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

C. kaloides Petrie T.N.Z.I. 13, 1881, 332.

Reddish- or yellow-green tussocks to 75 cm high; rhizome stout, long or short. Inflorescence usually 7-18 cm long, narrow, branches short with many pale straw-coloured ± distant sessile spikes. Male flowers above female. Stigmas 2.

S. Marlborough; Canterbury; Otago - south to Clutha River. Drier ground above swamps, lakes and river flats; lowland to montane.

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