Carex epapillosa Mackenzie in P. A. Rydberg (Q516)

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Carex epapillosa is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Racemosae
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Carex epapillosa Mackenzie in P. A. Rydberg
Carex epapillosa is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Racemosae

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    taxon/id/Carex epapillosa Mackenzie
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    Carex epapillosa Mackenzie
    Carex epapillosa
    Mackenzie
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex sans papilles (French)
    blackened sedge (English)
    dark sedge (English)
    black 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.
    stream margins
    open forest
    moist subpalpine
    alpine meadows
    2000–3700 m
    Plants densely cespitose.
    Culms to 25–60 (–100) cm, smooth.
    Leaves 2–6 mm wide.
    Inflorescences: proximal bracts shorter than or exceeding inflorescences;
    spikes oblong or clavate, 10–25 × 6–8 mm;
    proximal spikes separate, usually pendent, often long-pendunculate;
    distal ones overlapping, erect, contiguous, short-pendunculate;
    lateral 3–5 spikes pistillate;
    terminal spike gynecandrous, 1/4 or less staminate.
    Pistillate scales light to dark-brown, margins hyaline, lanceolate, typically equaling or longer, sometimes shorter and narrower than perigynia, midvein dark, same color as body, inconspicuous, frequently raised, prominent, apex acute to short-mucronate.
    Perigynia ascending, light to dark-brown with light-brown margins, veinless, obovate or circular, 3.5–4 × 2–3 mm, apex abruptly beaked, smooth;
    beak 0.3–0.5 mm, shallowly or deeply bidentate, smooth.
    Achenes filling proximal 1/2 or less of perigynia.