Carex echinata Murray
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Carex echinata Murray (1770)
Carex echinata Murray
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Murray
Murray
1770
76
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Carex echinata Murray
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Carex echinata
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Carex echinata Murray
2n = c. 58
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.
Taxonomic concepts
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
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1 January 2000
23 May 2013