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Carex kirkii Petrie

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Carex kirkii Petrie, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 18: 297 (1885 [1886])
Carex kirkii Petrie

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Petrie
Petrie
1885
1886
297
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Carex kirkii Petrie
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Carex kirkii

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kirkii

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Carex kirkii Petrie

Bright green wiry-leaved tufts; rhizome short to long. Inflorescence pale green to pale brown. Spikes few, sessile, male at top. Stigmas 2.

Carex kirkii Petrie

Shortly rhizomatous; tufts dense, bright green. Culms c. 0.5 mm. diam., triquetrous, smooth; basal sheaths chestnut. Lvs 3–5 per culm, wiry, striated, scabrid towards the acute tip. Infl. a compound spike, pale green or pale brown. Spikes androgynous, male fls terminal, occ. absent in the lower spike. Glumes = or slightly >, rarely < utricles, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate or acute, membr., light brown or almost colourless, midrib light green, prominent in the lowermost glumes and often scabrid towards the tip. Utricles 4–4.5 × c. 1 mm., plano-convex, elliptic-obovoid, ± papillose, strongly nerved slightly winged; beak 1.5–2 mm. long, scabrid on the margins, orifice oblique, bifid; stipe minute or absent. Stigmas 2. Nut c. 2 mm. long, plano-convex, oblong, shortly stipitate.

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Carex kirkii Petrie
Carex kirkii Petrie
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Carex kirkii Petrie
Carex kirkii Petrie
Carex kirkii Petrie
Carex kirkii Petrie
Carex kirkii Petrie
Carex kirkii Petrie
Carex kirkii Petrie

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Carex kirkii Petrie
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
30 April 2004
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