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Isolepis reticularis Colenso

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Isolepis reticularis Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 18: 277 (1885 [1886])
Isolepis reticularis Colenso

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Colenso
Colenso
1885
1886
277
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Isolepis reticularis Colenso
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Isolepis reticularis

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reticularis

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Lax tufts carpeting the ground. Stems filiform, drooping, (4) -10-30 cm long. Leaves 1-3. Inflorescence a cluster of 1-3- (5) spikelets, often proliferous. Glumes acute, margins constricted at tip beside keel, lateral nerves conspicuous. Hypogynous bristles 0. Stamen 1. Style-branches 3. Nut trigonous, ± white.
Tufted, drooping, loosely carpeting the ground with lax, filiform, light green culms. Culms (4)–10–30 cm. long, < 0.5 mm. diam., smooth, compressed. Lvs 1–3, similar to culms but us. much shorter, lowermost lf reduced to a sheath 1–1.5 cm. long, red towards the base, often with a fine green mucro c. 0.3–0.5 mm. long. Infl. apparently lateral, of 1–3–(5) spikelets, often proliferous; bract subtending infl. us. much > spikelets, often filiform. Spikelets 2–5–(7) × 1–1.5–(1.7) mm., oblong-ovate, us. pale green tinged with red. Glumes 1 to slightly < 2 mm. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, pale straw-coloured, rather transparent, or sprinkled with dark red dots, or red-striped or almost black, margins entire, pinched in at the tip below the green, slightly excurrent keel, lateral nerves conspicuous. Hypog. bristles 0. Stamens 1. Style-branches 3. Nut c. 1 × 0.5 mm., from ⅔ length of glume to c. = glume, elliptical or obovoid, trigonous, pale straw-coloured, almost white, glossy, markedly apiculate, tip not dark.

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Isolepis inundata var. gracillimus (Cheeseman) W.R.B.Oliv.
Isolepis reticularis Colenso
Isolepis reticularis Colenso
Isolepis reticularis Colenso
Isolepis reticularis Colenso
Isolepis reticularis Colenso
Isolepis reticularis Colenso
Isolepis reticularis Colenso
Isolepis reticularis Colenso
Isolepis reticularis Colenso
Isolepis reticularis Colenso
Scirpus inundatus var. gracillimus Cheeseman
Isolepis reticularis Colenso
Scirpus reticularis (Colenso) Edgar
Isolepis reticularis Colenso

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1 January 2000
18 July 2006
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