Carex leptopoda Mackenzie in P. A. Rydberg (Q156)

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Carex leptopoda is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Deweyanae
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Carex leptopoda Mackenzie in P. A. Rydberg
Carex leptopoda is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Deweyanae

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    taxon/id/Carex leptopoda Mackenzie
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    Carex leptopoda Mackenzie
    Carex leptopoda
    Mackenzie
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex leptopode (French)
    short-scale sedge (English)
    taper-fruited short-scale 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/
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    Argus, G.W. & D.J. White. 1978. Rare Vascular Plants of Alberta. Syllogeus 17. 46 pp.
    wet forests
    forest edges
    mesic to wet forests
    near streams
    0–2500 m
    Plants loosely to densely cespitose.
    Culms 21–67 cm × 0.7–1.4 mm, smooth or papillose.
    Leaves: ligule of distal leaf (2.5–) 3.4–6.8 (–7.4) mm, 1.5–3 times as long as wide;
    blades 2.4–5.9 mm wide, widest blade 2.8–5.9 mm wide.
    Inflorescences (17–) 34–43 (–68) mm;
    proximal internode 4.1–16 (–40) mm;
    proximal bract (11–) 16–26 (–61) mm, awn (9–) 13–23 (–59) mm;
    spikes 5–7, usually gynecandrous;
    proximal spikes with 2 staminate and 11–23 pistillate flowers, 8–15 × 3.3–5.8 mm;
    terminal spikes usually with 2–4 staminate and 16–20 pistillate flowers, 9–12.7 × 4.2–5.7 mm.
    Pistillate scales with whitish to stramineous margins, 2.6–3.3 × 1.2–1.8 mm, body (2.3–) 2.7–3.8, apex acuminate to short-awned, awn to 0.7 mm.
    Staminate scales with whitish to stramineous margins, 1.9–2.8 × 1–1.3 mm.
    Anthers 1.8–1.9 mm.
    Perigynia ascending to erect, green to pale-brown, 0–3-veined abaxially, prominently to weakly 0–2-veined adaxially, ovate to narrowly ovate, 3.3–3.9 (–4.4) × 1.1–1.5 mm, 2.3–3 times as long as wide, apex abruptly contracted to gradually tapering;
    beak 0.9–1.5 (–1.7) mm, (0.28–) 0.3–0.38 times as long as perigynia, margins serrulate, apex entire or bidentulate, teeth to 0.3 mm, 0–0.08 times as long as perigynia.
    Stigmas 1.3–1.8 mm.