Carex sabulosa Turczaninow ex Kunth (Q526)

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Carex sabulosa is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Racemosae
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Carex sabulosa Turczaninow ex Kunth
Carex sabulosa is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Racemosae

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    taxon/id/Carex sabulosa Turczaninow ex Kunth
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    Carex sabulosa Turczaninow ex Kunth
    Carex sabulosa
    Turczaninow ex Kunth
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex des sables (French)
    Baikal sedge (English)
    sand sedge (English)
    1 reference
    Cody, W.J. 2000. Flora of the Yukon Territory. 2nd ed. National Research Press, Ottawa. 669 pp.
    Asia (Kazakhstan)
    Asia (Mongolia)
    Asia (Russia)
    riverine sand exposures
    dune fields
    Plants cespitose, long-creeping rhizomatous.
    Culms 25–35 cm, smooth.
    Leaves 2–3 mm wide, often circinate.
    Inflorescences: proximal bracts shorter than or exceeding inflorescences;
    spikes globose or elongate, 6–17 × 6–10 mm;
    proximal spikes sometimes erect, separate, short-pedunculate;
    distal spikes contiguous, overlapping, or erect, sessile or short-pendunculate, forming dense terminal cluster;
    lateral 1–2 (–4) spikes pistillate;
    terminal spike gynecandrous.
    Pistillate scales light to dark-brown or chestnut, distal margins broadly hyaline, lanceolate, equaling or, more commonly, exceeding and narrower than perigynia, midvein lighter colored than body, conspicuous, often raised, prominent, apex acute or mucronate.
    Perigynia ascending, light-brown, strongly veined, broadly elliptic, 4–5 × 2–3 mm, apex abruptly beaked, smooth or distally papillose;
    beak 0.6–0.8 mm, deeply, sharply bidentate, smooth or papillose.