Carex caryophyllea Latourrette (Q302)

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Carex caryophyllea is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Mitratae
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Carex caryophyllea Latourrette
Carex caryophyllea is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Mitratae

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    taxon/id/Carex caryophyllea Latourrette
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    Carex caryophyllea Latourrette
    Carex caryophyllea
    Latourrette
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex printanier (French)
    spring sedge (English)
    dry pastures
    graveyards
    Culms trigonous, angles obtuse, 4–35 cm, scabrous distally.
    sheath fronts with apex concave to V-shaped, glabrous;
    blades 7–25 cm × 1.5–3 mm, shorter than culm.
    Inflorescences 2–4 cm;
    proximal bracts to 5 × 1 mm;
    lateral spikes 0.5–1.5 cm × 4–5 mm;
    terminal spikes 1–2 cm × 4 mm.
    Scales brown with yellowbrown midrib, 3-veined, equaling perigynia, apex acuminate to retuse, with scabrous awn to 2 mm.
    Anthers 2–3 mm.
    Perigynia yellowbrown, often redbrown at apex, sides convex, 2.5–2.8 × 1.5 mm, hairs purple-brown (hair-base bulbous);
    beak redbrown, conic, thickened.
    Achenes brown, sessile, mitrate, obovoid, 2–2.2 mm. 2n = 58, 62, 64, 66, 68 (Europe, Japan).