Carex platyphylla J. Carey (Q112)

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Carex platyphylla is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Careyanae
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Carex platyphylla J. Carey
Carex platyphylla is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Careyanae

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    taxon/id/Carex platyphylla J. Carey
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    Carex platyphylla J. Carey
    Carex platyphylla
    J. Carey
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex à larges feuilles (French)
    broad-leaved sedge (English)
    broad-leaved wood sedge (English)
    thicket sedge (English)
    Carex à larges feuilles (English)
    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/
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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.
    moist deciduous forests
    gravelly slopes
    limestone
    calcareous metamorphic rocks
    clay soils
    Plants densely cespitose.
    Culms lateral, ascending, lax, or decumbent, very slender, 14–38 cm × 0.2–0.5 mm.
    Leaves: basal sheaths white or light-brown;
    sheaths green, lighter to white at base, 1–22 mm;
    blades erect, ascending, or lax, grayish blue-green, midrib strongly developed, 2 lateral-veins developed, 5–22 cm × (7–) 11–28 mm, older leaves shriveling or dead at tips.
    Inflorescences: spikes (2–) 3 (–4) per culm, scattered;
    peduncles of pistillate spikes exserted 0–2.2 cm;
    of staminate spikes 0.1–0.8 cm;
    Pistillate spikes: the proximal basal, erect, 6–16 × 2.8–3.8 mm.
    Staminate spike 1, linear-clavate, 6–14 × 2–4 mm.
    Pistillate scales keeled, 3–6 × 1.8–2.2 mm, midribs green, margins hyaline or brown tinged outward, apex apicluate or aristate, awn to 2 mm.
    Staminate scales obovate, 2.7–5 × 1.8–2.2 mm, midribs green, margins hyaline and brownish to purple-tinged outward, apex obtuse to acute.
    Anthers 3.3–4 mm.
    Perigynia 2–9 per spike, overlapping, ascending, finely many-veined, obovoid, 3–3.2 × 1.8–2 mm;
    beak short curved.
    Achenes ovoid, 2.8–3 × 1.6–1.8 mm, slightly concave at maturity, tightly fitting in perigynia.
    2n = 68, 70, n = 32 + (3), 33 + (3), 33 + (4).