Carex plantaginea Lamarck in J. Lamarck et al. (Q111)

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Carex plantaginea is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Careyanae
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Carex plantaginea Lamarck in J. Lamarck et al.
Carex plantaginea is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Careyanae

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    taxon/id/Carex plantaginea Lamarck
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    Carex plantaginea Lamarck
    Carex plantaginea
    Lamarck
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex plantain (French)
    plantain-leaved sedge (English)
    plantain-leaved wood sedge (English)
    seersucker sedge (English)
    Carex plantain (English)
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    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/
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    Marie-Victorin, Fr. 1995. Flore laurentienne. 3e éd. Mise à jour et annotée par L. Brouillet, S.G. Hay, I. Goulet, M. Blondeau, J. Cayouette et J. Labrecque. Gaétan Morin éditeur. 1093 pp.
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    Hinds, H.R. 2000. Flora of New Brunswick : a manual for the identification of the vascular plants of New Brunswick. 2nd edition. Biology Department, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. 699 pp.
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    Zinck, M. 1998. Roland's Flora of Nova Scotia. Nimber Publishing & Nova Scotia Museum. Halifax, N. S. 2 vols. 1297 pp.
    deciduous
    mixed deciduous-evergreen forests
    slopes
    streams
    moist depressions
    mountain gorges
    Plants densely cespitose.
    Culms lateral, erect or ascending, usually overtopping vegetative shoots, 24–54 cm × 0.7–1 mm.
    Leaves: basal sheaths purple, 7–18 mm;
    blades erect or ascending, evergreen, midrib and 2 lateral-veins strongly developed, 14–42 cm × 8–32 mm, older leaves often shriveling or dead at tips.
    Inflorescences: spikes 3–5 per culm, scattered;
    peduncle of pistillate spikes erect or spreading, rarely drooping, exserted 0–18 mm;
    bracts from middle and proximal portions of culms reduced, 0.8–2 cm × 2–3.5 mm.
    Pistillate spikes the proximal basal, 8–30 × 4–7 mm.
    Staminate spike 1, pedunculate, oblanceolate to linear, 8–20 × 2–3.5 mm.
    Pistillate scales slightly keeled, 3.2–4.2 × 1.8–2.2 mm, midribs green, margins hyaline with purple outward, apex cuspidate to acuminate to acute.
    Staminate scales 3–6 × 1.5–2 mm, midveins green or purple, margins dark purple, apex obtuse.
    Anthers 3.2–4.2 mm.
    Perigynia (4–) 9–13 (–15) per spike, overlapping, finely veined, elliptic, 3.7–4.9 × 1.6–2 mm;
    beak constricted.
    Achenes ovoid, 2.2–2.7 × 1.5–1.9 mm, sides flat to slightly concave at maturity, tightly fitting in perigynia.