Volume III (1980) - Flora of New Zealand Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous & Spathaceous Monocotyledons
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Carex fretalis Hamlin

C. fretalis Hamlin Rec. Dom. Mus. Wellington 6, 1968, 107.

Light yellow-green ± stiff tufts to ± 20 cm high. Leaves plano-convex, tips strongly curled; sheaths light brown. Female spikes 3-4, ± distant, ± pedunculate, light brown, to 2.5 cm × ± 5 mm. Utricles-beak glabrous, but orifice scabrid, 0.4 mm long. Stigmas 3.

S. Southland, near Foveaux Strait and on Centre Id. St. Damp ground.

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