Carex tahoensis Smiley (Q357)

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Carex tahoensis is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Ovales
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Carex tahoensis Smiley
Carex tahoensis is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Ovales

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    taxon/id/Carex tahoensis Smiley
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    Carex tahoensis Smiley
    Carex tahoensis
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex du lac Tahoe (French)
    Lake Tahoe sedge (English)
    Tahoe 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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    Bennett, B., P.M. Catling, W.J. Cody & G.W. Argus. 2010. New records of vascular plants in the Yukon Territory VIII. Canadian Field Naturalist 124 (1): 1-27. http://canadianfieldnaturalist.ca/index.php/cfn/article/view/1025
    grasslands
    sagebrush slopes
    open rocky
    sandy slopes
    subalpine
    alpine meadows
    Plants densely cespitose.
    Leaves: sheaths adaxially white-hyaline, summits usually U-shaped;
    distal ligules 0.8–1.5 mm;
    blades 3–5 per fertile culm, occasionally folded, if not folded, margins revolute, 5–10 cm × 1.5–2.5 (–3) mm, thick, tough.
    Inflorescences dense to ± open, whitish, gold, or brown, (1.5–) 2–3 (–3.7) cm × 6–12 mm;
    proximal internode 4–11 mm;
    2d internode 2.5–7 mm;
    proximal bracts scalelike or bristlelike, shorter than inflorescences.
    Spikes 4–6, distant, distinct, lanceloid to ovoid, 10–15 × 4–6 mm, base tapered to attenuate, apex rounded to acute.
    Pistillate scales redbrown, with straw colored to tan midstripe, usually ovate, to 4–5 mm, equaling, covering at least perigynium bodies, margin white, 0.2–0.6 mm wide, apex obtuse to short-awned.
    Perigynia appressed or appressed-ascending, green, gold, or coppery, conspicuously 7–14-veined abaxially, conspicuously 3–8-veined adaxially, lanceolate or ovate to oblanceolate or obovate, planoconvex, (3.7–) 4.5–6 × 1.5–2.6 mm, 0.5–0.7 (–0.9) mm thick, margin flat, including wing 0.2–0.4 (–0.5) mm wide;
    beak brown to gold or reddish, often white-hyaline at tip, ± cylindric, ± ciliate-serrulate for distal 0.2–0.7 mm, abaxial suture with white margin, or sometimes inconspicuous, distance from beak tip to achene (0.6–) 1–2 mm.
    Achenes lanceolate to ovate or obovate, 1.9–2.4 × 1.2–1.6 mm, 0.5–0.7 mm thick.