Difference between revisions of "Carex sect. Holarrhenae (Döll) Pax in H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl (Q226) "

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Carex sect. Holarrhenae (Döll) Pax

taxon name

Carex sect. Holarrhenae

(Döll) Pax

FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.

taxon status

accepted

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taxon name

Carex sect. Holarrhenae

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taxon authority

(Döll) Pax

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taxon rank

section

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taxon status

accepted

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VasCan taxon numeric id

2127

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parent taxon

Carex Linnaeus

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taxon habit

herb

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distribution

Temperate regions of Northern Hemisphere

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taxon description fragment

Plants not cespitose, long-rhizomatous.

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Culms brown at base.

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Leaves: basal sheaths not fibrous;

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blades V-shaped in cross-section when young, glabrous.

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Inflorescences racemose with 9–37 spikes;

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proximal bracts shortly leaflike, sheathless;

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spikes androgynous or unisexual, sessile, without prophylls.

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Proximal pistillate scales with apex obtuse to cuspidate.

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Perigynia erect, veined on both faces, sessile, broadly ovate, planoconvex, base rounded, margins sharply to narrowly winged, apex abruptly contracted to beak, glabrous;

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beak 0.4–1.9 (–2.3) mm, with abaxial suture, margins often serrulate, apex slightly bidentate.

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Stigmas 2.

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Achenes biconvex, smaller than bodies of perigynia;

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style deciduous.

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morphology statement

whole organism

growth form

cespitose

not

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whole organism

long-rhizomatous

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whole organism

growth form

plant

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leaf sheath

texture

fibrous

not

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leaf blade

v--shaped

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inflorescence

arrangement

racemose

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inflorescence peduncle bract

leaflike

shortly

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inflorescence peduncle bract

sheathless

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inflorescence flower scale

pistillate

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obtuse

cuspidate

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orientation

erect

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veined

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sessile

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ovate

broadly

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planoconvex

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inflorescence phyllaries base

rounded

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inflorescence palea margin

winged

sharply to narrowly

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condition

size

contracted

abruptly

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pubescence

glabrous

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fruit beak

atypical some measurement

1.9

2.3

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fruit beak

some measurement

0.4

1.9

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inflorescence palea margin

serrulate

often

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bidentate

slightly

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inflorescence flower gynoecium pistil stigma

quantity

2

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inflorescence flower gynoecium pistil style

duration

deciduous

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stem culm

coloration

brown

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quantity

9

37

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reproduction

androgynous

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reproduction

unisexual

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sessile

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fruit achene

biconvex

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fruit achene

size

smaller

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