Carex richardsonii R. Brown in J. Franklin et al. (Q144)

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Carex richardsonii is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Clandestinae
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Carex richardsonii R. Brown in J. Franklin et al.
Carex richardsonii is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Clandestinae

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    taxon/id/Carex richardsonii R. Brown
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    Carex richardsonii R. Brown
    Carex richardsonii
    R. Brown
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex de Richardson (French)
    Richardson's sedge (English)
    prairie hummock sedge (English)
    Richardson’s sedge (English)
    carex de Richardson (English)
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    Klinkenberg, B. (ed.). 2010+. E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Plants of British Columbia. Lab. for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. http://www.eflora.bc.ca http://www.eflora.bc.ca/
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    Packer, J.G. & A.J. Gould. 2017.Vascular Plants of Alberta. Part 1: Ferns, Fern Allies, Gymnospermes, and Monocots. University of Calgary Press, Calgary.
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    Harms, V.L. 2006. Annotated catalogue of Saskatchewan vascular plants. http://www.biodiversity.sk.ca/Docs/AnnotatedCatalogueSKVascPlants2006.pdf
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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/
    1 reference
    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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    Porsild, A.E. & W.J. Cody. 1980. Vascular Plants of the Continental Northwest Territories, Canada. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa, Ont. 667 pp.
    the season
    open woodlands
    alvars
    floodplain edges
    prairies
    acidic outcrops
    50–1400 m
    Plants loosely cespitose, long-rhizomatous.
    Culms 14–32 cm.
    Leaves: basal sheaths dark purplish to reddish-brown;
    blades mostly basal, pale green, shorter than culms, thick, 0.9–3.3 mm wide.
    Inflorescences: peduncles of proximal pistillate spikes to 7 cm;
    peduncles of terminal staminate spikes 3.3–15.7 mm;
    proximal bracts long-sheathing;
    pistillate spikes 2–4, emerging from cauline nodes, widely separated, ascending, ovoid to ellipsoid or short-cylindric;
    terminal staminate spikes 17.4–23 × 2.5–3.8 mm.
    Scales: pistillate scales reddish-brown, ovate, apex acute to obtuse, glabrous;
    staminate scales reddish-brown, ovate to obovate, margins silvery-white, apex acute to shortacuminate, scarious.
    Anthers 2.1–2.6 mm.
    Perigynia obovoid to oblanceoloid, 2.4–2.9 × 1–1.3 mm, base tapering, pubescent with straight white hairs;
    beak straight, 0.2–0.5 mm.
    Stigmas 3, flexuous, thin, strongly papillose.
    Achenes ellipsoid to obovoid, 1.7–1.8 × 1.1–1.2 mm. 2n = 52.