Carex simulata Mackenzie (Q164)

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Carex simulata is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Divisae
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Carex simulata Mackenzie
Carex simulata is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Divisae

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    taxon/id/Carex simulata Mackenzie
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    Carex simulata Mackenzie
    Carex simulata
    Mackenzie
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex simulateur (French)
    mimic sedge (English)
    copycat sedge (English)
    analogue sedge (English)
    short-beaked sedge (English)
    short-beaked fen 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.
    1 reference
    Harms, V.L. 2006. Annotated catalogue of Saskatchewan vascular plants. http://www.biodiversity.sk.ca/Docs/AnnotatedCatalogueSKVascPlants2006.pdf
    wet meadows
    marshes
    stream banks
    lakeshores
    ditches
    tolerant
    alkaline soils
    600–3100 m
    Rhizomes coarse, 1.5–2.8 mm thick, typically with long, unbranched segments from which shoots arise singly every few nodes.
    Culms sharply trigonous, (10–) 20–80 cm, scabrous-angled distally.
    Leaves: basal sheaths dark-brown;
    sheaths with hyaline inner band, apex prolonged 0.3–1.6 mm beyond base of blade, glabrous;
    ligules 0.6–2.7 mm;
    blades 1–3.7 mm wide.
    Inflorescences dense to elongate, 1–3 cm;
    spikes 4–12 (–18), usually unisexual;
    staminate spikes lanceoloid;
    pistillate spikes ovoid.
    Pistillate scales reddish-brown to dark-brown, with narrow hyaline margins, ovate, apex acute to acuminate-awned, shiny.
    Anthers 1.8–3.1 mm, apiculus smooth to warty (30X).
    Perigynia dark reddish-brown, essentially veinless, stipitate, broadly ovate to rhombic-orbicular, thickly planoconvex, 1.8–2.8 × 1.1–1.7 mm, shiny;
    beak 0.25–0.5 mm, hyaline, oblique or obscurely bidentulate.