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Juncus kraussii subsp. australiensis (Buchenau) Snogerup

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Juncus kraussii subsp. australiensis (Buchenau) Snogerup, Willdenowia 23: 61 (1993)
Juncus kraussii subsp. australiensis (Buchenau) Snogerup

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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(Buchenau) Snogerup
Buchenau
Snogerup
1993
61
ICN
subsp.
Juncus kraussii subsp. australiensis

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Clumps densely or loosely tufted, dark-coloured. Rhizome 5–8 mm. diam., horizontal, not much branched. Flowering stems 30–100–(120) cm. × 1.5–3 mm., rather distant along the rhizome, rigid, terete, light to dark yellow-brown, pith continuous; basal bracts stiff, acute, red-brown, upper ones larger, broad and mucronate. Lvs 1–2, terete, bright green, sheathing at the base, similar to the stems but shorter. Infl. apparently lateral, open, irregularly-branched, branchlets ∞, rigid, almost equalling the pungent subtending bract. Fls c. 3 mm. long, clustered at the tips of the branchlets; tepals very stiff, red-brown with green to light brown midrib. Stamens us. 3 perfect and 3 aborted, but occ. 1 or more of the us. aborted inner ring are complete; anthers twice as long as filaments. Capsule slightly > tepals, ovoid, shining, mucronate, dark brown, almost black.

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Juncus kraussii subsp. australiensis (Buchenau) Snogerup
Juncus kraussii subsp. australiensis (Buchenau) Snogerup
Juncus kraussii subsp. australiensis (Buchenau) Snogerup
Juncus kraussii subsp. australiensis (Buchenau) Snogerup
Juncus kraussii subsp. australiensis (Buchenau) Snogerup
Juncus kraussii subsp. australiensis (Buchenau) Snogerup
Juncus kraussii subsp. australiensis (Buchenau) Snogerup
Juncus kraussii subsp. australiensis (Buchenau) Snogerup
Juncus kraussii subsp. australiensis (Buchenau) Snogerup
Juncus maritimus var. australiensis Buchenau
Juncus kraussii subsp. australiensis (Buchenau) Snogerup

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Juncus kraussii subsp. australiensis (Buchenau) Snogerup
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c5a986b0-762c-4a38-a521-cd46e6711638
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
27 August 2015
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