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Volume III (1980) - Flora of New Zealand Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous & Spathaceous Monocotyledons
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Carex pyrenaica var. cephalotes (F.Muell.) Kük.

C. pyrenaica Wahlenb. K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl. ser. 2, 24, 1803, 139 var. cephalotes (F. Muell.) Kük. Pflanzenreich 38, 1909, 106.

Varying from small compact cushions 3 cm high to luxuriant tufts 20 cm high. Leaves usually < stems. Inflorescence a solitary terminal ebracteate red-brown ovate spike ± 1 cm long. Utricles smooth, shortly stipitate. Stigmas 2 or 3.

N. Mt Egmont; Ruahine and Tararua Ranges. S. Subalpine to alpine; in bogs; snowbanks and late melt areas in fellfield, high altitude snow-tussock grassland and herbfield. (Australia)

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