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Scirpus cernuus Vahl

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Vahl
Vahl
1805
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Scirpus cernuus Vahl
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Scirpus cernuus

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cernuus

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Scirpus cernuus Vahl

Densely tufted or with short rhizome. Very variable in size; stems (2) -6-12- (20) cm high. Leaves many or few. Inflorescence of 1- (3) spikelets. Glumes usually red-brown with wide but not prominent green keels. Stamens 3. Style-branches 3. Nut plano-convex, rounded at tip and sharply apiculate, usually red-brown.

Scirpus cernuus Vahl

Variable in size, in dense tufts or with a shortly branched ascending rhizome. Culms (2)–6–12–(20) cm. long, us. c. 0.5 mm. diam. or less, but occ. up to 1 mm. diam. Lvs 1–4 or 0, ± = culms, or much < culms, c. 0.5 mm. wide, or often reduced to shortly mucronate sheaths; sheaths dark red-purple at the base, lighter brown towards the truncate orifice. Infl. of 1–(2–3) spikelets; subtending bract ± = or us. slightly > spikelets, 0.3–0.7–(2.5) cm. long, setaceous or lf-like, caducous. Spikelets 2–5 × (1)–1.5–2.5 mm., elliptical, obtuse, almost white, or green, or with red-brown markings. Glumes 1–2 mm. long, broadly ovate, only slightly concave with keel not prominent, obtuse, green to very pale straw coloured, or with red-brown markings at the sides, margins entire, membr., rounded towards the tip, or with the keel at tip of glume somewhat thickened and ± excurrent, lateral nerves conspicuous. Hypog. bristles 0. Stamens 3, rarely 2 or 1 in occasional glumes. Style-branches 3. Nut us. slightly < 1 mm. long, but occ. slightly > 1 mm., c. 0.5 mm. wide, obovoid or occ. elliptical-obovoid, plano-convex, or subtrigonous and obtusely angled at the back, rounded at the tip and sharply apiculate, red-brown or dark grey at maturity, minutely but very distinctly reticulate.

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Scirpus cernuus Vahl
Scirpus cernuus Vahl
Scirpus cernuus Vahl
Scirpus cernuus Vahl

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Scirpus cernuus Vahl
New Zealand
Scirpus cernuus Vahl
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Scirpus cernuus Vahl
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Scirpus cernuus Vahl
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Scirpus cernuus Vahl
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Scirpus cernuus Vahl
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Scirpus cernuus Vahl
United Kingdom

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85b3525b-2793-4d84-83f9-20b4d3d0fdf5
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Names_Plants
24 June 2002
27 June 2022
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