Carex ovalis Goodenough (Q619)

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Carex ovalis is a synonym of Carex leporina Linnaeus
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Carex ovalis Goodenough
Carex ovalis is a synonym of Carex leporina Linnaeus

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    taxon/id/Carex ovalis Goodenough
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    Carex des lièvres (English)
    St. Pierre and Miquelon
    Eurasia
    New Zealand
    Plants densely cespitose.
    Culms (24–) 35–85 cm.
    Leaves: sheath adaxially white-hyaline, summits U-shaped to rounded;
    distal ligules 2–3 mm;
    blades (1–) 2–4 (–5) per fertile culm, flat ± to tip, 7–22 cm × (1.5–) 2–3.5 (–4) mm.
    Inflorescences stiffly erect, usually open, brown, 1.5–4 cm × 10–15 mm;
    proximal internode (2.5–) 4–10 mm;
    2d internode (2.5–) 3–6 mm;
    proximal bracts scalelike or bristlelike, shorter than inflorescences.
    Spikes 5–9, usually loosely aggregated, ovoid to broadly ovoid, 9–14 × 6–8 mm, base attenuate, apex rounded to tapered.
    Pistillate scales reddish gold to brown or greenish, often white-hyaline at tip or base, with pale or green midstripe, narrowly to broadly ovate, 3.4–5 mm, length and width less or greater than perigynia, margin not white-hyaline, apex acute to acuminate.
    Perigynia ascending to ascending-spreading, gold to light-brown, conspicuously 3–9-veined abaxially, conspicuously 2–5-veined adaxially, lanceolate to ovate, usually flat except over achene, 3.4–4.7 (–5.2) × 1.3–2.1 mm, 0.4–0.5 mm thick, margin flat, including wing 0.2–0.6 mm wide;
    beak redbrown or gold at tip, usually cylindric, unwinged, ± entire for 0.3–0.5 mm, sometimes flat, ciliate-serrulate to tip, abaxial suture often with conspicuous white margin, distance from beak tip to achene (1.2–) 1.5–2 mm.
    2n = 62, 64, 66, 68.