Carex hendersonii L. H. Bailey (Q275)

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Carex hendersonii is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Laxiflorae
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Carex hendersonii L. H. Bailey
Carex hendersonii is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Laxiflorae

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    taxon/id/Carex hendersonii L.H. Bailey
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    Carex hendersonii L.H. Bailey
    Carex hendersonii
    L.H. Bailey
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex de Henderson (French)
    Henderson's 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/
    mixed deciduous-evergreen forests
    Culms densely tufted, ascending, lax or decumbent, 45–87 cm × 2–2.2 mm brownish.
    sheaths green, lighter toward base, 7–55 mm;
    blades ascending, green, corrugate, 19–52 cm × 3–16 mm, blades of overwintering leaves smooth abaxially.
    Inflorescences: peduncles of lateral spikes 0–15 cm;
    of terminal spike 0.2–4 cm;
    bracts 2.5–13 × 3–10 mm, blade of distal lateral spike linear.
    Spikes (3–) 4 (–5) per culm;
    lateral spikes erect, 12–27 × 2.7–3 mm;
    terminal spike linear-clavate, 15–21 × 2–2.7 mm, usually from sheath of distal lateral spike.
    Pistillate scales 2.7–3.1 × 1.9–2.3 mm, apex aristate to acute.
    Staminate scales obovate, 5.7–6.2 × 2.7–3 mm, margins hyaline and brownish, apex acute.
    Anthers 3–3.2 mm.
    Perigynia 7–12 per spike, scattered on proximal spikes, ratio of longer lateral spike length to perigynia number 1.9–3.4, aggregated on distal spikes, (22–) 25–32-veined, linear, 4.6–6 × 1.8–2.3 mm;
    beak slightly concave at maturity, 0.5–1.8 mm.
    Achenes ellipsoid, 4.5–5 × 1.6–2 mm.