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Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 298 (1864)
Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Moore, L.B.; Edgar, E. 1970: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. II. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Monocotyledones except Gramineae. Botany Division DSIR, Wellington.
Names_Fungi record source Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.

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Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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(Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Hook.f.
Hook.f.
Hooker, J.D. 1864: Handbook of the New Zealand Flora: a systematic description of the native plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadec's, Lord Auckland's, Campbell's and Macquarie's Islands. Part I. Reeve, London.
1864
298
ICN
Chaetospora pauciflora Hook.f.
species
Schoenus pauciflorus

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Poales
Cyperaceae
Schoenus
pauciflorus

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Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.

Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.

2n = 28, 56
Moore, L.B.; Edgar, E. 1970: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. II. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Monocotyledones except Gramineae. Botany Division DSIR, Wellington.

Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.

Rush-like; rhizome short, hard and woody, up to 3 mm. diam. Culms (10)–30–80–(90) cm. × 0.5–1.5 mm., densely tufted, longitudinally striate, grey-green or often red. Lvs reduced to ∞, very dark red-purple, basal sheaths, the uppermost 4–14 cm. long, the mucro much elongated, with toothed margins, occ. green. Panicle 1.5–3 cm. long, ± compact, with (1)–2–6–(9) spikelets at the tips of erect, slightly scabrid branchlets, the whole subtended by a stiff bract overtopping the panicle. Spikelets c. 5 mm. long, 2–4-fld, lanceolate. Glumes 4–6, lanceolate, 2–3 lowermost smaller, empty, membr. and colourless, or occ. brown; upper glumes darker brown, pale at the centre, margins hyaline, not ciliate. Hypog. bristles 6, filiform, almost = style, scabrid, persistent. Stamens 3. Style-branches 3, style often persistent. Nut 2–2.5 mm. long, slightly < 1 mm. wide, elliptic-oblong, greenish brown to red-brown, lighter brown at the angles, shining, smooth.

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Chaetospora pauciflora Hook.f.
Chaetospora pauciflora Hook.f.
Moore, L.B.; Edgar, E. (1970)
Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Dawson, M.I. (2008)
Schoenus L.
Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2013)
Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2018)
Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Moore, L.B.; Edgar, E. (1970)

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Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
New Zealand
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Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
New Zealand
Campbell Island
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Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
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Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
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Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
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Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
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Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
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Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
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Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
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Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
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Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
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Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
United Kingdom
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
6 October 2008
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