Carex unilateralis Mackenzie (Q362)

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

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    taxon/id/Carex unilateralis Mackenzie
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    Carex unilateralis Mackenzie
    Carex unilateralis
    Mackenzie
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex unilatéral (French)
    one-sided sedge (English)
    lateral 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/
    1 reference
    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.
    Plants densely cespitose.
    distal ligules 2.5–8 mm;
    blades 3–5 per fertile culm;
    15–45 cm × 2–3 (–4) mm.
    Inflorescences ascending, dense, green to gold or brown, (1–) 1.4–2.5 cm × 9–17 mm;
    proximal internode 1.5–4 mm;
    2d internode 1–4 mm;
    proximal 2–3 bracts erect to ascending, leaflike, the proximal longer than inflorescence, often more than 2 mm wide, base ± surrounding culm.
    Spikes 5–11, ± individually indistinct, ovoid to broadly ovoid, 7–13 × 5–9 mm, base rounded to acute, apex truncate to acute.
    Pistillate scales pale gold to redbrown, with pale to green midstripe, lanceolate to ovate, 3.3–4.8 mm, shorter and narrower than perigynia, margin sometimes white, 0.1–0.2 mm wide, apex acuminate to awned.
    Perigynia ascending to ascending-spreading, green, gold, or sometimes coppery, conspicuously 0–11-veined abaxially, conspicuously 0–8-veined adaxially, ovate to lanceolate, usually flat, 3.5–5 × 1.3–1.75 mm, 0.3–0.5 mm thick, margin flat, including wing 0.2–0.3 mm wide;
    beak usually gold or redbrown at tip, usually flat, winged, ± ciliate-serrulate or, sometimes, cylindric, unwinged, ± entire for 0.5–0.6 mm, (1.4–) 1.7–2.5 mm, abaxial suture inconspicuous or with white margin, distance from beak tip to achene.
    Achenes stipitate, ovate to obovate, (1.2–) 1.5–1.9 × 0.75–1 (–1.2) mm, 0.3–0.4 mm thick.