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Carex vulpinoidea Michx.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Michx.
Michx.
1803
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Carex vulpinoidea Michx.
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Carex vulpinoidea

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vulpinoidea

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Carex vulpinoidea Michx.

Dense stiff clumps, 50-80 cm high. Stems firm, erect, sharply 3-angled, harshly scabrid on angles just below inflorescence. Leaves usually > stems, 2-5 mm wide, ± flat, strongly scabrid; sheaths long, membranous, transversely-rugulose for 2-4 cm below mouth. Inflorescence a very dense, ± cylindrical, ± lobed, spiciform panicle 6-10 × ± 1 cm, green to light brown. Spikes numerous, sessile, very crowded above, lower ones more distant with setaceous bracts < inflorescence, male flowers at top of spikes, female flowers densely crowded. Glumes much < utricles, ovate with far excurrent midrib. Utricles 2-2.5 × 1.5 mm, ovate, plano-convex, faintly nerved on convex face, tapering to a narrow bifid beak ± 1 mm long with sparsely scabrid margins. Stigmas 2. Nut almost spherical, biconvex.

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Carex vulpinoidea Michx.
Carex vulpinoidea Michx.

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Carex vulpinoidea Michx.
Canada
Carex vulpinoidea Michx.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Carex vulpinoidea Michx.
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
Carex vulpinoidea Michx.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Carex vulpinoidea Michx.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Carex vulpinoidea Michx.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Carex vulpinoidea Michx.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Carex vulpinoidea Michx.
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Carex vulpinoidea Michx.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Carex vulpinoidea Michx.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
Carex vulpinoidea Michx.
United Kingdom
Carex vulpinoidea Michx.
United States

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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
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