Carex microptera Mackenzie (Q340)

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Carex microptera is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Ovales
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Carex microptera Mackenzie
Carex microptera is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Ovales

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    Carex microptera Mackenzie
    Carex microptera
    Mackenzie
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex à petites ailes (French)
    laîche agréable (French)
    small-winged sedge (English)
    oval-headed sedge (English)
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    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/
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    Packer, J.G. & A.J. Gould. 2017.Vascular Plants of Alberta. Part 1: Ferns, Fern Allies, Gymnospermes, and Monocots. University of Calgary Press, Calgary.
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    Harms, V.L. 2006. Annotated catalogue of Saskatchewan vascular plants. http://www.biodiversity.sk.ca/Docs/AnnotatedCatalogueSKVascPlants2006.pdf
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    Cody, W.J. 2000. Flora of the Yukon Territory. 2nd ed. National Research Press, Ottawa. 669 pp.
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    Cody W., K.L. Reading & J.M. Line. 2003. Additions and range extensions to the vascular flora of the continental Northwest Territories, Canada. Canadian Field-Naturalist 117 (3): 448-465.
    Mexico
    moderately wet to dry meadows
    slopes
    watercourses
    disturbed habitats
    Plants densely cespitose.
    Culms 20–110 cm.
    Leaves: sheath adaxially white-hyaline, summits usually U-shaped, occasionally prolonged to 3 mm beyond collar;
    distal ligules (1–) 2–3 (–6) mm;
    blades (2–) 3–7 per fertile culm, 10–50 cm × 2–5 mm.
    Inflorescences usually dense, light to dark-brown and green, (0.8–) 1.1–2.6 cm × 9.5–17.5 mm;
    proximal internode 0.5–3 (–4) mm;
    2d internode 0.5–2 (–3) mm;
    proximal bracts scalelike or rarely leaflike, occasionally bristlelike, shorter than inflorescences.
    Spikes 4–10 (–14), densely aggregated, individually indistinct, usually broadly ovoid, 5–9 (–11) × 4.3–7 mm, base and apex rounded or sometimes acute.
    Pistillate scales brown, often red, purple, or coppery tinged, with pale or green midstripe, ovate, 2.4–3.5 mm, shorter than and narrower or as wide as perigynia, white margin 0–0.1 mm wide, apex acute.
    Perigynia ascending to spreading, green or straw colored to brown when mature, conspicuously (0–) 3–8 (–11) -veined abaxially, conspicuously 0–8-veined adaxially, veins usually not reaching top of achene, ovate to broadly ovate, flat except over achene or ± planoconvex because of air within, (2.8–) 3.4–4.5 (–5.2) × 1.1–2.4 mm, 0.3–0.5 mm thick, margin flat, including wing 0.2–0.5 mm wide, ciliate-serrulate at least on distal body, without metallic sheen, dull to slightly shiny;
    beak tip gold or redbrown to dark-brown, cylindric, unwinged, at least 1 mm, ± entire for 0.2–0.6 (–0.9) mm, abaxial suture inconspicuous or with white margin, distance from beak tip to achene 1.5–2.5 (–2.8) mm.