Carex feta L. H. Bailey (Q330)

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Carex feta is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Ovales
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Carex feta L. H. Bailey
Carex feta is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Ovales

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    taxon/id/Carex feta L.H. Bailey
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    Carex feta L.H. Bailey
    Carex feta
    L.H. Bailey
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex fertile (French)
    green-sheathed sedge (English)
    1 reference
    Klinkenberg, B. (ed.). 2010+. E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Plants of British Columbia. Lab. for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. http://www.eflora.bc.ca http://www.eflora.bc.ca/
    meadows
    forest edges
    stream banks
    wet soils
    Plants densely cespitose.
    Leaves: sheaths adaxially green-veined nearly to collar, ± white-hyaline triangular area to 6 mm proximal to collar, firm, summits tinged brown, usually rounded, prolonged to 1.5–6 mm beyond collar;
    distal ligules (3–) 4–8 mm;
    blades 3–4 (–5) per fertile culm, 15–25 (–45) cm × (2.5–) 3–4 (–5) mm.
    Inflorescences proximal branches often bearing several spikes, green to pale-brown, 3.5–8 cm × 10–13 mm;
    proximal internode 5–12 mm;
    2d internode 4–11 mm;
    proximal bracts bristlelike, shorter than inflorescences.
    Spikes (6–) 8–12, distant, distinct, broadly ovoid, 11–18 × 6–8 mm, base attenuate, apex rounded.
    Pistillate scales white-hyaline or pale gold, with green, gold, or brown midstripe, lanceolate to ovate, 2.7–3.5 mm, somewhat shorter and narrower than perigynia, apex obtuse or acute.
    Perigynia ascending to ascending-spreading, white or gold conspicuously (1–) 3–8-veined abaxially, conspicuously 1–7-veined adaxially, ovate to broadly ovate, flat or planoconvex, 3.2–4.2 × 1.7–2.1 mm, 0.4–0.5 mm thick, margin flat, including wing 0.3–0.5 (–0.6) mm wide, ciliate-serrulate at least distally;
    beak white or gold at tip, flat, ± ciliate-serrulate, abaxial suture inconspicuous or with conspicuous white margin, distance from beak tip to achene (1.5–) 1.8–2.4 mm.