Carex laeviculmis Meinshausen (Q155)

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Carex laeviculmis is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Deweyanae
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Carex laeviculmis Meinshausen
Carex laeviculmis is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Deweyanae

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    taxon/id/Carex laeviculmis Meinshausen
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    Carex laeviculmis Meinshausen
    Carex laeviculmis
    Meinshausen
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex à tige lisse (French)
    smooth-stemmed sedge (English)
    smooth sedge (English)
    1 reference
    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/
    streams
    swampy forests
    wet meadows
    marshes
    Plants densely cespitose.
    Culms 14–66 cm × 0.4–1 mm, smooth or scabriduous.
    Leaves: ligules 2.7–6.9 mm, 2.5–6 times as long as wide;
    blades 0.9–2.3 mm wide, widest blade 1.3–2 (–2.3) mm wide.
    Inflorescences 16–58 (–87) mm;
    proximal internode 5.7–32 (–46) mm;
    proximal bracts 3.8–18 (–34) mm, awn 0.4–15 (–31) mm;
    spikes 4–6 (–7), usually gynecandrous, sometimes pistillate;
    lateral spikes with 0–5 staminate and 8–18 pistillate flowers, longest proximal spike 5.5–9.8 × 4–5.6 mm;
    terminal spikes usually with 2–9 staminate and 4–18 pistillate flowers, 6.2–13 × 2.9–6.8 mm.
    Pistillate scales with margins ferruginous to castaneous or occasionally stramineous, 2–2.7 × 1.4–1.7 mm, apex acute.
    Staminate scales with margins ferruginous to castaneous or occasionally stramineous, 2.5–3.6 × 1.5–1.8 mm, apex acute.
    Anthers 1.1–1.4 mm.
    Perigynia ascending to spreading or occasionally recurved, green to brown and often ferruginous tinged apically, prominently to weakly 3–8-veined adaxially, 7–14-veined abaxially, ovate to narrowly ovate, 2.3–3.7 × 1.1–1.5 mm, 1.8–2.5 (–3) times as long as wide, apex abruptly contracted or gradually tapering;
    beak 0.4–1.1 (–1.3) mm, 0.15–0.33 (–0.38) times as long as perigynia, margins sparsely serrulate or entire, apex entire or bidentulate with teeth to 0.1 mm, teeth 0–0.03 times as long as perigyina.
    Stigmas 0.8–1.4 mm.