Carex duriuscula C. A. Meyer (Q161)

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Carex duriuscula is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Divisae
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Carex duriuscula C. A. Meyer
Carex duriuscula is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Divisae

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    taxon/id/Carex duriuscula C.A. Meyer
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    Carex duriuscula C.A. Meyer
    Carex duriuscula
    C.A. Meyer
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex duret (French)
    needle-leaved sedge (English)
    narrow-leaved sedge (English)
    low sedge (English)
    involute-leaved sedge (English)
    spikerush sedge (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/
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    Cody, W.J. 2000. Flora of the Yukon Territory. 2nd ed. National Research Press, Ottawa. 669 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.
    dry prairies
    sagebrush grasslands
    openings
    dry forests
    300–3300 m
    Rhizomes 0.6–1.8 mm thick, shoots often arising 2–several per cluster, many nodes without shoots.
    Culms bluntly trigonous, (6–) 10–35 cm, smooth-angled distally.
    Leaves: basal sheaths grayish brown to dark-brown, shredding into fibers;
    sheaths with hyaline inner band, apex not prolonged beyond base of blade;
    ligules 0–0.8 mm, glabrous;
    blades 0.6–1.8 mm wide.
    Inflorescences 0.7–2 cm, 1/2+ as wide as long (if pistillate);
    spikes 3–8, androgynous, ovoid.
    Pistillate scales dark reddish-brown, with hyaline margins, broadly ovate, 2.4–4.1 mm, apex acute to acuminate, shiny.
    Anthers 1.4–3 mm, apiculus smooth to warty, very short and broad (30X).
    Perigynia dark reddish-brown, essentially veinless, ± stipitate, broadly ovate to nearly orbicular, thickly planoconvex, 2.4–3.9 × 1.5–2.1 mm, shiny;
    beak 0.3–0.9 mm, hyaline, weakly bidentulate or oblique.