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Carex megalepis K.A.Ford

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Threat status: Not threatened
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Carex megalepis K.A.Ford in Global Carex Group, Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 179: 34 (2015)
Carex megalepis K.A.Ford

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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K.A.Ford
K.A.Ford
2015
34
replacement name
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Carex megalepis K.A.Ford
species
Carex megalepis
This species has large glumes that are much longer than the perigynia; from the Greek mega-, big, and lepis, lepidos, a scale.

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megalepis

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Caespitose. Culms (10)–20–60 cm. × c. 1 mm., glab.; basal bracts dull brown to reddish brown. Lvs 4–8 per culm, = or > culms, 3–5 mm.wide, scabrid on the margins. Spikes 7–16 cm. × 6–10 mm., us. bracteate, female fls c. 60–100, very closely crowded throughout almost the whole spike, internodes 0.5–4 mm. long. Glumes twice as long as utricles, deciduous, linear-subulate, acute or obtuse, coriac., yellowish or ferruginous. Utricles 4–5 × c. 1.5 mm., plano-convex or rarely subtrigonous, dark brown, shining, nerved towards the base with a more strongly marked lateral nerve, sharply contracted below to a stipe 1 mm. long and above to a stout beak 1.5–2 mm. long.

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Carex megalepis K.A.Ford
Carex megalepis K.A.Ford
Carex megalepis K.A.Ford
Carex megalepis K.A.Ford
Carex megalepis K.A.Ford
Carex megalepis K.A.Ford
Uncinia australis var. ferruginea (Boott) C.B.Clarke
Carex megalepis K.A.Ford
Uncinia ferruginea Boott
Carex megalepis K.A.Ford
Uncinia nigra Colenso
Carex megalepis K.A.Ford
Uncinia uncinata var. ferruginea (Boott) Kük.
Carex megalepis K.A.Ford
Uncinia variegata Colenso
Carex megalepis K.A.Ford

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Carex megalepis K.A.Ford
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Eastern
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Egmont-Wanganui
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Fiord
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Western

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Etymology
This species has large glumes that are much longer than the perigynia; from the Greek mega-, big, and lepis, lepidos, a scale.

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e4a6e78a-9145-4c12-81c6-8568cf0d5c72
scientific name
Names_Plants
19 August 2015
19 August 2015
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