Carex enysii Petrie
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Carex enysii Petrie (1923)
Carex enysii Petrie
Nomenclature
Petrie
Petrie
1923
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Carex enysii Petrie
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Carex enysii
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Carex enysii Petrie
Dense close turf usually ± 1.5 cm high; rhizomes short. Leaves setaceous. Inflorescence a small solitary light brown terminal spike, ± 4 mm long; lowest glume bract-like. Utricles smooth; rhachilla enclosed. Stigmas 3.
Carex enysii Petrie
Shortly rhizomatous, forming a dense close turf. Culms 1–1.5–(10) cm. × < 0.5 mm., or up to 0.5 mm. diam. in taller plants, terete, shallowly grooved; basal sheaths chestnut-brown or yellow-brown. Lvs ± = or occ. much < culms, c. 0.3 mm. wide, plano-convex, setaceous, lamina involute just above wide brown sheath, margins smooth, tip obtuse. Infl. a solitary, terminal, androgynous spike of tightly clustered fls. Female fls 2–3, us. overtopping the 1–2 male fls. Lowest female glume bractiform, 4–7 mm. long, upper female glumes c. 3 mm. long, ovate, acute, brown, midrib green, margin hyaline. Utricles 2.5–3 × 1–2 mm., ovoid, subterete, very light brown to dark brown, paler towards the base, smooth, glab.; tapering to a darker beak c. 1 mm. long with a hyaline, oblique orifice; stipe minute or absent. Stigmas 3. Rhachilla, enclosed within utricle, c. 1 mm. long, 0.3 mm. diam. at the base, tapering to the truncate tip. Nut c. 1.5 mm. long, obtusely trigonous.
Taxonomic concepts
Carex enysii Petrie
Carex enysii Petrie
Carex enysii Petrie
Carex enysii Petrie
Carex enysii Petrie
Carex enysii Petrie
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c182a740-57cf-4820-a1b0-995c2b3523e6
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1 January 2000