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Carex pleiostachys C.B.Clarke

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Carex pleiostachys C.B.Clarke in Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl., ed. 2, 829 (1906)
Carex pleiostachys C.B.Clarke

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New Zealand
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C.B.Clarke
C.B.Clarke
1906
829
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Carex pleiostachys C.B.Clarke
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Carex pleiostachys

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pleiostachys

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Carex pleiostachys C.B.Clarke

Dense, leafy, pale green tufts to 40 cm high. Leaves concavo-convex, tips curled. Female spikes c. 5, lowest distant and pedunculate, 1-2 cm × ± 5 mm, light brown. Utricles glabrous, long-beaked. Stigmas 3.

Carex pleiostachys C.B.Clarke

Tufts dense, lfy, pale green. Culms 10–30 cm. × 0.5–1 mm., terete, glab.; basal sheaths light brown, occ. slightly reddish. Lvs us. noticeably > culms, 1–1.5 mm. wide, ± concave on upper surface, often with a median groove, convex on lower surface, margins scabrid, tips very much curled; sheaths very long, up to ½ length of lamina. Spikes 5–7; terminal spike male; remaining spikes female, occ. male at the base, 1–2 cm. × 4–7 mm., uppermost spikes ± approximate, sessile, lower spikes shortly pedunculate, the lowest more distant from the others; lf-like bracts subtending spikes very long, with curled tips. Glumes (excluding awn) slightly < utricles, ovate, acute or slightly emarginate, membr., cream with light brown striae, midrib even paler, produced to a slightly scabrid awn of variable length. Utricles 3–4 × c. 1 mm., subtrigonous, narrow-lanceolate, green to greenish brown with white to pale brown nerves, becoming indistinct at maturity, margins quite glab.; beak tapering very gradually, 1–1.5 mm. long, orifice bifid, glab.; stipe c. 0.5 mm. long. Stigmas 3. Nut c. 2 mm. long, trigonous, oblong-obovoid, dark brown.

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Carex pleiostachys C.B.Clarke
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94134261-1110-4eaa-913f-530ea891d34a
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
16 June 2003
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