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Carex acicularis Boott (1853)
Carex acicularis Boott
Healy, A. J.; Edgar, E. 1980: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. III. Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous and Spathaceous Monocotyledons. Government Printer, Wellington.

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Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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Boott
Boott
1853
ICN
Carex acicularis Boott
species
Carex acicularis

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Poales
Cyperaceae
Carex
acicularis

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Healy, A. J.; Edgar, E. 1980: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. III. Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous and Spathaceous Monocotyledons. Government Printer, Wellington.

Carex acicularis Boott

Small tufts usually 4-7 cm high; rhizomes short. Leaves setaceous. Inflorescence a solitary dark brown spike ± 5 mm long, lowermost glumes bract-like. Utricles with long scabrid beak; rhachilla enclosed. Stigmas 3.
Moore, L.B.; Edgar, E. 1970: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. II. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Monocotyledones except Gramineae. Botany Division DSIR, Wellington.

Carex acicularis Boott

Very shortly rhizomatous. Culms (2)–4–7–(20) cm. × c. 0.5 mm., terete, smooth; basal sheaths chestnut-brown or yellow-brown. Lvs slightly < culms, c. 0.5 mm. wide, setaceous, plano-convex or canaliculate, strict, dark green, margins scabrid towards the obtuse tip. Infl. a solitary spike, c. 5 mm. long, the lowermost glumes bract-like, female fls (2)–5–6, equalling or overtopping the male fls. Glumes > or = utricles, ovate, acute, brown, midrib green. Utricles (3)–3.5–5 × c. 1 mm., lanceolate, smooth; tapering to a dark beak 1–2 mm. long, with scabrid margins and oblique orifice; stipe c. 1 mm. long. Stigmas 3. Nut c. 2 mm. long, oblong-trigonous, smooth. Rhachilla enclosed within utricle, = or slightly > nut, linear, margins scabrid, apex with a minute red appendage.

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Carex acicularis Boott
Carex acicularis Boott
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2013)
Carex acicularis Boott
Carex acicularis Boott
Carex acicularis Boott
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2018)
Carex acicularis Boott
Carex acicularis Boott
Carex acicularis Boott
Healy, A. J.; Edgar, E. (1980)
Carex acicularis Boott
Carex acicularis Boott
Moore, L.B.; Edgar, E. (1970)
Carex inconspicua Colenso
Carex inconspicua Colenso
Moore, L.B.; Edgar, E. (1970)
Carex acicularis Boott

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Carex acicularis Boott
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
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Carex acicularis Boott
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
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Carex acicularis Boott
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
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Carex acicularis Boott
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
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Carex acicularis Boott
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
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Carex acicularis Boott
New Zealand
Otago Land District
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Carex acicularis Boott
New Zealand
Southland Land District
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Carex acicularis Boott
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
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Carex acicularis Boott
New Zealand
Westland Land District
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94ae1857-bee8-4022-bb9d-1a4897a1695d
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
29 May 2025
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