Carex illota L. H. Bailey (Q209)

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Carex illota is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Glareosae
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Carex illota L. H. Bailey
Carex illota is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Glareosae

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    taxon/id/Carex illota L.H. Bailey
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    Carex illota L.H. Bailey
    Carex illota
    L.H. Bailey
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex sali (French)
    sheep sedge (English)
    small-headed 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/
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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.
    2100–3700 m
    Plants densely cespitose.
    distal ligules 1–3 (–3.5) mm;
    blades 2–4 per fertile culm, 4.5–18 cm × 1.5–2.5 mm.
    Inflorescences nodding, dense, dark or medium brown, 1–1.2 cm × 5.5–10 mm;
    proximal internode 1.3–3 mm;
    2d internode 0.6–1.5 mm;
    proximal bracts scalelike to bristlelike.
    Spikes 3–6, usually individually indistinct, ovoid to broadly ovoid, 4.5–6.5 × 2.5–5.5 mm, base and apex acute to rounded;
    terminal spike without conspicuous staminate base.
    Pistillate scales dark-brown, usually with pale or green midstripe, ovate, 1.5–2.5 (–3.5) mm, usually shorter, narrower than perigynia, margin occasionally hyaline gold, to 0.4 mm wide, apex obtuse or acute.
    Perigynia ascending-spreading to spreading, gold to dark-brown, conspicuously 0–7-veined abaxially, conspicuously 0–4-veined adaxially, ovate, planoconvex, 2.6–3.2 × 0.9–1.3 mm, 0.5–0.65 mm thick, margin unwinged, pithlike tissue usually present in proximal perigynia walls;
    beak medium or dark-brown at tip, often with white-hyaline, cylindric to somewhat flat, abaxial suture with conspicuous white margin, distance from beak tip to achene 1.2–1.6 mm, entire.