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Isolepis inundata R.Br.

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Isolepis inundata R.Br., Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland. 222 (1810)
Isolepis inundata R.Br.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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R.Br.
R.Br.
1810
222
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Isolepis inundata R.Br.
species
Isolepis inundata

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inundata

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Tufted. Stems rather rigid, 6-30- (50) cm high. Leaves 1- (3) or reduced to red-brown basal sheaths. Inflorescence a cluster of (1) -3-6- (10) spikelets, often proliferous. Glumes obtuse, flattened towards tip. Stamen 1. Style-branches 3. Nut distinctly trigonous, usually white.
Culms 6–30–(50) cm. × (0.4)–0.7–1.2–(1.8) mm., tufted, ∞, erect, often rather rigid, terete, bright green. Lvs 1, or rarely 2–3 at the base of the culm, < 1 mm. wide; frequently reduced to a single, mucronate, red basal bract, mucro us. short. Infl. an apparently lateral, solitary head of (1)–3–6–(10) crowded spikelets, often proliferous with 1–3 slender branchlets each terminated by a smaller head of spikelets, subtending bract us. slightly > spikelets. Spikelets (2)–3–4–(5) × 1.5–2.5–(3) mm., ovate or oblong-ovate, often dark red-purple. Glumes 1.5–2 mm. long, oblong-obovate, obtuse or ± acute, with a large dark red to black patch on either side of the pale green keel, with ∞ distinct, light brown nerves, margins entire, white and membr., flattened at the tip beside the keel. Hypog. bristles 0. Stamens 1, very rarely 2. Style-branches 3, or rarely 2–3. Nut c. 1 × 0.5 mm., slightly > ½ length of glume, conspicuously trigonous or occ. biconvex, distinctly mucronate, pale strawcoloured, almost white, occ. grey-brown, surface distinctly reticulate.

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Isolepis conspersa Nees
Isolepis inundata R.Br.
Isolepis gunnii Steud.
Isolepis inundata R.Br.
Isolepis inundata R.Br.
Isolepis inundata R.Br.
Isolepis inundata R.Br.
Isolepis inundata R.Br.
Isolepis inundata R.Br.
Isolepis inundata R.Br.
Isolepis inundata R.Br.
Isolepis inundata R.Br.
Isolepis inundata R.Br.
Isolepis multinervosa Boeckeler
Isolepis inundata R.Br.
Isolepis propinqua R.Br.
Isolepis inundata R.Br.
Isolepis propinqua Nees
Isolepis inundata R.Br.
Isolepis urvillei Steud.
Isolepis inundata R.Br.
Scirpus cartilagineus var. propinqua (Nees) Benth.
Isolepis inundata R.Br.
Scirpus conspersus (Nees) Boeckeler
Isolepis inundata R.Br.
Scirpus conspersus (Nees) Laing
Isolepis inundata R.Br.
Scirpus inundatus (R.Br.) Poir.
Isolepis inundata R.Br.
Scirpus inundatus (R.Br.) Spreng.
Isolepis inundata R.Br.
Scirpus urvillei (Steud.) Boeckeler
Isolepis inundata R.Br.

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Isolepis inundata R.Br.
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94c5bc7b-b159-461a-9a8d-d1b1caeb918b
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
26 July 2006
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