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Carex decurtata Cheeseman

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Carex decurtata Cheeseman, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 24: 414 (1892)
Carex decurtata Cheeseman

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New Zealand
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Cheeseman
Cheeseman
1892
414
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Carex decurtata Cheeseman
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Carex decurtata

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decurtata

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Carex decurtata Cheeseman

Small, stiff, bright green or yellow-green tufts to 9 cm high. Leaves much > stems, rigid, concavo-convex. Inflorescence a dense head to 1 cm long, of 3-5 light brown spikes. Utricles faintly nerved. Stigmas 3.

Carex decurtata Cheeseman

Densely tufted; tufts very small, bright green or yellow-green. Culms 2–7 cm. long, enclosed by light to dark brown lf-sheaths almost to the top. Lvs much > culms, 3–9 cm. × 0.5–1 mm., concavo-convex, almost flat, bright green or yellow-green, rigid, coriac., linear, gradually tapering above, margins scabrid, tips subacute, incurved when dry; sheaths twice as broad as lamina, pale brown with membr. edges. Infl. a close-packed head of 3–5 spikes; terminal spike male; lower spikes female, 4–8 mm. long, ovoid or oblong-ovoid, greenish-brown, sessile or the lowest very shortly pedunculate; spikes subtended by lf-like bracts > infl. Glumes < or ± = utricles, ovate or almost orbicular, acute or with a longer scabrid awn, nerved, membr., red-brown with a pale centre and margin, or almost entirely pale straw-coloured. Utricles 2.5–3 × c. 1.5 mm., plano-convex to subtrigonous, broadly ovoid, light brown, turgid at the back, very faintly nerved, spreading, margins thickened, faintly serrate above; beak c. 0.5 mm. long, scabrid, orifice acutely cleft, scabrid; stipe absent, though utricle narrows towards the base. Stigmas 3. Nut c. 2 mm. long, trigonous, grey-brown.

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Carex cryptocarpa sensu Cheeseman
Carex decurtata Cheeseman
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Carex decurtata Cheeseman
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Carex decurtata Cheeseman
Carex decurtata Cheeseman
Carex decurtata Cheeseman
Carex decurtata Cheeseman

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Carex decurtata Cheeseman
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Eastern
Carex decurtata Cheeseman
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North Otago

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1 January 2000
16 June 2003
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