (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Empodisma minus (Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson & D.F.Cutler

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Empodisma minus (Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson & D.F.Cutler
[Not available]
Empodisma minus (Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson & D.F.Cutler
[Not available]
North-western
Empodisma minus (Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson & D.F.Cutler
[Not available]
Sounds-Nelson
Empodisma minus (Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson & D.F.Cutler
[Not available]
Volcanic Plateau

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767a4115-980f-4362-be7b-47b6c93cce90
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
7 August 2012
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