Carex woodii Dewey (Q384)

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Carex woodii is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Paniceae
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Carex woodii Dewey
Carex woodii is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Paniceae

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    taxon/id/Carex woodii Dewey
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    Carex woodii Dewey
    Carex woodii
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex de Wood (French)
    Wood's sedge (English)
    Wood's stiff sedge (English)
    pretty sedge (English)
    purple-tinged sedge (English)
    1 reference
    Newmaster, S.G. & S. Ragupathy. 2005. Flora Ontario - Integrated Botanical Information System (FOIBIS), Phase I. University of Guelph, Canada. http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis/
    calcareous woodlands
    Plants colonial, long-rhizomatous, arial shoots 2.5–18 cm apart.
    Culms 30–70 cm, smooth to scabrous distally.
    Leaves: proximal sheaths bladeless, purple-tinged, slender, 1.2–3.5 mm diam.;
    ligules 0.5–2 mm, wider than long;
    largest blades green, flat, 5–25 cm × 1.8–3 (–4) mm, herbaceous.
    Inflorescences 5–13 cm, 1.1–2.6 times longer than proximal bract;
    proximal bracts 3–10.5 cm, sheath 0.5–3 cm, blade 2.5–5.5 cm;
    pistillate spikes loosely flowered, linear, 1–3.5 cm × 3–5 mm;
    lateral spikes erect or ascending on stiff peduncles.
    Pistillate scales mostly white hyaline or purplish brown, apex obtuse or awned.
    Perigynia ascending to spreading, green to brown, stipitate, 2.5–4 × 1–2 mm, minutely papillose near beak;
    beak very short, strongly bent.
    Achenes yellowish-brown, 2–2.5 × 1.2–1.4 mm. 2n = 44.