Carex glaucodea Tuckerman ex Olney (Q216)

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Carex glaucodea is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Griseae
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Carex glaucodea Tuckerman ex Olney
Carex glaucodea is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Griseae

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    taxon/id/Carex glaucodea Tuckerman ex Olney
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    Carex glaucodea Tuckerman ex Olney
    Carex glaucodea
    Tuckerman ex Olney
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex bleuâtre (French)
    blue sedge (English)
    glaucescent sedge (English)
    flaccid sedge (English)
    1 reference
    Newmaster, S.G. & S. Ragupathy. 2005. Flora Ontario - Integrated Botanical Information System (FOIBIS), Phase I. University of Guelph, Canada. http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis/
    mesic to wet-mesic deciduous forests
    moist prairies
    Plants densely cespitose;
    rhizome internodes 1.2–2.8 mm thick.
    Culms yellowbrown at base, 10–50 cm.
    Leaves: sheaths glabrous;
    blades glaucous, widest blades (5.1–) 5.7–10.8 mm wide, smooth abaxially or sparsely antrorsely scaberulous on main veins.
    Inflorescences 0.56–1 of culm height;
    peduncles of lateral smooth;
    peduncles of terminal spikes (0.5–) 1.6–15 (–31) mm, barely to much exceeding lateral spikes;
    proximal bract sheath loose, abaxially glabrous, sheath front apex truncate;
    ligules 5.2–10 mm;
    distal bract slightly shorter than to much exceeding terminal spike.
    Spikes 3–6, distal 2–4 overlapping;
    lateral spikes pistillate, longest ones with (14–) 19–45 (–65) perigynia, 9–32 (–41) × 4.1–6.5 (–7.3) mm, ratio of spike length (in mm) to flower number = (0.56–) 0.67–1.1 (–1.3);
    terminal spikes 7–35 × (1.3–) 1.5–3 (–3.6) mm.
    Pistillate scales (1.6–) 2–3.2 (–3.7) × 1.5–2.2 (–2.5) mm, margins whitish, entire, apex awnless or with awn to 1 (–1.5) mm.
    Staminate scales 4.3–5.2 × 1–1.8 mm.
    Anthers 1.8–3.6 mm.
    Perigynia spirally imbricate, 43–54-veined, unwrinkled, oblong-ovoid, obtusely triangular in cross-section, 3.2–4 (–4.1) × 1.5–2.5 mm, (1.5–) 1.8–2.3 (–2.5) times as long as wide, dull, base very gradually tapered, apex gradually tapered;
    beak absent or straight, 0–0.3 mm.
    Achenes obovoid, 2.4–3 × 1.3–1.6 (–1.7) mm, 0.5–0.63 times as long as perigynia, loosely enveloped by perigynia;
    stipe straight 0.05–0.3 (–0.4) mm;
    beak bent (0–) 30–90°, 0.2–0.4 mm.