following Global Carex Group 2015: Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 179: 1-42
Other identifications
Identification
Determined name:
Uncinia leptostachya Raoul
Determiner:
Wilson HD
Identification date:
1985-02-08 (Verbatim: 8-FEB-1985)
Preferred name:
Carex cyanea K.A.Ford
Active:
no
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Banks Peninsula: southern slopes of Mount Herbert
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.6957 172.746
Verbatim locality:
Banks Peninsula: southern slopes of Mount Herbert
Verbatim collector:
H.D. Wilson BP567
Standardised collector:
Hugh D. Wilson
Verbatim date:
8-FEB-1985
Start date:
1985-02-08
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Native lands:
Ngāi Tahu
Georeferences:
New Zealand Map Series 260:
M36 89- 23- (WGS84 -43.695664 172.745554)
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
43°41´ S 172°44.7´ E (WGS84 -43.683333 172.745)
Abundance:
Occasional
Altitudes:
from 600m
Habitat:
Sloping floor under rather scrubby upper montane totara/broadleaf forest.
Abundance:
Occasional
Keywords:
Montane; Shortforest(2.5-20m)
Notes:
Dark green tussock. Utricles scabrid. Many infected with ergot. I find it difficult to draw a line between scabra-like plants and leptostachya-like plants on Banks Peninsula, as at August 1993.