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Eleocharis neozelandica C.B.Clarke ex Kirk

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Eleocharis neozelandica C.B.Clarke ex Kirk, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 26: 260 (1894)
Eleocharis neozelandica C.B.Clarke ex Kirk

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New Zealand
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C.B.Clarke ex Kirk
Kirk
1894
260
Eleocharis neo-zelandica
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Eleocharis neozelandica C.B.Clarke ex Kirk
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Eleocharis neozelandica

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neozelandica

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Eleocharis neozelandica C.B.Clarke ex Kirk

2n = 30

Eleocharis neozelandica C.B.Clarke ex Kirk

Rhizome far-creeping, dark brown, c. 1 mm. diam. Culms 3–6–(8) cm. × c. 0.5 mm., rigid, often curved, sheaths membr., lower purple-brown, upper with orifice slightly to very oblique and tapering to a sharp point. Spikelets 5–6–(8) × 1–4 mm., 4–10-fld, broadly ovoid, acute to obtuse, much broader than clum. Glumes 2.5–3.5 mm. long, ovate, obtuse, uninerved. Hypog. bristles 0. Stamens 3, or 2. Style 2-fid. Nut 1.5–2 × c. 1mm., rather asymmetrically obovate, biconvex, narrowed in lower half, smooth and shining, golden-brown, the persistent style-base very small, dark brown, with a prominent basal ring.

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Eleocharis neozelandica C.B.Clarke ex Kirk
Eleocharis neozelandica C.B.Clarke ex Kirk
Eleocharis neozelandica C.B.Clarke ex Kirk
Eleocharis neozelandica C.B.Clarke ex Kirk
Eleocharis neozelandica C.B.Clarke ex Kirk
Eleocharis neozelandica C.B.Clarke ex Kirk
Eleocharis neozelandica C.B.Clarke ex Kirk
Eleocharis neozelandica C.B.Clarke ex Kirk
Eleocharis neozelandica C.B.Clarke ex Kirk
Eleocharis neozelandica C.B.Clarke ex Kirk
Eleocharis neozelandica C.B.Clarke ex Kirk
Eleocharis neozelandica C.B.Clarke ex Kirk
Eleocharis neozelandica C.B.Clarke ex Kirk
Eleocharis neozelandica C.B.Clarke ex Kirk
Eleocharis neozelandica C.B.Clarke ex Kirk
Eleocharis neozelandica C.B.Clarke ex Kirk

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Eleocharis neozelandica C.B.Clarke ex Kirk
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9bcf6818-3ee4-4bb2-8b97-2d0d059a58f7
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
23 April 2004
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