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Carex spicata Huds.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Huds.
Huds.
1762
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Carex spicata Huds.
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Carex spicata

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spicata

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Carex spicata Huds.

Stems to 70 cm high, slender. Leaves to 3 mm wide, flat; sheaths often tinged with reddish-purple; ligule ± 4 mm long, much longer than broad. Inflorescence ± 3 cm long, of up to 8 sessile greenish-brown contiguous spikes; bracts, if present, setaceous. Spikes androgynous, male flowers at top. Glumes < utricles, ovate, acute to acuminate, reddish-brown with green midrib. Utricles 4-5 × 2 mm, narrowly ovate, greenish, corky and often furrowed when dry but not nerved at base, gradually tapered to a beak ± 1.5 mm long with finely scabrid margins. Stigmas 2. Nut broad-oblong.

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Carex spicata Huds.
Carex spicata Huds.

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Carex spicata Huds.
France
Carex spicata Huds.
Italy
Carex spicata Huds.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Carex spicata Huds.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Carex spicata Huds.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Carex spicata Huds.
Switzerland
Carex spicata Huds.
United Kingdom

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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
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