Carex xerantica L. H. Bailey (Q363)

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Carex xerantica is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Ovales
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Carex xerantica L. H. Bailey
Carex xerantica is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Ovales

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    taxon/id/Carex xerantica L.H. Bailey
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    Carex xerantica L.H. Bailey
    Carex xerantica
    L.H. Bailey
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex des terrains secs (French)
    dryland sedge (English)
    white-scaled 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
    Harms, V.L. 2006. Annotated catalogue of Saskatchewan vascular plants. http://www.biodiversity.sk.ca/Docs/AnnotatedCatalogueSKVascPlants2006.pdf
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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/
    1 reference
    Bennett, B., P.M. Catling, W.J. Cody & G.W. Argus. 2010. New records of vascular plants in the Yukon Territory VIII. Canadian Field Naturalist 124 (1): 1-27. http://canadianfieldnaturalist.ca/index.php/cfn/article/view/1025
    dry grasslands
    rock outcrops
    talus slopes
    Plants densely cespitose.
    Leaves: sheaths adaxially white-hyaline, summits U-shaped, occasionally shortly prolonged beyond collar;
    distal ligules 0.8–1 mm;
    blades 3–5 per fertile culm, often folded, 3.5–20 cm × 1–3 mm.
    Inflorescences stiffly erect, open or spikes loosely aggregate, if open, sometimes arching, whitish to pale-brown, 1.5–5 cm × 5–10 mm;
    proximal internode 5–10 mm;
    2d internode 4–8 mm;
    proximal bracts scalelike to bristlelike, shorter than inflorescences.
    Spikes 3–5, distant, distinct, ovoid-ellipsoid, 7–14 × 3–8 mm, base tapered to attenuate, apex acute.
    Pistillate scales whitish to yellowish, with 1-veined, green to gold midstripe, or white almost throughout at maturity, ovate, 4.4–6 mm, longer and as wide as and concealing perigynia, margin hyaline, 0.3–0.7 mm wide, apex acute.
    Perigynia essentially erect, pale yellowish-brown, often with green beak, 8–10-veined abaxially, veinless or indistinctly 8–10-veined adaxially, ovate to broadly ovate, planoconvex or thickly concavo-convex, 3.8–4.8 × 1.4–2.2 mm, 0.5–0.6 mm thick, margin flat, including wing 0.2–0.4 mm wide, ciliate-serrulate at least on distal body;
    beak white-hyaline at tip, flat, ± ciliate-serrulate to the bidentate apex, abaxial suture inconspicuous or white-hyaline, distance from beak tip to achene 1.4–2.2 mm.