Carex nigricans C. A. Meyer (Q167)

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Carex nigricans is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Dornera
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Carex nigricans C. A. Meyer
Carex nigricans is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Dornera

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    taxon/id/Carex nigricans C.A. Meyer
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    Carex nigricans C.A. Meyer
    Carex nigricans
    C.A. Meyer
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex noircissant (French)
    black alpine 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/
    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.
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    Cody, W.J., B.A. Bennett & P. Caswell. 2005. New records of vascular plants for the Yukon Territory VII. Canadian Field-Naturalist 119 (3): 417-436. http://www.ofnc.ca/cfn/119-3/Cody.pdf
    moist meadows
    mossy heaths
    wet gravels
    streams
    snowbeds
    90–3400 m
    Plants loosely cespitose, mat-forming;
    rhizomes short, stout.
    Culms 5–30 cm.
    Leaves flat to the tip, (1.5–) 2–4 mm wide.
    Pistillate scales reddish-brown to black, lanceolate, as broad and as long as or slightly longer than perigynia, margins not hyaline or scarious, apex acute to acuminate.
    Perigynia ascending to spreading and deflexed at maturity, 3.8–4.1 (–5) × 1–1.2 mm;
    beak dark-brown to black, frequently as long as body of perigynium.
    Stigmas 3.2n = 72.