Download Copy a link to this page Cite this record

Carex echinata Murray

Scientific name record
Names_Plants record source
Is NZ relevant
This is the current name
This record has collections
This record has descriptions
This is indigenous
Threat status: Not threatened
Show more

Click to collapse Biostatus Info

Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

Click to collapse Nomenclature Info

Murray
Murray
1770
76
ICN
Carex echinata Murray
species
Carex echinata

Click to collapse Classification Info

echinata

Click to collapse Vernacular names Info

Click to collapse Descriptions Info

Carex echinata Murray

Loose tufts to 35 cm high. Leaves < stems. Inflorescence 1.5-4 cm long, green or pale brown, of 3-5 ± distant sessile spikes, utricles widely spreading when ripe and individual spikes stellate. Male flowers at base of spikes. Stigmas 2.

Carex echinata Murray

Loosely tufted from an ascending rhizome; tufts ± flaccid. Culms (3.5)–6–35 cm. × c. 0.5 mm., subtrigonous, glab.; basal sheaths grey or light brown. Lvs us. < culms, 0.5–1.5 mm. wide, channelled to flat, margins scabrid, tapering towards the subacute tip. Infl. a compound spike 1.5–4 cm. long, green or pale brown, of 3–5 ± distant spikes, utricles widely spreading when ripe and individual spikes star-shaped; lowest spike us. subtended by a filiform scabrid bract c. ½ length of infl. Spikes androgynous, 3–7 mm. long, male fls at the base of each spike; plants occ. almost dioec. Glumes c. 1/2 length of utricle, membr., light brown, with a pale cream or green well-marked midrib and hyaline margins. Utricles 2.5–4 × c. 1.5 mm., plano-convex, us. distinctly nerved; contracted above to a narrow, dark brown beak with green, slightly or distinctly scabrid margins and slightly bifid orifice; puckered below to a rather indistinct stipe c. 2 mm. long. Stigmas 2. Nut slightly < 2 mm. long, ± biconvex, oblong-ovoid, pale brown.

Click to collapse Taxonomic concepts Info

Carex echinata Murray
Carex echinata Murray
Carex echinata Murray
Carex echinata Murray
Carex echinata Murray
Carex echinata Murray
Carex echinata Murray
Carex echinata Murray
Carex echinata Murray
Carex echinata Murray
Carex echinata Murray
Carex echinata Murray
Carex stellulata Gooden.
Carex echinata Murray
Carex stellulata var. australis Kük. 1903
Carex echinata Murray

Click to collapse Collections Info

Carex echinata Murray
[Not available]
Carex echinata Murray
[Not available]
Egmont-Wanganui
Carex echinata Murray
[Not available]
Volcanic Plateau

Click to collapse Metadata Info

a0dba7e9-4a07-438d-9732-614ae727d499
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
23 May 2013
Click to go back to the top of the page
Top