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:
1987-02-13 (Verbatim: 13-FEB-1987)
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, Okuti Valley Scenic Reserve
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.7849 172.832
Verbatim locality:
Banks Peninsula: Okuti Valley Scenic Reserve
Verbatim collector:
Wilson H.D. BP1128
Standardised collector:
Hugh D. Wilson
Verbatim date:
13-FEB-1987
Start date:
1987-02-13
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Native lands:
Ngāi Tahu
Georeferences:
New Zealand Map Series 260:
N36 96- 13- (WGS84 -43.785819 172.832139)
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
43°47´ S 172°49.9´ E (WGS84 -43.783333 172.831667)
Abundance:
Common
Altitudes:
from 100m
Habitat:
Trackside in forest.
Abundance:
Common
Keywords:
Hill; Tallforest(>20m)
Notes:
Dark green tussock. Utricles hispid along both edges towards tip of utricle. Upper sheaths greenish brown. Utricles not as obviously marked nor as narrow as in many Banks Peninsula plants - has some character said to mark U. scabra. I cannot demarcate the 2 species here.