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Carex testacea Sol. ex Boott

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Carex testacea Sol. ex Boott (1853)
Carex testacea Sol. ex Boott

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Sol. ex Boott
Boott
1853
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Carex testacea Sol. ex Boott
species
Carex testacea

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testacea

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Carex testacea Sol. ex Boott

2n = 52
2n = 56

Carex testacea Sol. ex Boott

Green or red tufts to 60 cm high. Stems often greatly elongated at maturity to 3 m. Female spikes 2-4, ± approximate, ± sessile, to 2.5 cm × ± 5 mm, light to dark brown. Glumes membranous, awned. Stigmas 2.

Carex testacea Sol. ex Boott

Densely tufted, 30–60 cm. high. Culms < or > lvs, often exceedingly elongated at maturity, up to 300 cm. long and prostrate, < 1 mm. diam., often almost filiform, trigonous or subtrigonous, glab. or slightly scabrid below the infl.; basal sheaths dark brown or red-brown, nerves distinct. Lvs 1–2.5–(3) mm. wide, channelled, light green, often reddish, harshly scabrid. Spikes 3–5, ± approximate; terminal spike male, c. 1 mm. diam., ± = female spikes in length, on a filiform peduncle; remaining spikes female, 0.5–2.5–(3) cm. × c. 5 mm., often with a few male fls at the base, sessile, or the lowest more distant and shortly pedunculate. Glumes (excluding awn) ± = utricle, broadly ovate, thin and membr., often deeply emarginate, occ. entire, very light brown with darker flecks, midrib us. brown-spotted, produced to a scabrid awn of variable length. Utricles c. 2.5 × 1.5 mm., ± plano-convex, broadly ovoid, pale yellow-brown below, purple-brown above, nerved, more strongly so on the more convex face, shining, narrowed abruptly to the deeply bifid beak c. 0.5 mm. long, margins and orifice us. finely scabrid, occ. ± contracted below to a stipe c. 0.5 mm. long. Stigmas 2. Nut c. 1.5 mm. long, biconvex, dark brown, almost black.

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Carex testacea Sol. ex Boott
Carex testacea Sol. ex Boott
Carex testacea Sol. ex Boott
Carex testacea Boott
Carex testacea Sol. ex Boott
Carex testacea Sol. ex Boott
Carex testacea Sol. ex Boott
Carex testacea Sol. ex Boott
Carex testacea Sol. ex Boott
Carex testacea Sol. ex Boott
Carex testacea Sol. ex Boott
Carex testacea Boott
Carex testacea Sol. ex Boott
Carex testacea Sol. ex Boott
Carex testacea Sol. ex Boott
Carex testacea Sol. ex Boott
Carex testacea Sol. ex Boott

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Carex testacea Sol. ex Boott
[Not available]
Carex testacea Sol. ex Boott
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North-western
Carex testacea Sol. ex Boott
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Western

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b69b5304-df02-4257-be2d-32efe4cf61ce
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
5 July 2011
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