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Schoenus carsei Cheeseman

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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Cheeseman
Cheeseman
1906
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Schoenus carsei Cheeseman
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Schoenus carsei

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carsei

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Schoenus carsei Cheeseman

Rush-like; rhizome short, up to 3 mm. diam., with closely appressed, dark red-purple bracts. Culms 60–90 cm. long, us. slightly < 1 mm. diam., densely tufted, light green. Lvs reduced to brown, sheathing, mucronate bracts, the mucro more elongated in the uppermost bracts; mouth of sheath not ciliate. Panicle 8–15–(22) cm. long, very slender, with ± distant fascicles of 3–4 branchlets, each fascicle subtended by a short sheath similar to those at base of culm; branchlets filiform, flexuous, laterally compressed, edges not toothed, simple or branched again. Spikelets single at the tips of the branchlets, 7–10 mm. long, 2-fld, very narrow, compressed, linear-lanceolate, grey-brown. Glumes 5–7, closely imbricating, lanceolate, acute, almost entirely hyaline except near the midrib, margins not ciliate, 3–4 lower glumes and uppermost glume empty. Hypog. bristles 0, occ. 3, very minute. Stamens 3. Style-branches 3. Nut c. 2 × 1mm., oblong-ovoid, obtuse, smooth, white.

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Schoenus carsei Cheeseman
Schoenus carsei Cheeseman
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Schoenus carsei Cheeseman
Schoenus carsei Cheeseman
Schoenus carsei Cheeseman
Schoenus carsei Cheeseman
Schoenus carsei Cheeseman
Schoenus carsei Cheeseman
Schoenus carsei Cheeseman
Schoenus carsei Cheeseman
Schoenus carsei Cheeseman
Schoenus carsei Cheeseman
Schoenus carsei Cheeseman

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Schoenus carsei Cheeseman
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f4d30a66-e8ba-4ddb-a378-926521f60c82
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
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