Carex tenera Dewey (Q358)

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Carex tenera is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Ovales
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Carex tenera Dewey
Carex tenera is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Ovales

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    Carex tenera Dewey
    Carex tenera
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    tender sedge (English)
    quill sedge (English)
    straw sedge (English)
    slender sedge (English)
    marsh straw sedge (English)
    narrow-leaved oval sedge (English)
    broad-fruited sedge (English)
    carex tendre (French)
    carex faible (French)
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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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    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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    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.
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    Hinds, H.R. 2000. Flora of New Brunswick : a manual for the identification of the vascular plants of New Brunswick. 2nd edition. Biology Department, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. 699 pp.
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    Zinck, M. 1998. Roland's Flora of Nova Scotia. Nimber Publishing & Nova Scotia Museum. Halifax, N. S. 2 vols. 1297 pp.
    Plants densely cespitose.
    Culms often nodding, 20–90 cm, vegetative culms inconspicuous with few leaves clustered at apex.
    Leaves: sheaths abaxially hyaline, adaxially whitish mottled, summits U-shaped, shortly prolonged less than 2.8 mm beyond collar, smooth or sometimes papillose (at 30X);
    distal ligules 1–2 mm;
    blades 3–5 per fertile culm, 15–35 cm × 1.3–2.5 (–3) mm.
    Inflorescences often flexible and nodding, open, with elongate spikes, brown, (2–) 2.5–5 cm × 7–10 mm;
    proximal internode (4–) 7–17 (–20) mm;
    2d internode (3–) 6–10 mm;
    proximal bracts scalelike or to 1 (–4) cm;
    rachis usually thin and wiry.
    Spikes 3–8, distant or loosely aggregated, ovoid to globose, 4–10 × 3.5–6 mm, base tapered or clavate, apex rounded.
    Pistillate scales white-hyaline or pale-brown with green to brown midstripe not reaching scale tip, proximal scales ovate, 2.3–3.3 mm, shorter by 0–1.6 mm and narrower than perigynia, apex obtuse on proximal scales, acute on distal.
    Perigynia erect to ascending, brown, conspicuously 5–7-veined abaxially, veinless or faintly 3–7-veined adaxially, ovate to broadly ovate, planoconvex, 2.8–4 (–4.5) × 1.4–1.9 (–2) mm, 0.4–0.5 mm thick, 2–2.3 times as long as wide, margin flat, including wing 0.1–0.5 mm wide, ciliate-serrulate at least distally;
    straw colored to reddish-brown at tip, flat, ± ciliate-serrulate, abaxial suture inconspicuous, distance from beak tip to achene 1.3–2.7 mm.