Carex gracilescens Steudel (Q274)
Carex gracilescens is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Laxiflorae
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Carex gracilescens Steudel
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Carex gracilescens is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Laxiflorae
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taxon/id/Carex gracilescens Steudel
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Carex gracilescens Steudel
Carex gracilescens
Steudel
FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
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CA-ON
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Newmaster, S.G. & S. Ragupathy. 2005. Flora Ontario - Integrated Botanical Information System (FOIBIS), Phase I. University of Guelph, Canada. http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis/
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Herbier Marie-Victorin (MT). Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC. Specimen. http://www.biodiversite.umontreal.ca/herbier-marie-victorin?lang=en
Culms densely tufted, ascending, lax or, occasionally, decumbent, 13–78 cm × 0.8–1 mm.
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Leaves: basal sheaths purple or purple-tinged;
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blades ascending or lax, erect, green or yellow-green, midrib developed adaxially, 2 lateral-veins abaxially, 19–38 cm × 1–5 mm, blades of overwintering leaves smooth.
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Inflorescences: peduncles proximal pistillate spikes to 11 cm, distal spike sessile;
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staminate spike 0.5–10.6 cm.
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Bracts 0.5–11.2 cm × 0.5–4 mm, angles of bract sheath denticulate;
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bract blade of distal lateral spikes linear, narrower than spikes, not concealing them;
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widest bract blade of distalmost lateral spike 0.5–3.4 mm wide.
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Spikes (3–) 4 (–5) per culm;
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lateral spikes 5–27 × 3–4 mm;
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internode between proximal scales in proximal spike 1.1–3.2 (–4.8) mm;
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terminal spike linear, 11–21 × 1–2.2 mm.
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Pistillate scales 2.8–3 × 1–1.2 mm, apex acute to aristate, awn to 1 mm.
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Staminate scales 3.5–4 × 1.2–1.5 mm, margins hyaline, purple-brown or brownish purple-tinged, apex acute.
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Anthers 2.6–3 mm.
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Perigynia 4–12 per spike, closely overlapping, aggregated, ascending, conspicuously (22–) 25–32-veined, elliptic-obovate, 2.8–3 × 1.5–1.8 mm, 1.8–2.7 times long as wide;
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beak abruptly bent, 0.2–0.8 mm.
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Achenes obovoid, 2.6–2.8 × 1.3–1.6 mm. 2n = 33, 38, 40.
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