Carex cusickii Mackenzie ex Piper & Beattie (Q221)

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Carex cusickii is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Heleoglochin
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Carex cusickii Mackenzie ex Piper & Beattie
Carex cusickii is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Heleoglochin

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    taxon/id/Carex cusickii Mackenzie ex Piper & Beattie
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    Carex cusickii Mackenzie ex Piper & Beattie
    Carex cusickii
    Mackenzie ex Piper & Beattie
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Mackenzie ex Piper & Beattie
    carex de Cusick (French)
    Cusick's 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/
    marshes
    wet meadows
    swales
    sphagnum bogs
    other wet places
    shores
    floating mats
    0–2100 m
    Culms 3–130 cm.
    Leaves: sheaths adaxially red dotted and usually copper colored at mouth, concave at mouth, prolonged 1–4 (–6) mm beyond base of blade;
    ligules 4.1–13.7 mm;
    foliage leaf-blades 10–90 cm × 2.5–5 (–6) mm.
    Inflorescences bisexual or, occasionally, nearly or wholly unisexual, flexuous and interrupted, proximal 0–5 branches (or spikes) often separated, decompound, (2–) 3–8 × 1–2 cm;
    basal branch (when present) with 5–21 spikes (or ca. 40 spikes in very condensed inflorescences);
    proximal internode 4–12 mm.
    Pistillate scales straw colored or reddish-brown, 2.5–3.4 × 1.5–2.1 mm, as wide as and equaling perigynia.
    Perigynia spreading, straw colored to light or dark-brown, strongly 7–11-veined abaxially, with median lengthwise groove near base, with or without membranous flap toward apex, lanceovate (body widely ovate to oblate) in outline, plano to biconvex, 2.4–3 × 1.3–1.8 mm, shiny;
    beak 1–1.3 mm.
    Achenes broadly ellipsoid to broadly trullate-ovate or obovate in outline, 1.4–1.6 × 0.7–1.1 mm.
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