Carex blanda Dewey (Q273)

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Carex blanda is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Laxiflorae
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Carex blanda Dewey
Carex blanda is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Laxiflorae

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    taxon/id/Carex blanda Dewey
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    Carex blanda Dewey
    Carex blanda
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex lisse (French)
    woodland sedge (English)
    eastern woodland sedge (English)
    common woodland sedge (English)
    bland sedge (English)
    Carex lisse (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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    Harms, V.L. 2003. Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Saskatchewan and the provincially and nationally rare native plants in Saskatchewan. University of Saskatchewan, University Extension Press.
    open areas
    deciduous
    deciduous-evergreen forests
    wide range
    soil types
    Culms densely tufted, central or lateral, rarely erect, ascending, lax, or, occasionally, decumbent, slightly winged, 14–53 cm × 0.8–1 mm.
    Leaves: basal sheaths brown or light-brown;
    sheaths 1–48 mm;
    blades erect, ascending or lax, green, midrib well developed abaxially, lateral-veins developed adaxially, flat, 14–36 cm × 1–10 mm, blades of overwintering leaves smooth abaxially.
    Inflorescences: peduncles of proximal absent;
    of terminal spike 0–1.7 cm.
    Bracts 0.9–17 cm × 1–8 mm, bract blade of distal lateral spikes linear, narrower than spikes, not concealing them (viewed from abaxial surface), widest bract blade of distalmost lateral spike 0.5–3.4 mm wide.
    Spikes 4 (–5) per culm;
    lateral spikes scattered or distal 2 proximate, 15–18 × 3–4 mm;
    terminal spike overtopping or proximate to proximal pistillate spikes, linear, 9–20 × 1.8–2.4 mm.
    Pistillate scales 2.8–3 × 1.4–1.6 mm, apex apiculate to aristate, awn to 1.5 mm.
    Staminate scales 1.8–3.2 × 1.4–1.8 mm, margins hyaline, apex acute or acuminate.
    Anthers 1.8–2.2 mm.
    Perigynia 4–18 per spike, closely overlapping, ratio of longer lateral spike length to perigynia number 0.8–1.7, aggregated, ascending, conspicuously (22–) 25–32-veined, obovate to elliptic-obovate, 2.5–3.8 (–4.1) × 1.3–2.2 mm, 1.5–1.9 times as long as achene bodies;
    beak abruptly bent, 0.2–0.6 mm.
    Achenes obovoid, 2.1–3.2 × 0.8–1.8 mm. 2n = 30, 32, 34, 36.