Carex sectoides (Kük.) Edgar
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Carex sectoides (Kük.) Edgar in Moore & Edgar, Fl. N. Zeal. 2, 276 (1970)
Carex sectoides (Kük.) Edgar
Nomenclature
(Kük.) Edgar
Kük.
Edgar
1970
276
ICN
species
Carex sectoides
Classification
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Carex sectoides (Kük.) Edgar
2n = 64–68
Carex sectoides (Kük.) Edgar
Harshly-scabrid tussocks on trunk-like bases. Inflorescence usually to 25 cm long with numerous stiff crowded branches ± 3 cm long. Spikes numerous, sessile, red-brown, male flowers at top. Utricles ± nerveless, dark brown, shining. Stigmas 2.
Carex sectoides (Kük.) Edgar
Tussocks forming trunk-like bases up to 1 m. × 50 cm. Culms (15)–40–100 cm. × 2–3 mm., triquetrous, very sharply scabrid, robust, curved over; basal sheaths grey-brown. Lvs = or < culms, 5–8 mm. wide, channelled, with strongly scabrid margins. Infl. a panicle 7–25–(40) cm. long, with stiff, crowded branchlets c. 3 cm. long, the lowermost occ. rather distant. Spikes , ± sessile, red-brown, c. 4–5-fld, male fls at the top. Glumes > utricles, ovate-lanceolate, acute or lower glumes of spike awned, brownish-hyaline, faintly nerved, with a paler brown thickened midrib. Utricles 2.5–3.5 × 1–1.5 mm., unequally biconvex, elliptic-ovoid, smooth on curved face, very faintly nerved on flatter face, light yellow-brown, later dark brown, ± shining; beak c. 1 mm. long, shortly bifid, with green, winged, strongly scabrid margins; stipe c. 0.5 mm. long. Stigmas 2. Nut slightly < 2 mm. long, biconvex, narrow-obovoid, pale grey almost white.
Taxonomic concepts
Carex appressa var. sectoides Kük. 1909
Carex sectoides (Kük.) Edgar
Carex secta var. sectoides (Kük.) Cheeseman 1925
Carex sectoides (Kük.) Edgar
Carex sectoides (Kük.) Edgar
Carex sectoides (Kük.) Edgar
Carex sectoides (Kük.) Edgar
Carex sectoides (Kük.) Edgar
Carex sectoides (Kük.) Edgar
Carex sectoides (Kük.) Edgar
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7681b491-8418-4f61-919d-d47e70b730c9
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1 January 2000
24 December 2019