Carex ternaria G.Forst. ex Boott
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Carex ternaria G.Forst. ex Boott in Hooker, Bot. Antarct. Voy. I. (Fl. Antarct.) Part I, 89 (1844)
Carex ternaria G.Forst. ex Boott
Nomenclature
G.Forst. ex Boott
Boott
1844
89
ICN
Carex ternaria G.Forst. ex Boott
species
Carex ternaria
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Carex ternaria G.Forst. ex Boott
Robust, rhizomatous, to 1.8 m high. Male spikes with long-awned glumes; female spikes in twos or threes at each inflorescence-node, red-brown with long-awned glumes, peduncles erect to pendulous. Utricles 2-3 mm long; beak minute. Stigmas 2.
Carex ternaria G.Forst. ex Boott
Rhizomatous; in robust, dark green clumps to 180 cm. tall. Rhizome 5–10 mm. diam., closely covered with red-brown sheaths. Culms 30–90–(150) cm. × 3–5 mm., triquetrous, scabrid; basal sheaths red-brown, margins shredding into fibres. Lvs > culms, 4–10–(17) mm. wide, double-folded, margins and keel finely scabrid. Spikes 7–13–(16), in both sexes varying from 1–8 cm. in length, distant, peduncles us. ± = or > spikes, stout, stiff and erect, or more slender and drooping; upper (2)–4–5–(7) spikes male, c. (4)–6 mm. diam. (excluding very prominent awns); lower spikes female, 5–8 mm. diam., lowest spikes geminate or ternate. Glumes of male spikes ± truncate to acute, with scabrid awns occ. up to 1 cm. long; glumes of female spikes (excluding awn) ± = utricles, narrow-lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, acute, red-brown, membr., with lighter brown, broad midrib produced to a finely scabrid awn up to 6 mm. long (awn occ. very dark red). Utricles c. 2–3 × 1.5–2 mm., plano-convex to biconvex, elliptic-obovoid, ± turgid, light yellow-brown, sts red-brown towards the base, nerves 5 or more on each face, margins smooth; beak c. 0.2–(0.4) mm. long, often lighter brown, very narrow, orifice glab., very slightly bifid; stipe c. 0.3 mm. long, narrow. Stigmas 2. Nut 1.5–2 mm. long, biconvex, obovoid, shining, brown.
Taxonomic concepts
Carex darwinii var. aristata sensu Kük.
Carex ternaria G.Forst. ex Boott
Carex martinii Petrie 1926
Carex ternaria G.Forst. ex Boott
Carex ternaria G.Forst. ex Boott
Carex ternaria Boott
Carex ternaria G.Forst. ex Boott
Carex ternaria G.Forst. ex Boott
Carex ternaria Boott
Carex ternaria G.Forst. ex Boott
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1 January 2000
24 December 2019