Carex festucacea Schkuhr ex Willdenow (Q329)

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Carex festucacea is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Ovales
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Carex festucacea Schkuhr ex Willdenow
Carex festucacea is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Ovales

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    taxon/id/Carex festucacea Schkuhr ex Willdenow
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    Carex festucacea Schkuhr ex Willdenow
    Carex festucacea
    Schkuhr ex Willdenow
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex fausse-fétuque (French)
    fescue sedge (English)
    fescue 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/
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    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.
    wet places
    drained fields
    open woods
    Culms 45–100 cm;
    vegetative culms few, inconspicuous, usually fewer than 15 leaves, not strikingly 3-ranked, leaves clustered at apex.
    Leaves: sheaths green or with white intervenal areas, often adaxially white-hyaline, summits U-shaped or prolonged to 2 mm beyond collar;
    sheaths finely papillose or smooth;
    distal ligules 1–3 mm;
    blades 3–5 per fertile culm, 15–30 cm × 1–3.5 mm.
    Inflorescences arching or nodding, ± open, green to light-brown, 2.5–6 cm × 4.5–11 mm;
    proximal internode 3–18 mm;
    2d internode 3–13 mm;
    proximal bracts scalelike or with bristle tips shorter than inflorescences.
    Spikes 3–10, distinct, ellipsoid to globose, 6–16 × 5–6.5 mm, base acute to attenuate, apex rounded;
    terminal spike with conspicuous staminate base.
    Pistillate scales white-hyaline with white, green, or gold center, broadly lanceolate, 2.3–3.8 mm, shorter than and narrower than perigynia, apex acute.
    Anthers 1–2.1 mm.
    Perigynia (20–) 25–60 in larger spikes, spreading, pale green to yellowish-brown, conspicuously 5-veined or more abaxially, veinless or mostly indistinctly or basally 2–4 (–6) -veined adaxially, orbiculate to elliptic, planoconvex, 2.5–4.2 × 1.5–2.3 (–2.5) mm, 0.4–0.6 mm thick, nearly leathery, margin flat, including wing 0.3–0.6 mm wide, smooth;
    beak green or light-brown at tip, flat, ciliate-serrulate, abaxial suture with conspicuous white-hyaline margin, distance from beak tip to achene 0.8–1.7 (–2) mm.
    Achenes ovate, 1.2–1.8 × 1–1.3 mm, 0.3–0.4 mm thick;