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

C. muelleri Petrie T.N.Z.I. 18, 1886, 298.

Small stiffly erect yellow-green tussocks to 30 cm high; rhizome stout, short. Leaves plano-convex. Inflorescence 1.5-3 cm long, of 5-10 ± contiguous, pale straw-coloured, sessile spikes. Almost dioecious. Stigmas 2.

S. Nelson - Tarndale; Marlborough; Canterbury; Otago. Short-tussock grassland; montane to subalpine.

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