Carex gracillima Schweinitz (Q238)

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Carex gracillima is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Hymenochlaenae
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Carex gracillima Schweinitz
Carex gracillima is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Hymenochlaenae

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    taxon/id/Carex gracillima Schweinitz
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    Carex gracillima Schweinitz
    Carex gracillima
    Schweinitz
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex filiforme (French)
    graceful sedge (English)
    purple-sheathed graceful sedge (English)
    Graceful sedge (English)
    carex filiforme (English)
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    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/
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    Marie-Victorin, Fr. 1995. Flore laurentienne. 3e éd. Mise à jour et annotée par L. Brouillet, S.G. Hay, I. Goulet, M. Blondeau, J. Cayouette et J. Labrecque. Gaétan Morin éditeur. 1093 pp.
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    Hinds, H.R. 2000. Flora of New Brunswick : a manual for the identification of the vascular plants of New Brunswick. 2nd edition. Biology Department, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. 699 pp.
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    Zinck, M. 1998. Roland's Flora of Nova Scotia. Nimber Publishing & Nova Scotia Museum. Halifax, N. S. 2 vols. 1297 pp.
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    Etcheberry, R. 1989. Plantes de Saint-Pierre et Miquelon. Unpublished list (MT).
    Newfoundland, CA
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    Meades, S., S.G. Hay & L. Brouillet. 2000. Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Newfoundland and Labrador. Published in association with A Digital Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador Vascular Plants. http://www.digitalnaturalhistory.com/meades.htm (consulted 2009-09-02) http://www.digitalnaturalhistory.com/meades.htm
    mesic to dry deciduous forests
    openings
    mixed conifer-hardwood forests
    coniferous swamps
    thickets
    meadows
    roadsides
    Plants densely cespitose.
    Culms dark maroon at base;
    flowering-stems 0.5–1.1 mm thick, 20–90 cm, much longer than leaves at maturity, glabrous, but often scabrous within inflorescence.
    Leaves: sheaths glabrous or short-pubescent, basal few bladeless and maroon, others grading from maroon to green on back, pale brown-hyaline, red dotted and sometimes pubescent near apex;
    blades flat, 3–9 mm wide, glabrous, minutely scabrous on margins distally.
    Inflorescences: peduncles of lateral spikes slender, to 40 mm, equaling spikes or usually somewhat shorter, scabrous;
    peduncle of terminal spike to 13 mm, glabrous or scabrous;
    proximal bracts shorter than inflorescences;
    sheaths 20–25 mm;
    blades 3–4 mm wide.
    Lateral spikes 2–5, 1 per node, well separated, drooping at maturity, pistillate with 10–45 perigynia attached 2 mm apart, linear, 10–70 × 2–3.5 mm.
    Terminal spike gynecandrous, 10–60 × 1–3 mm.
    Pistillate scales white-hyaline tinged with chestnut, broad green midrib often red dotted, sometimes scabrous, ovate to oblong, shorter than mature perigynia, apex rounded or cuspidate with ciliate awn less than 1 mm, otherwise glabrous.
    Perigynia green, usually red dotted, 2-ribbed and finely 8–12-veined, veins more obvious near base, ellipsoid to oblong-ovoid, loosely enveloping achenes, 2–3.7 × 1.3–1.6 mm, membranous, acute at base, tapering gradually to acute beakless apex, glabrous.
    Achenes substipitate, 1.2–2.6 × 1–1.2 mm. 2n = 50, 52, 54.