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

C. dipsacea S. Berggr. Minneskr. Fisiogr. Sällsk. Lund 1878, Art. 8, 28, t. 7, f. 8-14.

Harsh, light green or reddish tufts to 75 cm high. Female spikes 2-5, ± distant, ± sessile, ± 2.5 cm × 5 mm, red-brown. Glumes obtuse, membranous, midrib often not reaching margin. Utricles crowded, spreading when ripe, margins usually scabrid. Stigmas 2.

N., S. Lowland to subalpine in damp or swampy ground and in tussock grassland.

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