Carex bicknellii Britton in N. L. Britton and A. Brown (Q320)

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Carex bicknellii is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Ovales
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Carex bicknellii Britton in N. L. Britton and A. Brown
Carex bicknellii is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Ovales

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    taxon/id/Carex bicknellii Britton
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    Carex bicknellii Britton
    Carex bicknellii
    Britton
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex de Bicknell (French)
    Bicknell's sedge (English)
    copper-shoulder oval sedge (English)
    1 reference
    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/
    1 reference
    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.
    dry to mesic prairies
    open woodlands
    sand barrens
    Plants cespitose with fewer than 25 culms per clump;
    rhizomes appearing elongate only in old clumps.
    Culms (35–) 40–110 cm;
    vegetative culms few, inconspicuous, with 6–8 leaves, not strikingly 3-ranked.
    Leaves: sheaths adaxially white-hyaline, summits concave or truncate, prolonged beyond collar to 2.5 mm, papillose at least near apex;
    distal ligules 1–5 mm;
    blades 3–4 per fertile culm, 2.5–25 cm × 2–5 mm, usually adaxially papillose.
    Inflorescences open, pale-brown, 0.24–0.62 cm × 8–15 mm;
    proximal internode 5–17 mm;
    2d internode 3–10 mm;
    proximal bracts scalelike, with bristle tips shorter than inflorescences.
    Spikes 3–6 (–8), distant, distinct, ovoid to clavate, 7–21 × 5.5–12 mm, base rounded to long tapered, apex rounded.
    Pistillate scales reddish-brown with green midstripe, lanceovate to ovate, 3.1–5.4 mm, 1.9–3.2 times as long as wide, (1–) 1.4–2.3 mm shorter than perigynia, narrower than perignyia, apex obtuse to acute.
    Anthers (2.4–) 2.8–4.2 mm.
    Staminate scales obtuse.
    Perigynia 15–80 in larger spikes, ascending or ascending-spreading, green to pale whitish green with reddish-brown margin, conspicuously 8–12-veined abaxially, 4–8-veined adaxially, broadly elliptic to nearly orbiculate, (4.5–) 5.1–6.7 (–7.1) × (2.4–) 2.8–4.2 mm, 0.5–0.7 mm thick, membranaceous with brown achene visible through hyaline adaxial face, margin flat, including wing 0.8–1.2 mm wide, often erose, scalloped, or with an irregular tooth, smooth;
    beak pale-brown at tip, flat, ciliate-serrulate, abaxial suture inconspicuous, distance from beak tip to achene 2.4–3.7 mm.