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Carex lambertiana Boott

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Boott
Boott
1853
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Carex lambertiana Boott
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Carex lambertiana

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lambertiana

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Carex lambertiana Boott

Bright green, robust, leafy tufts to 1 m high. Female spikes c. 5, erect on short peduncles, ± 5 cm × 5 mm, dark red-brown. Glumes all deeply emarginate. Utricles obovoid. Stigmas 3.

Carex lambertiana Boott

Tufts robust, lfy, 60–100 cm. tall. Culms 1–2 mm. diam., trigonous, smooth; basal sheaths dark grey-brown or purple-black. Lvs ± = culms, 3–6 mm. wide, double-folded, bright green or yellow-green, margins finely scabrid. Spikes 5–8; terminal 1–(3) spikes male; remaining spikes female, often male at the base, 1.5–5 cm. × 5–7 mm., cylindrical, uppermost spikes approximate and sessile, lower spikes more distant, erect, on short, stiff peduncles. Glumes (excluding awn) ± = utricles, ovate, pinkish brown to chestnut-brown, membr., hyaline margins often very broad, tip deeply emarginate, the light green or brown midrib produced to a scabrid awn. Utricles 2.5–3.5 × c. 1.5 mm., biconvex, obovoid, turgid, us. brown throughout with distinct, paler brown nerves, shining; beak slightly < 1 mm. long, bifid, with very divergent crura, margins and orifice scabrid. Stigmas 3. Nut c. 1.5 mm. long, trigonous, light to dark brown, surface minutely pitted.

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Carex dissita var. lambertiana (Boott) Cheeseman
Carex lambertiana Boott
Carex lambertiana Boott
Carex lambertiana Boott
Carex lambertiana Boott
Carex lambertiana Boott
Carex lambertiana Boott
Carex lambertiana Boott
Carex lambertiana Boott
Carex lambertiana Boott
Carex lambertiana Boott
Carex lambertiana Boott

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Carex lambertiana Boott
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Carex lambertiana Boott
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South Auckland

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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
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