Carex glareosa Wahlenberg (Q190)

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Carex glareosa is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Glareosae
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Carex glareosa Wahlenberg
Carex glareosa is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Glareosae

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    taxon/id/Carex glareosa Wahlenberg
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    Carex glareosa Wahlenberg
    Carex glareosa
    Wahlenberg
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    gravel sedge (English)
    lesser saltmarsh sedge (English)
    clustered sedge (English)
    weak-clustered sedge (English)
    carex des graviers (French)
    Plants densely cespitose, in small clumps;
    Culms often arching, weak, 10–40 (–60) cm.
    Leaves: sheaths pale to mid brown abaxially, inner band thin and hyaline, concave at summit;
    ligules as wide as long, 2–8 mm;
    blades usually gray-green, flat to channeled, 5–15 cm × 1–2 mm, usually shorter than culms.
    Inflorescences erect, 1–2 cm × 5–12 mm;
    proximal bracts usually scalelike, shorter than spikes.
    Spikes 2–4, closely approximate, individually distinct, proximal lateral spikes pistillate, containing 5–10 (–15) perigynia, oblong-linear;
    terminal spike gynecandrous, containing 10 (–20) perigynia, clavate.
    Pistillate scales pale to redbrown with yellowbrown center and white-hyaline margins, oblongovate, subequal to perigynia, apex obtuse.
    Perigynia ascending, light to pale-brown, often graybrown at maturity, lightly or obscurely several-veined, from broadly elliptic-obovate to lanceolate, 1.5–3.5 × 1.–1.5 mm, widest near middle, subcoriaceous;
    beak short, entire.