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

C. forsteri Wahlenb. K. Svenska Vet. -Akad. Handl. ser. 2, 24, 1803, 154.

Large leafy tufts to 1.2 m high, red-brown at base. Female spikes c. 5, ± distant, ± pedunculate, 6-11 cm × 5-11 mm, greenish. Utricles tapering to a long beak with oblique bifid orifice. Stigmas 3.

N., S. Common in Nelson, Marlborough, Canterbury, rare further south; not known from Westland. Lowland forest.

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