Carex barbarae Dewey in W. H. Emory (Q395)

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Carex barbarae is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Phacocystis
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Carex barbarae Dewey in W. H. Emory
Carex barbarae is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Phacocystis

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    taxon/id/Carex barbarae Dewey
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    Carex barbarae Dewey
    Carex barbarae
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Santa Barbara sedge (English)
    1 reference
    Douglas, G.W., G.B. Straley, D.V. Meidinger & J. Pojar. 1998. Illustrated Flora of British Columbia. B.C. Ministry of Environment, Lands & Parks and B.C. Ministry of Forests. Victoria. Crown Publications. 8 vols.
    wet meadows
    fields
    stream banks
    0–1000 m
    Plants not cespitose.
    Culms obtusely angled, 30–110 cm, glabrous.
    Leaves: basal sheaths brown;
    sheaths of proximal leaves scabrous, fronts with redbrown spots or uniformly redbrown, prominently ladder-fibrillose, apex U-shaped, redbrown;
    blades hypostomic, 4–9 mm wide, coriaceous, papillose abaxially.
    Inflorescences: proximal bract longer than inflorescence, 3–8 mm wide.
    Spikes erect, the proximal pendent, sessile or pedunculate;
    pistillate 4–6;
    the proximal pistillate spike 3–10 cm × 5–6 mm, base attenuate.
    Pistillate scales redbrown, longer than perigynia, apex acute, scabrous, awned, awn to 2 mm.
    Perigynia divergent, dark pale-brown with redbrown spots on apical 1/2, faintly 3–5-veined on each face, somewhat inflated, loosely enclosing achenes, ellipsoid or obovoid, 3–4 × 2.2–2.5 mm, leathery, dull, apex rounded or obtuse, glabrous;
    beak redbrown, 0.5 mm, bidentate, orifice scabrous.
    Achenes not constricted, dull.