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

C. diandra Schrank Cent. Bot. Anmerk. 1781, 57.

Shoots close together from woody, dark brown rhizomes, loosely tufted, not tussock-forming, pale or bright green, to 55 cm high. Inflorescence a spike-like greenish-brown panicle 1.5-5 cm long. Spikes many, sessile, ± densely clustered, male flowers at top. Utricles dark brown, nerved on one face; beak-margins scabrid. Stigmas 2.

N. Volcanic Plateau; Hawkes Bay; Wellington - north of Plimmerton. S. Scattered; more common in Canterbury, not known from Westland or Fiordland. In wet bog or peat; sea-level to montane. (Europe, N. Asia, N. America)

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