Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Poales Small
Family
Cyperaceae Juss.
Genus
Carex L.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Carex uncinata L.f., Suppl. Pl. 413 (1782)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Uncinia uncinata (L.f.) Kük., Pflanzenr. (Engler) 38 , 62 (1909)
  • = Uncinia australis Pers., Syn. Pl. (Persoon) 2, 534 (1807) nom. illeg.
  • = Uncinia lindleyana Kunth, Enum Pl. 2, 526 (1837)
  • = Uncinia rigidula Steud., Syn. Pl. Glumac. 2, 245 (1855)
  • = Uncinia alopecuroides Colenso, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 15: 335 (1882 [1883])
  • = Uncinia bractata Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 16: 341 (1883 [1884])
  • = Uncinia polyneura Colenso, Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 19: 270 (1886)
  • = Uncinia pedicellata Kük., Pflanzenr. (Engler) 38 , 61 (1909)
  • ≡ Uncinia australis var. pedicellata (Kük.) Petrie, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 47: 59 (1915)
  • ≡ Uncinia uncinata var. pedicellata (Kük.) Petrie, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 47: 54 (1915)
  • = Uncinia uncinata var. laxior Carse, Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 48: 240 (1916)
  • = Uncinia uncinata var. uliginosa Skottsb. (1944)
 Description

Caespitose. Culms (10)–18–45–(90) cm. × 1–1.5 mm., glab., or occ. scabrid just below infl.; basal sheaths dull brown. Lvs 5–10 per culm, ± = culms, or > flowering culms, (2)–3–4–(5) mm. wide, dark green or occ. reddish green, strongly scabrid on the margins and on the adaxial surface towards the tip. Spikes (5.5)–7–20 cm. × 2–3.5 mm., us. bracteate, female fls ∞, us. c. 60–120, very closely crowded throughout almost the whole spike, internodes 0.5–1.5 mm. long. Glumes us. < but occ. slightly > utricles, deciduous, ovate, obtuse or subacute, coriac., yellowish with a green midrib or often entirely dark brown, occ. greenish pink. Utricles (4)–4.5–5 mm. long, slightly > 1 mm. diam., a plano-convex or concavo-convex, shining, with us. one prominent lateral nerve on the abaxial face and 3–4 faint nerves on the adaxial face, yellowish to dull brown, stipe 1–1.5 mm. long, beak slightly > 1 mm. long; scarcely spreading when ripe.

[From: Moore and Edgar (1970) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 2. as Uncinia uncinata (L.f.) Kük.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
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