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Volume III (1980) - Flora of New Zealand Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous & Spathaceous Monocotyledons
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Carex cirrhosa Berggr.

C. cirrhosa S. Berggr. Minneskr. Fisiogr. Sällsk. Lund 1878, Art. 8, 29, t. 7, f. 27-34.

Small grey-green or reddish tufts to ± 12 cm high. Leaves > stems, concavo-convex, tips curled. Inflorescence hidden among leaves; female spikes c. 3, approximate, light pinkish-brown, to 8 mm long. Stigmas 2.

N. Auckland - near Rotorua; Gisborne - Lake Waikaremoana; Hawkes Bay - Kaweka Lakes; Wellington - lower Wairarapa. S. Local in Canterbury. Lowland to montane on margins of lakes and ponds and in river beds.

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