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Marsippospermum gracile (Hook.f.) Buchenau

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Marsippospermum gracile (Hook.f.) Buchenau (1879)
Marsippospermum gracile (Hook.f.) Buchenau

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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(Hook.f.) Buchenau
Hook.f.
Buchenau
1879
ICN
species
Marsippospermum gracile

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gracile

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Marsippospermum gracile (Hook.f.) Buchenau

Densely tufted. Rhizome c. 5 mm. diam., us. horizontal in plants from South Id, and ascending in plants from Auckland and Campbell Is. Stems (8)–12–30–(40) cm. × c. 0.5 mm., very closely crowded on the rhizome; basal bracts , reddish brown, the upper conspicuously mucronate. Lvs ± = or much > flowering stems, slightly < 1 mm. wide, terete, rigid, striated, bright green, shining. Fl. 1.5–3 cm. long; single subtending bract inconspicuous, < 3 mm. long, membr., pale cream, tip obtuse. Tepals 6, unequal, linear-subulate, acute, pale brown with membr. margin. Stamens 6, c. ⅔ length of mature capsule; anthers much > filaments, connective apiculate. Capsule c. ½ length of tepals, linear-oblong, coriac., chestnut-brown, mucronate, dehiscing longitudinally towards the apex. Seeds c. 2.5 mm. long, oblong-elliptical, straw-coloured, shining, tails white, unequal in length.

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Juncus hookeridis Steud.
Marsippospermum gracile (Hook.f.) Buchenau
Marsippospermum gracile (Hook.f.) Buchenau
Marsippospermum gracile (Hook.f.) Buchenau
Marsippospermum gracile (Hook.f.) Buchenau
Marsippospermum gracile (Hook.f.) Buchenau
Marsippospermum gracile (Hook.f.) Buchenau
Marsippospermum gracile (Hook.f.) Buchenau
Marsippospermum gracile (Hook.f.) Buchenau
Marsippospermum gracile (Hook.f.) Buchenau
Marsippospermum gracile var. novae-zelandiae (Buchanan) Buchenau
Marsippospermum gracile (Hook.f.) Buchenau
Rostkovia gracilis Hook.f.
Marsippospermum gracile (Hook.f.) Buchenau
Rostkovia novae-zelandiae Buchanan
Marsippospermum gracile (Hook.f.) Buchenau

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Marsippospermum gracile (Hook.f.) Buchenau
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Marsippospermum gracile (Hook.f.) Buchenau
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South Otago

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912bcebb-c1d3-44c8-88c3-e4becdcbe4b8
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
31 March 2016
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