Carex luzulina Olney (Q85)

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Carex luzulina is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Aulocystis
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Carex luzulina Olney
Carex luzulina is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Aulocystis

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    taxon/id/Carex luzulina Olney
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    Carex luzulina Olney
    Carex luzulina
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    woodrush sedge (English)
    wing-seed sedge (English)
    spring sedge (English)
    carex fausse-luzule (French)
    Plants densely or loosely cespitose;
    rhizomes short, thick or thin.
    Inflorescences with 3–7 spikes;
    peduncles of proximal spikes exserted (0.5–) 1 cm;
    proximal bracts with blades 12–80 mm, sheaths cylindric, 12–58 mm, mouth not purple-banded, 0.6–2 mm wide.
    Lateral spikes pistillate or androgynous, erect to pendent, purple or purple and brown, 12–32 × 5–10 mm;.
    Terminal spike staminate, ± erect, 11–66 × 3–8 mm.
    Pistillate scales redbrown to dark purple with paler midvein, ovate to obovate, 1.9–3.5 × 1–1.7 mm, apex acute or obtuse.
    Staminate scales gold to purple-brown with pale, 2.9–4.5 × 0.7–1.6 mm, midvein ciliate, margins scarious, apex obtuse.
    Anthers (1.9–) 2–3 mm.
    Perigynia ascending to spreading, green to purple, indistinctly or distinctly 9-20-veined, (3–) 3.5–5.5 × 0.9–1.6 (–1.8) mm, usually without flat margins around achene, usually glabrous, margins often ciliate-setose distally;
    beak 0.5–1.5 mm, tip dark purple, often ciliate-setose, distance from perigynium beak tip to achene apex less than 2.5 mm.
    Achenes ± obovoid, 1.3–2 × 0.7–1.1 mm.