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Schoenoplectus pungens (Vahl) Palla

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Schoenoplectus pungens (Vahl) Palla (1903)
Schoenoplectus pungens (Vahl) Palla

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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(Vahl) Palla
Vahl
Palla
1903
ICN
species
Schoenoplectus pungens

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pungens

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Summer-green perennial. Rhyzome 2–8 mm. diam., woody, with thin, grey, papery scales at the nodes and reddish fibrous roots. Culms (15)–30–60–(120) cm. × 1–4 mm., triquetrous, with concave sides, smooth, soft, pale sea-green; 1–2 thin, membr. sheaths at base. Lvs 1–4, < stem, 1–3 mm. wide, linear, channelled, becoming triangular with margins sparingly scabrid towards the obtuse tip, adaxial surface membr. with internal septa clearly visible; sheaths long, closed, largely membr. Infl. apparently lateral, of 1–4 unequal, closely compacted, sessile spikelets; subtending bract 2–6 cm. long, similar to stem and continuous with it, scabrid towards the tip. Spikelets 6–11×3–5 mm., ovate, elliptic, dark purple-brown. Glumes broadly ovate, smooth, membr., margins fimbriate, emarginate, midrib produced to a mucro <, = or rarely slightly > small, round teeth of glume apex. Hypog. bristles 2–6, < nut, retrorsely scabrid, red-brown. Stamens 3. Style-branches 3. Nut c. 3×2 mm., obovoid, plano-convex to subtrigonous, prominently apiculate, smooth, grey-brown.

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Schoenoplectus pungens (Vahl) Palla
Schoenoplectus pungens (Vahl) Palla
Schoenoplectus pungens (Vahl) Palla
Schoenoplectus pungens (Vahl) Palla
Schoenoplectus pungens (Vahl) Palla
Schoenoplectus pungens (Vahl) Palla
Schoenoplectus pungens (Vahl) Palla
Schoenoplectus pungens (Vahl) Palla
Schoenoplectus pungens (Vahl) Palla
Schoenoplectus pungens (Vahl) Palla
Schoenoplectus pungens (Vahl) Palla
Scirpus americanus sensu Moore & Edgar
Schoenoplectus pungens (Vahl) Palla
Scirpus pungens Vahl
Schoenoplectus pungens (Vahl) Palla

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Schoenoplectus pungens (Vahl) Palla
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cc846808-6a4e-4952-a2ed-c4190a24e28c
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
9 April 2008
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