Carex hostiana de Candolle (Q116)

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Carex hostiana is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Ceratocystis
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Carex hostiana de Candolle
Carex hostiana is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Ceratocystis

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    taxon/id/Carex hostiana de Candolle
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    Carex hostiana de Candolle
    Carex hostiana
    de Candolle
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex de Host (French)
    laiche de Host (French)
    laîche blonde (French)
    tawny sedge (English)
    Host's sedge (English)
    Tawny sedge (English)
    carex de Host (English)
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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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    Etcheberry, R. 1989. Plantes de Saint-Pierre et Miquelon. Unpublished list (MT).
    St. Pierre and Miquelon
    Europe
    Newfoundland, CA
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    Meades, S., S.G. Hay & L. Brouillet. 2000. Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Newfoundland and Labrador. Published in association with A Digital Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador Vascular Plants. http://www.digitalnaturalhistory.com/meades.htm (consulted 2009-09-02) http://www.digitalnaturalhistory.com/meades.htm
    moist to wet
    moist to open fens
    meadows
    lime-rich soils
    Plants not cespitose.
    Culms straight, 25–60 cm.
    Leaves of flowering-stems shorter than stem, to 13.5 cm × 1.5–3.1 (–4.3) mm.
    Inflorescences: peduncles of staminate spikes 5–70 mm;
    bracts 90 × 0.7–2.2 mm;
    inner band of sheaths with brown, convex projection to 3.2 mm.
    Spikes: proximal pistillate spikes 1–3 (–4), distant, erect or ascending, usually conspicuously pedunculate, ovoid to short-cylindric, proximal 10–20 × 5–9.5 mm;
    terminal staminate spikes 10–33 × 1.6–4.2 mm.
    Scales: pistillate scales dark-brown, 2.1–3.9 × 1.4–2.4 mm, margins conspicuously white-hyaline;
    staminate scales with broad, white, hyaline margins.
    Anthers 2–3.6 mm.
    Perigynia ascending, yellowish, 3.1–5.5 × 1.2–2.1 mm, apex gradually narrowed into straight, serrulate beak;
    beak 0.7–1.6 mm.
    Achenes 1.5–2 × 1–1.5 mm.