Carex secta Boott
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Carex secta Boott in Hooker, Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 281 (1853)
Carex secta Boott
Nomenclature
Boott
Boott
1853
281
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Carex secta Boott
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Carex secta
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Carex secta Boott
2n = c. 70
2n = c. 70 (69–70)
Carex secta Boott
Large harshly scabrid tussocks on tall trunk-like bases. Stems and leaves drooping. Spikes light brown, sessile male flowers at top. Utricles dark brown, smooth, shining. Stigmas 2.
Stems to 1 m high. Leaves to 7 mm wide. Inflorescence a loose drooping panicle to 45 cm long with many long slender branches.
Carex secta Boott
Tussocks often forming trunk-like bases up to 1 m. × 50 cm., of matted rhizomes, roots and old culm-bases. Culms drooping, trigonous, grooved, harshly scabrid; basal sheaths brown. Lvs = or > culms, drooping, channelled, margins and keel harshly scabrid. Glumes very slightly < utricles, ovate, acuminate, membr., pale brown with a pale straw-coloured midrib and very broad hyaline margins. Utricle 2.5–3 × c. 1.5 mm., plano-convex or unequally biconvex, ovoid, turgid, dark brown, smooth or with faint nerves, shining; beak bifid, 0.5–1 mm. long with winged scabrid margins; stipe c. 0.1 mm. long. Stigmas 2. Nut c. 1.5 mm. long, biconvex, obovoid, light brown.
Culms 25–100 cm. × 1–2 mm. Lvs 1.5–7 mm. wide. Infl. a loosely branched, drooping panicle up to 45 cm. long, with pale brown spikes mostly clustered towards the end of the slender branchlets.
Taxonomic concepts
Carex appressa var. secta (Boot) Kük. 1909
Carex secta Boott
Carex paniculata var. secta (Boot) Cheeseman 1884
Carex secta Boott
Carex virgata var. secta (Boot) Hook.f. 1864
Carex secta Boott
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1 January 2000
23 May 2013