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Volume III (1980) - Flora of New Zealand Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous & Spathaceous Monocotyledons
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Carex ternaria G.Forst. ex Boott

C. ternaria Boott in Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. 1, 1844, 89.

Robust, rhizomatous, to 1.8 m high. Male spikes with long-awned glumes; female spikes in twos or threes at each inflorescence-node, red-brown with long-awned glumes, peduncles erect to pendulous. Utricles 2-3 mm long; beak minute. Stigmas 2.

Ch., Ant., A.

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