Carex panicea Linnaeus (Q381)

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Carex panicea is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Paniceae
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Carex panicea Linnaeus
Carex panicea is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Paniceae

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    taxon/id/Carex panicea Linnaeus
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    Carex panicea Linnaeus
    Carex panicea
    Linnaeus
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex faux-millet (French)
    laîche faux-panic (French)
    laîche bleuâtre (French)
    millet sedge (English)
    grass-like sedge (English)
    carnation sedge (English)
    pink-leaved sedge (English)
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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.
    1 reference
    Etcheberry, R. 1989. Plantes de Saint-Pierre et Miquelon. Unpublished list (MT).
    Greenland
    St. Pierre and Miquelon
    Eurasia
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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.
    Newfoundland, CA
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    Meades, S., S.G. Hay & L. Brouillet. 2000. Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Newfoundland and Labrador. Published in association with A Digital Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador Vascular Plants. http://www.digitalnaturalhistory.com/meades.htm (consulted 2009-09-02) http://www.digitalnaturalhistory.com/meades.htm
    Greenland, GL
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    Böcher, T.W., B. Fredskild, K. Holmen & K. Jakobsen. 1978. Grønlands Flora. P. Haase & Søns Forlag, København. 326 pp.
    wet to dry
    wet to sandy
    wet to acidic fields
    Plants colonial, long-rhizomatous.
    Culms (0.8–) 14–75 cm, smooth distally.
    Leaves: proximal sheaths with blades, pale-brown, 3–6 mm thick;
    ligules 0.4–3.5 (–8.5) mm, usually wider than long;
    leaf-blades somewhat glaucous, flat, 5.5–33 cm × 1.4–4.7 mm, folded at bases, margins revolute, herbaceous.
    Inflorescences 3.2–21 cm, 1.7–3.5 (–4.3) times as long as proximal bract;
    proximal bract (1.3–) 2–9 cm, sheath 0.5–2.4 cm, blade 1.1–7.1 cm;
    pistillate spikes densely flowered, ovoid to cylindric, 0.8–2.9 cm × 4.5–7.5 mm;
    lateral spikes erect or ascending on stiff peduncles.
    Pistillate scales dark reddish purple with hyaline margins, green centers, apex obtuse, centers papillose.
    Perigynia ascending to spreading, yellowish green to brown, often suffused with reddish purple, broadly obovoid, 2.6–5.1 × 1.4–2.4 mm;
    beak minute, sharply bent.
    Achenes pale-brown, 1.8–2.9 × 1.3–1.9 mm. 2n = 32.