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Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman

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Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl., ed. 2, 305-306 (1925)
Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman

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Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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(Buchenau) Cheeseman
Buchenau
Cheeseman
1925
305-306
ICN
species
Luzula traversii

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traversii

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Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman

Leaves rather stiff, tapering very gradually to the acicular tip, margins usually slightly incurved, with long white hairs. Flowering stems (2)-10- 25-(40) cm long. Inflorescence usually pendulous with subsessile clusters of flowers congested into a pyramidal head. Flowers 1-7-2-5-(3) mm long; tepals chestnut to dark brown with broad or narrow silver membranous margins. Capsules more or less equal to tepals in length, chestnut to dark brown, almost black.

Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman

Grass-like, (2) -10-25- (40) cm high. Leaves ± stiff, with acicular tip, 1-5 mm wide. Inflorescence a ± drooping pyramidal head. Flowers usually 1.5-2.5 mm long. Stamens 3, (6 in ).

Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman

Grass-like, tufted. Lvs rather stiff, tapering very gradually to the acicular tip, margins us. slightly incurved, with long white hairs. Flowering stems (2)–10–25–(40) cm. long, > lvs, elongating when fr. matures. Infl. us. pend. with subsessile clusters of fls congested into a pyramidal head. Fls 1.5–2.5–(3) mm. long; tepals chestnut to dark brown with broad or narrow, silver, membr. margins. Capsules ± = tepals, chestnut to dark brown, almost black.

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Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman
Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman
Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman
Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman
Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman
Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman

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Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman
New Zealand
Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman
New Zealand
Southland Land District

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c2dd382f-e59d-49b6-a395-0cf52d7d0754
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
7 November 2006
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