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Carex forsteri Wahlenb.

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Wahlenb.
Wahlenb.
1803
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Carex forsteri Wahlenb.
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Carex forsteri

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forsteri

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Carex forsteri Wahlenb.

Large leafy tufts to 1.2 m high, red-brown at base. Female spikes c. 5, ± distant, ± pedunculate, 6-11 cm × 5-11 mm, greenish. Utricles tapering to a long beak with oblique bifid orifice. Stigmas 3.

Carex forsteri Wahlenb.

Large lfy tufts. Culms up to 70 cm. long, 1–2.5 mm. diam., trigonous, smooth or occ. slightly scabrid below infl.; basal sheaths dark red-brown. Lvs much > culms, up to 120 cm. long, 3–12 mm. wide, double-folded, keel and margins scabrid. Infl. of 4–6–(8) spikes; terminal 1–3 spikes wholly or partly male; remaining spikes female with some male fls at the base, (2.5)–6–11 cm. × 5–11 mm., ± distant, ± pedunculate, lowest peduncles often long and slender and spikes drooping, green to grey-green. Glumes 2–5 mm. long, lanceolate, gradually tapering to a scabrid awn, membr., light brown, with a narrow green midrib. Utricles = or slightly > glumes, 4–5 × c. 1 mm., subtrigonous, lanceolate, slightly reflexed, turgid towards the base, distinctly many-nerved, greenish brown, gradually tapering to a beak 1.5–2 mm. long with an oblique, bifid, scabrid orifice. Stigmas 3. Nut 1.5–2 mm. long, trigonous, elliptic-obovoid, cream to dark brown.

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Carex forsteri Wahlenb.
Carex forsteri Wahlenb.
Carex forsteri Wahlenb.
Carex forsteri Wahlenb.
Carex forsteri Wahlenb.
Carex forsteri Wahlenb.
Carex forsteri Wahlenb.
Carex forsteri Wahlenb.
Carex forsteri Wahlenb.
Carex forsteri Wahlenb.
Carex forsteri Wahlenb.
Carex forsteri Wahlenb.
Carex punctulata A.Rich.
Carex forsteri Wahlenb.
Carex recurva Schkuhr
Carex forsteri Wahlenb.
Carex semiforsteri C.B.Clarke
Carex forsteri Wahlenb.

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Carex forsteri Wahlenb.
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Carex forsteri Wahlenb.
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North-western
Carex forsteri Wahlenb.
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Ruahine-Cook
Carex forsteri Wahlenb.
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Sounds-Nelson

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cc050b24-2572-40e1-b8ba-7666904cfaed
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
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