Carex geyeri Boott (Q172)

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Carex geyeri is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Firmiculmes
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Carex geyeri Boott
Carex geyeri is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Firmiculmes

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    taxon/id/Carex geyeri Boott
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    Carex geyeri Boott
    Carex geyeri
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex de Geyer (French)
    Geyer's sedge (English)
    elk sedge (English)
    Elk 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.
    montane
    subalpine grasslands
    pine woods
    800–3300 m
    Plants not cespitose, long-rhizomatous.
    Culms 13–49 cm, triangular, scabrous distally.
    Leaves: basal sheaths reddish-brown to dark-brown;
    blades plane, 1.1–3.5 mm wide, equaling or exceeding culms.
    Spike with staminate portion separated from pistillate portion by short but conspicuous internode, with pistillate portion unbranched, 7.5–26.5 × 1.3–2.2 mm.
    Pistillate scales brown, chartaceous, apex cuspidate to short-awned.
    Staminate scales reddish-brown, apex cuspidate to short-awned.
    Anthers 2.2–6.2 mm.
    Perigynia 1–3, greenish yellow to brown, with 2 marginal veins, otherwise veinless, 5–6.8 (–8.4) × 1.8–2.8 mm.