Carex amplifolia Boott in W. J. Hooker (Q80)

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Carex amplifolia is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Anomalae
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Carex amplifolia Boott in W. J. Hooker
Carex amplifolia is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Anomalae

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    taxon/id/Carex amplifolia Boott
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    Carex amplifolia Boott
    Carex amplifolia
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex à grandes feuilles (French)
    big-leaved sedge (English)
    ample-leaved 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/
    swamps
    wet meadows
    other at least wet places
    ditches
    clearings
    streams
    conifer
    forests
    western hemlock
    douglas fir
    engelmann
    ponderosa pine
    Culms tinged reddish at base, 50–100 (–130) cm.
    Leaves: sheaths ± hispidulous abaxially;
    ligules 3–30 (–65) mm;
    blades light or glaucous green, (10–) 20–60 (–80) cm × 8–20 (–23) mm, those of sterile shoots to 20 mm wide, glabrous adaxially except on veins toward apex.
    Spikes 5–8, narrowly oblong to slenderly cylindric;
    proximal spikes separate, pedunculate, others approximate, short-pedunculate or subsessile;
    staminate spikes 5–9.5 cm;
    pistillate spikes mostly ca. 40–470-flowered (405–705-flowered if branched), (1.5–) 3.5–14 cm × (2.5–) 3.5–6.5 mm.
    Pistillate scales from longer to shorter than perigynia, the proximal short-awned, others acute (or all mucronate to awned), entire.
    Perigynia brownish green, 2-ribbed, otherwise veinless or inconspicuously 1–7-veined, obovoid, subinflated, collapsing and becoming obtusely triangular, 2.4–3.1 mm, glabrous;
    beak 0.7–1.1 mm, erose (scarcely bidentulate).
    Achenes broadly obovoid, 1.5–1.7 × 1–1.3 mm.