Species

Carex muricata

Etymology

Carex: Latin name for a species of sedge, now applied to the whole group.
muricata: furnished with numerous short hard excrescences

Family

Cyperaceae

Flora Category

Vascular - Exotic

NVS Species Code

CARMRC

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.

Structural Class

Sedges

Year Naturalised

1945

Origin

Europe

This page last updated on 18 Jan 2010