Carex cristatella Britton in N. L. Britton and A. Brown (Q324)

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

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    taxon/id/Carex cristatella Britton
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    Carex cristatella Britton
    Carex cristatella
    Britton
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex accrêté (French)
    crested sedge (English)
    crested oval sedge (English)
    Carex accrêté (English)
    1 reference
    Harms, V.L. 2006. Annotated catalogue of Saskatchewan vascular plants. http://www.biodiversity.sk.ca/Docs/AnnotatedCatalogueSKVascPlants2006.pdf
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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/
    1 reference
    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.
    Europe ()
    moist to wet meadows
    marshes
    thickets
    stream banks
    ditches
    Plants densely cespitose.
    Culms 30–100 cm;
    vegetative culms with numerous leaves spaced evenly along distal 1/2.
    Leaves: sheaths adaxially green-veined nearly to collar, with V-shaped hyaline band extending 4–20 mm proximal to collar;
    somewhat loose, expanded near summit, ± wing-angled, adaxially firm, summits truncate to U-shaped, prolonged beyond collar;
    distal ligules 4–10 mm;
    blades 4–6 per fertile culm, 13–40 cm × 3–7.5 mm.
    Inflorescences dense or proximally open, brown, 2–4 (–4.5) cm × 8–15 mm;
    proximal internode 2–6 mm;
    2d internode 2–4 mm;
    proximal bracts scalelike with bristle tip to 1 (–8) cm.
    Spikes 6–15, usually widely spaced, globose, 4–8 × 4–8 mm, base rounded to tapered, apex rounded.
    Pistillate scales white-hyaline or pale-brown with green to brown midstripe not reaching tip, lanceolate, 1.6–2.3 mm, 1/2 length of and narrower than perigynia, hidden by perignyium beaks, apex acute or ultimate apex often rounded to retuse.
    Perigynia spreading to ascending, with beak and distal body of perigynium spreading or recurrent at 80º angle or greater, pale green to pale-brown, conspicuously 3–6-veined abaxially, conspicuously 2–6-veined adaxially, ovate to elliptic, planoconvex, 2–3.5 times as long as wide, 2.7–4 × 1–1.7 mm, 0.3–0.4 mm thick, margin flat, including wing 0.1–0.2 mm wide, abruptly narrowed proximally, not extending to base;
    beak tip usually not colored, flat, ciliate-serrulate, distance from beak tip to achene 1.5–1.8 mm.