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
Nomenclature
C.B.Clarke
C.B.Clarke
1906
829
ICN
Carex pleiostachys C.B.Clarke
species
Carex pleiostachys
Classification
Descriptions
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.
Taxonomic concepts
Carex pleiostachys C.B.Clarke
Carex pleiostachys C.B.Clarke
Carex pleiostachys C.B.Clarke
Carex pleiostachys C.B.Clarke
Carex pleiostachys C.B.Clarke
Carex pleiostachys C.B.Clarke
Carex pleiostachys C.B.Clarke
Carex pleiostachys C.B.Clarke
Carex pleiostachys C.B.Clarke
Carex pleiostachys C.B.Clarke
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Metadata
94134261-1110-4eaa-913f-530ea891d34a
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
16 June 2003