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Carex ventosa C.B.Clarke

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Carex ventosa C.B.Clarke in Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl., ed. 2, 832 (1906)
Carex ventosa C.B.Clarke

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New Zealand
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C.B.Clarke
C.B.Clarke
1906
832
ICN
Carex ventosa C.B.Clarke
species
Carex ventosa

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ventosa

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Carex ventosa C.B.Clarke

Very leafy tufts ± 60 cm high. Female spikes c. 5, lowest usually distant, to 9.5 cm × ± 7 mm, light greenish-brown. Glumes ± colourless, membranous, transparent. Stigmas 3.

Carex ventosa C.B.Clarke

Tufts very lfy. Culms 45–60–(100) cm. × 1–2.5 mm., trigonous, mostly smooth but scabrid just below infl.; basal sheaths brown. Lvs = or > culms, 5–11 mm. wide, double-folded, pale green, margins slightly scabrid. Infl. 20–45 cm. long, of c. 7 spikes, either approximate or the lowermost 1–2 distant, occ. compound, pedunculate; terminal 1–2 spikes male; remaining spikes female, occ. with male fls at the top, 2–9.5 cm. × 6–8 mm. Glumes (excluding awn) < or = utricles, ovate, acute or truncate, membr., with ∞ distinct nerves, colourless except for red-brown striae and occ. dark red-brown larger markings beside the greenish midrib; awn scabrid, up to 2 mm. long. Utricles 4.5–5 × 1.5–2 mm., subtrigonous, ellipsoid, distinctly nerved, light greenish brown, margins quite glab.; beak narrow, bifid, c. 1 mm. long, orifice slightly scabrid; stipe minute. Stigmas 3. Nut c. 2 mm. long, trigonous, oblong, dark brown.

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Carex McClurgii Petrie
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Carex ventosa C.B.Clarke
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d3536feb-e2d3-4a89-a1cf-1cde062b66b5
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
16 June 2003
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