Carex laxiflora Lamarck in J. Lamarck et al. (Q276)

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Carex laxiflora is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Laxiflorae
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Carex laxiflora Lamarck in J. Lamarck et al.
Carex laxiflora is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Laxiflorae

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    taxon/id/Carex laxiflora Lamarck
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    Carex laxiflora Lamarck
    Carex laxiflora
    Lamarck
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex laxiflore (French)
    loose-flowered sedge (English)
    broad loose-flowered sedge (English)
    beech wood sedge (English)
    two-edge sedge (English)
    Carex laxiflore (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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    Zinck, M. 1998. Roland's Flora of Nova Scotia. Nimber Publishing & Nova Scotia Museum. Halifax, N. S. 2 vols. 1297 pp.
    deciduous
    mixed deciduous-evergreen forests
    higher elevations
    Culms densely tufted, lateral or central, ascending or lax to decumbent, 39–47 cm × 0.8–2 mm.
    Leaves: basal sheaths light-brown;
    sheaths 6–22 mm;
    blades ascending, midrib and 2 lateral-veins developed, occasionally slightly corrugated, 19–25 cm × 5–26 mm, blades of overwintering leaves smooth or, rarely, sparsely papillose abaxially.
    Inflorescences: peduncles of proximal spikes erect, 0–3.4 cm, of lateral spikes 1.4–3.3 (–5.3) times as long as spikes they subtend;
    of terminal spikes 1–2.2 cm.
    Bracts 7.2–17.5 cm × 2–8 mm, bract blade of distal lateral spikes linear, narrower than spikes, widest bract blade of distalmost lateral spike 0.5–3.4 mm wide.
    Spikes (3–) 4 per culm;
    lateral spikes 9–33 × 3.2–4 mm;
    terminal spike linear to clavate, 23–24 (–34) × 1.5–3 mm.
    Pistillate scales 2.5–3 × 1.2–1.5 mm, apex acute or apiculate.
    Staminate scales 3–3.5 × 1–1.5 mm, oblongovate, margins white-hyaline or brownish, apex obtuse or acute.
    Anthers 2.6–3 mm.
    Perigynia 3–20 per spike, usually separate, ratio of longer lateral spike length to perigynia number 1.9–3.4, ascending, conspicuously (22–) 25–32-veined, (2.6–) 3.2–4.1 (–4.6) × 1.2–1.6 mm;
    beak straight, 0.5–1.4 mm.
    Achenes broadly ellipsoid, 1.8–2.2 (–3.4) × 1–1.4 mm. 2n = 40.