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Volume II (1970) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Monocotyledons except Graminae
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Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman

L. traversii (Buch.) Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. 1925, 305.

L. racemosa Desv. var. traversii Buch. in Engl. Bot. Jb.  12,  1890,  133.

Grass-like, tufted. Lvs rather stiff, tapering very gradually to the acicular tip, margins us. slightly incurved, with long white hairs. Flowering stems (2)–10–25–(40) cm. long, > lvs, elongating when fr. matures. Infl. us. pend. with subsessile clusters of fls congested into a pyramidal head. Fls 1.5–2.5–(3) mm. long; tepals chestnut to dark brown with broad or narrow, silver, membr. margins. Capsules ± = tepals, chestnut to dark brown, almost black.

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