Carex laeviconica Dewey (Q102)

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

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    taxon/id/Carex laeviconica Dewey
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    Carex laeviconica Dewey
    Carex laeviconica
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex à cône lisse (French)
    smooth-cone sedge (English)
    long-toothed lake sedge (English)
    plains slough sedge (English)
    1 reference
    Harms, V.L. 2006. Annotated catalogue of Saskatchewan vascular plants. http://www.biodiversity.sk.ca/Docs/AnnotatedCatalogueSKVascPlants2006.pdf
    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/
    openings
    bottomland
    lowland forests
    marshes
    wet meadows
    wet thickets
    wet prairies
    savannas
    Culms trigonous in cross-section, (25–) 30–110 cm;
    vegetative culms hard, solid with parenchyma, taller than fertile culms.
    Leaves: basal sheaths reddish purple, inner bands fibrillose with age;
    sheaths with apex of inner band pale to dark-brown, translucent between veins, strongly veined, becoming ladder-fibrillose, glabrous, veins scabrous;
    ligules 2–12 (–17) mm;
    blades 3–6 mm wide, glabrous, not papillose abaxially.
    Inflorescences (9–) 15–65 cm;
    spikes erect or ascending;
    proximal 2–4 spikes pistillate;
    terminal 2–5 spikes staminate.
    Pistillate scales lanceolate to narrowly ovate, apex acute to acuminate, scabrous-awned, otherwise glabrous.
    Staminate scales lanceolate to narrowly ovate, apex obtuse to acuminate, occasionally with scabrous awn, glabrous.
    Perigynia 12–26-veined, (4.4–) 4.8–8.4 × 1.8–3.3 mm, glabrous or scabrous on veins;
    beak straight to slightly spreading, 1.7–3.8 mm, glabrous or sparsely scabrous-pubescent, teeth (0.8–) 1.1–2.3 mm.