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Carex lachenalii Schkuhr

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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Schkuhr
Schkuhr
1801
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Carex lachenalii Schkuhr
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Carex lachenalii

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lachenalii

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Carex lachenalii Schkuhr

Small wiry tufts, usually to 10 cm high. Leaves < stems. Inflorescence a single erect dark red-brown head, 8-15 mm long, of 2-4 sessile, contiguous spikes with short glume-like bracts. Male flowers at base of spikes. Utricles wingless, scarcely beaked. Stigmas 2.

Carex lachenalii Schkuhr

Tufted from an ascending rhizome. Culms 3–10–(20) cm. × c. 1 mm., trigonous, wiry, glab., occ. scabrid above; basal sheaths cream, grey or light brown. Lvs us. < culms, < 2 mm. wide, slightly striated, channelled, sts flat, grasslike, tips obtuse to subacute, margins faintly serrulate towards the tip. Infl. a single dark brown terminal head, 8–15 mm. long, of 2–4 contiguous spikes; subtending bracts not conspicuously different from glumes. Spikes androgynous, 5–8 mm. long, male fls at base of spike. Glumes ± =, or slightly < utricles, broadly ovate, obtuse or sub-acute, dark brown with a lighter brown midrib and very broad, pale brown, hyaline margins. Utricles 2.5–3 × c. 1.5 mm., plano-convex, oblong-ovoid, indistinctly nerved, margins glab., contracted to a narrow dark brown to black beak slightly > 0.5 mm. long, puckered below to a broad pale brown stipe, < 0.5 mm. long. Stigmas 2. Nut c. 1.5 mm. long, oblong-obovoid to almost orbicular, light brown.

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Carex lachenalii Schkuhr
Carex lachenalii Schkuhr
Carex lachenalii Schkuhr
Carex lachenalii Schkuhr
Carex lagopina Wahlenb.
Carex lachenalii Schkuhr

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Carex lachenalii Schkuhr
Finland
Carex lachenalii Schkuhr
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Carex lachenalii Schkuhr
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Carex lachenalii Schkuhr
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Carex lachenalii Schkuhr
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Carex lachenalii Schkuhr
Norway
Carex lachenalii Schkuhr
Sweden
Carex lachenalii Schkuhr
Switzerland

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scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
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