Carex douglasii Boott in W. J. Hooker (Q160)

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Carex douglasii is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Divisae
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Carex douglasii Boott in W. J. Hooker
Carex douglasii is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Divisae

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    taxon/id/Carex douglasii Boott
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    Carex douglasii Boott
    Carex douglasii
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex de Douglas (French)
    Douglas' 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/
    1 reference
    Packer, J.G. & A.J. Gould. 2017.Vascular Plants of Alberta. Part 1: Ferns, Fern Allies, Gymnospermes, and Monocots. University of Calgary Press, Calgary.
    1 reference
    Harms, V.L. 2006. Annotated catalogue of Saskatchewan vascular plants. http://www.biodiversity.sk.ca/Docs/AnnotatedCatalogueSKVascPlants2006.pdf
    Mexico (Baja California)
    sagebrush grasslands
    forest openings
    meadows
    marsh edges
    stream banks
    wet soils
    various open
    successional
    moist habitats
    dry to wet soils
    various open
    successional
    moist habitats
    tolerant
    alkaline soils
    500–3500 m
    Rhizomes 0.8–1.9 mm thick, shoots often arising 2–several per cluster, many nodes without shoots.
    Culms bluntly trigonous, (8–) 15–40 cm, smooth-angled distally.
    Leaves: basal sheaths pale to dark-brown;
    sheaths with hyaline inner band, apex not prolonged, glabrous;
    ligules 0–2.8 mm;
    blades 1–3 (–3.5) mm wide.
    Inflorescences dense, headlike, 1.2–3.5 (–4.5) cm, 1/2+ as wide as long (if pistillate);
    spikes 6–20 (–25), usually unisexual;
    staminate spikes lanceoloid;
    pistillate spikes ovoid.
    Pistillate scales pale-brown to ± whitish hyaline, hyaline margins, lanceolate to ovate, (4.3–) 4.7–7.5 mm, apex acute to acuminate, satiny to ± dull.
    Anthers (2.5–) 2.8–3.9 mm, apiculus bristly (30X).
    Perigynia brown, essentially veinless, usually stipitate, ovate to broadly elliptic, ± planoconvex, (3–) 3.5–4.2 (–4.8) × 1.2–2.1 mm, dull;
    beak (0.9–) 1.2–1.9 mm, apex hyaline, friable, oblique or obscurely bidentulate.