Carex cordillerana Saarela & B. A. Ford (Q493)

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Carex cordillerana is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Phyllostachyae
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Carex cordillerana Saarela & B. A. Ford
Carex cordillerana is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Phyllostachyae

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    taxon/id/Carex cordillerana Saarela & B.A. Ford
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    Carex cordillerana Saarela & B.A. Ford
    Carex cordillerana
    Saarela & B.A. Ford
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex de la Cordillère (French)
    cordilleran sedge (English)
    mountain-range sedge (English)
    Cordilleran 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/
    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.
    rocky slopes
    organic layer
    leaf litter
    mesic mixed forests
    disturbed
    grassy slopes
    Culms 6.8–40 cm.
    Leaves: basal sheaths pale to medium brown;
    blades dull green to yellowish green, exceeding culms, 1.5–5.9 mm wide, widest ones 2–5.5 mm wide, herbaceous, margins green, papillose.
    Lateral spikes 0–3, basal, on erect peduncles.
    Terminal spikes with staminate portion 2–3-flowered, 1.7–2.6 × 0.4–0.9 mm;
    Pistillate scales yellowish green to dull olive green, margins green, 2.5–3 mm wide, essentially concealing perigynia, apex acute;
    distal scales ovate, apex acute.
    Staminate scales white or green, often with reddish-brown tinge, margins connate, sometimes for entire length, enfolding scales above, apex obtuse.
    Anthers 0.9–1.4 mm.
    Perigynia yellowish green to dull olive green, obovoid, 3.9–5.4 × 1.6–2.5 mm, tightly enveloping achenes, apex abruptly tapered;
    beak 0.5–1.6 mm, smooth.
    Stigmas clavate, erect, minutely papillose.
    Achenes brown, obpyriform, 2.8–3.5 × 1.5–2.4 mm.