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Carex maculata

Locally abundant groundcover swamp forest, Dargaville Far North.<br>Photographer: Marley Ford, Date taken: 20/11/2023, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Spikelet.<br>Photographer: Marley Ford, Date taken: 09/12/2021, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Photographer: Marley Ford, Date taken: 09/12/2021, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Foliage.<br>Photographer: Marley Ford, Date taken: 09/12/2021, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

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Biostatus

Exotic

Conservation status

Not applicable

Structural class

Sedges

Similar taxa

Easily recognised by the green spiklets.

Distribution

North Island: Auckland, Kaukapakapa (Stoney Creek Forest, Dye Access Road).

Native to Eastern Australia, Papua New Guinea, and New Caledonia.

Habitat

Known from wet places in rainforest overseas.

In New Zealand it is known from three sites, it inhabits the edge of a shaded creek at one site and at the other two sites this sedge is found under mature pines (Pinus radiata).

Detailed taxonomy

Genus

Carex

Family

Cyperaceae

Authority

Boott

Endemic genus

Endemic family

Other information

Etymology

carex: Latin name for a species of sedge, now applied to the whole group.

maculata: From Latin ‘macula’ blotch, meaning blotchy

Manaaki Whenua Online Interactive Key

Key to indigenous and naturalised Carex in New Zealand

NVS code

The National Vegetation Survey (NVS) Databank is a physical archive and electronic databank containing records of over 94,000 vegetation survey plots - including data from over 19,000 permanent plots. NVS maintains a standard set of species code abbreviations that correspond to standard scientific plant names from the Ngä Tipu o Aotearoa - New Zealand Plants database.

CARmac

Referencing and citations

References and further reading

Wilcox M. 2005. Carex maculata – a new introduced sedge in New Zealand. Auckland Botanical Society Journal 60(1): 45–45.

Attribution

Fact sheet prepared by Marley Ford (10 December 2021).

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