Carex comosa Boott (Q570)
Carex comosa is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Vesicariae
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Carex comosa is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Vesicariae
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taxon/id/Carex comosa Boott
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Carex comosa Boott
Carex comosa
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FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
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CA-BC
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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/
CA-ON
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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/
CA-QC
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Marie-Victorin, Fr. 1995. Flore laurentienne. 3e éd. Mise à jour et annotée par L. Brouillet, S.G. Hay, I. Goulet, M. Blondeau, J. Cayouette et J. Labrecque. Gaétan Morin éditeur. 1093 pp.
CA-NB
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Hinds, H.R. 2000. Flora of New Brunswick : a manual for the identification of the vascular plants of New Brunswick. 2nd edition. Biology Department, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. 699 pp.
CA-NS
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Zinck, M. 1998. Roland's Flora of Nova Scotia. Nimber Publishing & Nova Scotia Museum. Halifax, N. S. 2 vols. 1297 pp.
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Plants densely to loosely cespitose;
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rhizomes short, no more than 10 cm.
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Culms trigonous in cross-section, 50–120 cm, scabrous distally.
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Leaves: basal sheaths pale-brown;
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ligules usually much longer than wide;
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blades mid to dark green, flat to W-shaped, 5–16 mm wide, glabrous.
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Inflorescences 4–35 cm;
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proximal bract 15–85 cm, much longer than inflorescence;
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proximal (2–) 3–6 spikes pistillate, erect or the proximal pendent, cylindric, 12–18 mm thick;
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terminal staminate or, sometimes, gynaecandrous, androgynous, or mixed.
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Pistillate scales lanceolate-acuminate, 2.8–12 × 0.4–1 mm, all but the proximal shorter than perigynia, margins ciliate, apex tapering to long scabrous awn.
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Staminate scales scabrous-awned, sometimes ciliate-margined.
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Perigynia spreading to reflexed when mature, strongly 14–22-veined, most veins separated by less than 2 times their width, confluent at or proximal to mid beak, tightly investing achene, narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, (4.8–) 6.2–8.7 × 1.1–1.8 mm, leathery, apex gradually tapered;
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beak poorly defined, 2–3.8 mm, bidentate, teeth outcurved, 1.3–2.1 (–2.8) mm.
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Achenes pale-brown, trigonous, smooth.
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usually much longer than wide
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