Carex phaeocephala Piper (Q346)

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Carex phaeocephala is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Ovales
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Carex phaeocephala Piper
Carex phaeocephala is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Ovales

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    taxon/id/Carex phaeocephala Piper
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    Carex phaeocephala Piper
    Carex phaeocephala
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex à tête brune (French)
    dunhead sedge (English)
    brown-head sedge (English)
    hare sedge (English)
    mountain hare sedge (English)
    head-like sedge (English)
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    Klinkenberg, B. (ed.). 2010+. E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Plants of British Columbia. Lab. for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. http://www.eflora.bc.ca http://www.eflora.bc.ca/
    1 reference
    Packer, J.G. & A.J. Gould. 2017.Vascular Plants of Alberta. Part 1: Ferns, Fern Allies, Gymnospermes, and Monocots. University of Calgary Press, Calgary.
    1 reference
    Cody, W.J. 2000. Flora of the Yukon Territory. 2nd ed. National Research Press, Ottawa. 669 pp.
    high-montane to alpine areas
    rocky soils
    1200–4000 m
    Plants densely cespitose.
    Culms (5–) 15–45 cm.
    Leaves: sheaths adaxially white-hyaline, summits U-shaped or rounded, often prolonged to 2.5 (–3) mm beyond collar;
    distal ligules 1.5–2.5 (–3) mm;
    blades 3–5 per fertile culm, often channeled, occasionally folded, becoming trigonous toward tip, 5–20 cm × 1–2.5 (–3) mm, if not folded, margins revolute.
    Inflorescences usually dense, stiff, gold to brown or brown and green, 1.5–3.5 (–4) cm × 10–15 mm;
    proximal internode 4–10 mm;
    2d internode 2–5 mm;
    proximal bracts scalelike to bristlelike, shorter than inflorescences.
    Spikes (3–) 4–7, distant, distinct, ovoid to broadly ovoid, 12–15 × 5.5–8 mm, base rounded to attenuate, apex acute to truncate.
    Pistillate scales gold or brown, usually with pale to green midstripe, lanceolate to ovate, 3.7–5.1 mm, usually ± equaling and covering perigynia, margin white-hyaline, 0.1–0.3 mm wide, apex acute to acuminate.
    Anthers early deciduous or short-persistent.
    Perigynia ascending, greenish or pale gold to brown, conspicuously (0–) 4–9-veined abaxially, conspicuously 0 (–4) -veined adaxially, narrowly ovate to broadly ovate, flat or planoconvex, 3.8–5.2 × 1.5–2.3 mm, 0.4–0.5 mm thick, margin flat, including wing 0.3–0.5 mm wide, ciliate-serulate at least on distal body, not crinkled, without glossy metallic sheen;
    beak brown to redbrown or gold with white-hyaline tip, cylindric, unwinged, ± entire for 0.6 mm, abaxial suture with conspicuous white margin, distance from beak tip to achene 1.8–2.2 mm.