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

C. lachenalii Schkuhr Riedgr. 1, 1801, 51, t.y, f. 79.

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.

S. Nelson; Canterbury; Otago; Fiordland. Local in snow hollows, damp seepages, tarns; subalpine to alpine. (Europe, N. Asia, N. America)

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