Carex digitalis Willdenow (Q106)

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Carex digitalis is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Careyanae
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Carex digitalis Willdenow
Carex digitalis is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Careyanae

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    taxon/id/Carex digitalis Willdenow
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    Carex digitalis Willdenow
    Carex digitalis
    Willdenow
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    slender woodland sedge (English)
    slender wood sedge (English)
    narrow-leaved wood sedge (English)
    carex digital (French)
    Carex digital (English)
    temperate e North America
    Plants densely cespitose.
    Culms erect or ascending, 7–52 cm × 0.5–1 mm.
    Leaves: basal sheaths white or light-brown;
    nonbasal sheaths green, 8–37 mm;
    blades green, 8–44 cm × 0.8–5 mm, shorter than or overtopping culm, 0.5–1.3 (–1.8) times as tall as tallest flowering culm;
    blades of vegetative shoots 1–3.5 times wider than bract blades.
    Inflorescences: spikes (2–) 4 per culm, scattered;
    peduncles of pistillate spikes 0.5–10.2 cm;
    of staminate spike 0.4–8.7 cm.
    Bracts 2.2–11.4 cm × 1–3 mm.
    Pistillate spikes: proximal usually basal, erect, ascending, or drooping, short to long pedunclulate, 6–18 × 4–5 mm.
    Staminate spike 1, linear to linear-clavate, 11–24 × (1–) 1.2–2.7 mm.
    Pistillate scales keeled, 1.8–2 × 1–1.2 mm, midribs green, margins hyaline, apex acute, proximal scales of lateral spikes subtending perigyinia.
    Staminate scales oblong, 2–3.6 (–5.5) × 1–1.5 mm, midribs green, margins hyaline, frequently brown tinged, apex acute.
    Anthers 2–3.3 mm.
    Perigynia 3–9 per spike, finely veined, obovoid, 2–4.2 × 1.2–1.8 mm;
    Achenes obovoid, 1.8–2.8 × 1–1.6 mm, sides plane or slightly concave at maturity, tightly fitting perigynia.
    Style slender, ascending through entire orifice.