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Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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Berggr.
Berggr.
1878
ICN
Carex comans Berggr.
species
Carex comans

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comans

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Carex comans Berggr.

Very leafy dense red or yellow-green tufts to 25 cm high. Leaves concavo-convex, usually > stems, drooping above; sheaths dull brown to purple-black. Female spikes c. 5, distant, ± pedunculate, light brown to red-brown, to 2.5 cm × 3-4 mm. Utricle-beak deeply cleft, scabrid, ± 1 mm long. Stigmas 3.

Carex comans Berggr.

Tufts very dense, very lfy, red, or yellow-green. Culms 6–25–(40) cm. long, < 1 mm. diam., terete, glab., flaccid, occ. much elongating at maturation of fr. and drooping to the ground; basal sheaths dull brown to purple-black. Lvs us. > culms, 0.5–1–(1.5) mm. wide, drooping above, concavo-convex, adaxial surface matt, abaxial surface more deeply coloured and shining, margins scabrid, tips rarely curled. Spikes (4)–5–7–(8), linear-oblong; terminal 1–(2) spikes male, very slender; remaining spikes female occ. with a few male fls at the base, 0.5–2.5 cm. × 3–4 mm., distant, the uppermost 1–2 sessile, the lower on filiform peduncles, often drooping. Glumes (excluding awn) often slightly < utricles, ovate-lanceolate, us. emarginate to more deeply bifid at the top with a rather short scabrid awn, light brown or reddish brown with a paler midrib, membr. Utricles 2.5–3.5 × c. 1 mm., unequally biconvex to ± plano-convex, lanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, reddish brown, pale straw-coloured at the base, obscurely ribbed on both faces, becoming smooth when fully mature, lateral nerves us. prominent, margins of upper half sharply serrate, narrowed above to a bifid beak c. 1 mm. long, with slender scabrid crura. Stigmas 3. Nut 1.5–2 mm. long, trigonous, ovoid to oblong-ovoid, dark brown.

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Carex cheesemanii Petrie
Carex comans Berggr.
Carex comans Berggr.
Carex comans Berggr.
Carex comans Berggr.
Carex comans Berggr.
Carex comans Berggr.
Carex comans Berggr.
Carex comans Berggr.
Carex comans Berggr.
Carex comans Berggr.
Carex comans Berggr.
Carex comans Berggr.
Carex comans Berggr.
Carex comans var. cheesemanii (Petrie) Kük.
Carex comans Berggr.
Carex comans var. pulchella (Bergg.) C.B.Clarke
Carex comans Berggr.
Carex pulchella sensu Berggr.
Carex comans Berggr.

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Carex comans Berggr.
[Not available]
Carex comans Berggr.
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East Cape
Carex comans Berggr.
[Not available]
Eastern
Carex comans Berggr.
[Not available]
Egmont-Wanganui
Carex comans Berggr.
[Not available]
North-eastern
Carex comans Berggr.
[Not available]
North-western
Carex comans Berggr.
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Ruahine-Cook
Carex comans Berggr.
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Volcanic Plateau

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d0186149-9f25-4483-a13e-fffb52b91e33
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
20 April 2009
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