Carex berggrenii Petrie
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Carex berggrenii Petrie, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 18: 297 (1886)
Nomenclature
Petrie
Petrie
1886
297
illegitimate
ICN
Carex berggrenii Petrie
species
Carex berggrenii
Classification
Descriptions
Carex berggrenii Petrie
2n = 60
Carex berggrenii Petrie
Short, broad, dull red or blue-green tufts to 6 cm high; rhizome short. Leaves concavo-convex, almost flat, hardly narrowed to strikingly obtuse tip. Female spikes 2, crowded round male, < 1 cm long, red-brown. Stigmas 2 or 3.
Carex berggrenii Petrie
Shortly rhizomatous; tufts small, broad, dull red or glaucous. Culms (1.5)–2–3 cm. long, glab., terete, ± flattened above, almost completely enclosed by light brown lf-sheaths. Lvs 3–6 cm. × 1–2.5 mm., linear, concavo-convex, almost flat, nerves very distinct, margins not us. scabrid except towards the strikingly obtuse tip. Spikes 3–(4); terminal spike male, noticeably pedunculate; remaining spikes female, 5–8 mm. long, ovate, sessile or shortly pedunculate, crowded at same level round base of male spike; bracts subtending spikes lf-like, > infl. Glumes rather < utricles, ovate, cuspidate, or entire and obtuse, membr., red-brown, with a paler brown midrib. Utricles 2–3 × c. 1.5 mm., biconvex to occ. subtrigonous, elliptic-oblong, turgid, red-brown to dark red-purple above, yellow below, distinctly nerved at first, smooth at maturity, margins glab.; beak minute, the scabrid orifice very shortly bifid, almost truncate; stipe c. 0.2 mm. long, stout. Stigmas 2 or 3. Nut c. 1.5 mm. long, trigonous.
Taxonomic concepts
Carex berggrenii Petrie
Carex berggrenii Petrie
Carex berggrenii Petrie
Carex berggrenii Petrie
Carex berggrenii Petrie
Carex berggrenii Petrie
Carex berggrenii Petrie
Carex berggrenii Petrie
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Carex berggrenii Petrie (1886: 297) is illegitimate because there exists an earlier homonym Carex berggrenii Heer (1870: 49) a fossil-species described from Spitsbergen island (Svalbard archipelago, Norway).
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1 January 2000
17 June 2020