Carex viridula Michaux (Q117)

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Carex viridula is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Ceratocystis
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Carex viridula Michaux
Carex viridula is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Ceratocystis

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    taxon/id/Carex viridula Michaux
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    Carex viridula Michaux
    Carex viridula
    Michaux
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    greenish sedge (English)
    green sedge (English)
    little green sedge (English)
    green-yellow sedge (English)
    carex verdâtre (French)
    Greenish sedge (English)
    carex verdâtre (English)
    Europe
    Africa (Morocco)
    Culms straight or arcuate, 2–85 cm.
    Leaves of flowering-stems shorter than to exceeding culms, to 20 cm × 0.8–5.4 mm;
    ligules on distal cauline leaves usually obsolete (except in 414.b Carex viridula subsp. brachyrrhyncha).
    Inflorescences: peduncles of terminal staminate spikes 0–28 mm;
    bracts to 18 cm × 0.6–3.4 mm;
    Spikes: proximal pistillate spikes 1–8, contiguous or proximal distant, sessile or short-pedunculate, globose to short-cylindric, 4–17.5 × 3–11 mm;
    terminal staminate spike sessile or pedunculate, 5–25 × 1–3.6 mm.
    Scales: pistillate scales pale-brown to reddish-brown, 1.4–3.2 × 0.8–1.7 mm, margins pale, narrow, hyaline;
    staminate scales reddish-brown, lanceolate to ovate, 2.3–5.2 × 0.7–2 mm, margins narrowly pale hyaline, apex obtuse to acuminate.
    Anthers 0.9–3.1 mm.
    Perigynia spreading, yellow to dark olive, 1.8–4.2 × 0.8–2 mm, apex gradually or abruptly narrowed;
    beak straight or reflexed less than 20°, 0.3–2.1 mm, scabrous or smooth.
    Achenes 1–1.8 × 0.7–1.4 mm.