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Carex pilifolia K.A.Ford

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Carex pilifolia K.A.Ford, New Zealand J. Bot. 63: 2753 (2025)
Carex pilifolia K.A.Ford
Ford, K.A. 2025: A taxonomic revision of New Zealand species of Carex section Inversae Kük. (Carex subgenus Vignea, Cyperaceae). New Zealand Journal of Botany 63(5): 2703–2775. (Published online: 13 Feb 2025)

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Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Ford, K.A. (2025)

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K.A.Ford
K.A.Ford
Ford, K.A. 2025: A taxonomic revision of New Zealand species of Carex section Inversae Kük. (Carex subgenus Vignea, Cyperaceae). New Zealand Journal of Botany 63(5): 2703–2775. (Published online: 13 Feb 2025)
2025
2753
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Carex pilifolia K.A.Ford
species
Carex pilifolia
From Latin pilus, a hair, and folium, a leaf.
Holotype: New Zealand, South Island, Mounds of Misery, Pūkio Stream, Canterbury, 806 m, K.A. Ford 1228/24 & J.L. Gosden, 27 Apr 2024, CHR 666747

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Poales
Cyperaceae
Carex
pilifolia

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Carex pilifolia K.A.Ford
Carex pilifolia K.A.Ford
Ford, K.A. (2025)
Carex pilifolia K.A.Ford

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Carex pilifolia K.A.Ford
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
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Carex pilifolia K.A.Ford
New Zealand
Otago Land District
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Carex pilifolia K.A.Ford
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
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typification
Holotype: New Zealand, South Island, Mounds of Misery, Pūkio Stream, Canterbury, 806 m, K.A. Ford 1228/24 & J.L. Gosden, 27 Apr 2024, CHR 666747
Ford, K.A. 2025: A taxonomic revision of New Zealand species of Carex section Inversae Kük. (Carex subgenus Vignea, Cyperaceae). New Zealand Journal of Botany 63(5): 2703–2775. (Published online: 13 Feb 2025)
Etymology
From Latin pilus, a hair, and folium, a leaf.
Ford, K.A. 2025: A taxonomic revision of New Zealand species of Carex section Inversae Kük. (Carex subgenus Vignea, Cyperaceae). New Zealand Journal of Botany 63(5): 2703–2775. (Published online: 13 Feb 2025)
typification
Holotype: Mounds of Misery, Pūkio Stream, Canterbury, 806 m, K.A. Ford 1228/24 & J.L. Gosden, 27 Apr 2024, CHR 666747
Etymology
pilifolia- from Latin pilus (a hair) and folium (leaf). Fine hair-like leaves.

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16 February 2025
2 July 2026
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