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Volume III (1980) - Flora of New Zealand Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous & Spathaceous Monocotyledons
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Scirpus cernuus Vahl

S. cernuus Vahl Enum. Pl. 2, 1806, 245.

Densely tufted or with short rhizome. Very variable in size; stems (2) -6-12- (20) cm high. Leaves many or few. Inflorescence of 1- (3) spikelets. Glumes usually red-brown with wide but not prominent green keels. Stamens 3. Style-branches 3. Nut plano-convex, rounded at tip and sharply apiculate, usually red-brown.

N., S., St., Ch., Ant., A., C. Coastal; in damp sand hollows and on rock. (Almost cosmopolitan).

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