Carex lasiocarpa Ehrhart (Q372)

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Carex lasiocarpa is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Paludosae
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Carex lasiocarpa Ehrhart
Carex lasiocarpa is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Paludosae

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    taxon/id/Carex lasiocarpa Ehrhart
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    Carex lasiocarpa Ehrhart
    Carex lasiocarpa
    Ehrhart
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex à fruits tomenteux (French)
    woolly-fruited sedge (English)
    woolly sedge (English)
    slender sedge (English)
    Wiregrass (English)
    carex à fruits tomenteux (English)
    sedge meadows
    lakeshores
    stream banks
    wet sites
    floating mats
    St. Pierre and Miquelon
    Eurasia
    rhizomes long-creeping.
    Culms lateral, trigonous, 40–120 cm, smooth or nearly so.
    Leaves: basal sheaths reddish purple, fibrillose, bladeless, apex of inner band glabrous;
    ligules 1–2.5 (–3.5) mm;
    blades gray-green, proximal portion of blade involute or gutter-shaped, becoming narrowly triangular-channeled, blades of vegetative shoots prolonged to curled, filiform tip, midveins of blades and proximal bracts low and rounded, forming inconspicuous keel, 0.7–2 (–2.2) mm, glabrous.
    Inflorescences 6–20 cm;
    peduncles of terminal spikes (0.8–) 2–9 cm;
    proximal 1–2 (–3) spikes pistillate, ascending;
    terminal 1–3 spikes staminate.
    Pistillate scales lanceolate to ovate, apex acute to acuminate-awned, glabrous or, often, ciliate or finely scabrous-margined apically.
    Perigynia ascending, veins esentially concealed, broadly ellipsoid, 3–4.3 × 1.5–2.2 mm, densely pubescent, obscuring cellular details and veination;
    beak 0.5–1.1 mm, firm, bidentulate, teeth straight, 0.2–0.7 mm. 2n = 56.