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Carex punctata

Spikelet of dead plant weedy on forest margins.<br>Photographer: Marley Ford, 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>

Dead plant weedy on forest margins.<br>Photographer: Marley Ford, 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>

Spikelet.<br>Photographer: Marley Ford, 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>

Trackside plant, Nihotupu Dam.<br>Photographer: Marley Ford, 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

Structural class

Sedges

Conservation status

Not applicable

Detailed taxonomy

Family

Cyperaceae

Authority

Carex punctata Gaudin

Ecology

Year naturalised

1980

Origin

West and South Europe to S.W. Sweden

Other information

Etymology

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

punctata: From the Latin punctatus ‘dotted’, referring to a patten of small round dots

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.

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