Carex vallicola Dewey (Q489)

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Carex vallicola is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Phaestoglochin
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Carex vallicola Dewey
Carex vallicola is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Phaestoglochin

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    taxon/id/Carex vallicola Dewey
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    Carex vallicola Dewey
    Carex vallicola
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex vallicole (French)
    valley sedge (English)
    1 reference
    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/
    Mexico (Hidalgo)
    dry to mesic hillsides
    grasslands
    thickets
    open forests
    Plants without conspicuous rhizomes.
    Culms 12–60 cm, 1–1.3 mm wide basally, 0.5–1 mm wide distally.
    Leaves: sheaths tight, green, fronts hyaline;
    ligules less than 2 mm, wider than long;
    widest leaf-blades 1–3 mm wide, papillose adaxially.
    Inflorescences with 5–10 crowded spikes, 0.5–3 cm × 5–8 mm;
    proximal bracts to 1 (–3) cm;
    spikes with 2–10 ascending perigynia.
    Pistillate scales hyaline or pale-brown with green 1–3-veined center, ovate, 2.8–3.2 × 1.8–2.6 mm, body slightly shorter than to length of perigynium, apex acute to short-awned.
    Anthers 1.8–2.3 mm.
    Perigynia brown, abaxial face 7–15-veined proximally, otherwise veinless or obscurely veined, 3.3–4 × 1.8–2.3 mm, base of perigynium spongy, thickened and longitudinally striate adaxially, spongy region 0.7–1 mm, margins serrulate to subentire distally;
    beak 0.5–1 mm, apical teeth 0.1–0.3 mm.
    Stigmas straight or slightly twisted, 0.05 mm wide.
    Achenes ovate to circular, 1.6–2.7 × 1.5–2 mm.