Carex eleusinoides Turczaninow ex Kunth (Q405)

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Carex eleusinoides is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Phacocystis
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Carex eleusinoides Turczaninow ex Kunth
Carex eleusinoides is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Phacocystis

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    taxon/id/Carex eleusinoides Turczaninow ex Kunth
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    Carex eleusinoides Turczaninow ex Kunth
    Carex eleusinoides
    Turczaninow ex Kunth
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex fausse-éleusine (French)
    goosegrass sedge (English)
    1 reference
    Cody, W.J. 2000. Flora of the Yukon Territory. 2nd ed. National Research Press, Ottawa. 669 pp.
    1 reference
    Porsild, A.E. & W.J. Cody. 1980. Vascular Plants of the Continental Northwest Territories, Canada. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa, Ont. 667 pp.
    Eurasia (Siberia) to Asia (Siberia)
    Eurasia (Siberia) to Asia (Russian Far East)
    wet gravel
    streams
    outwashes
    Culms obtusely angled, 15–30 cm, glabrous.
    Leaves: basal sheaths redbrown;
    sheaths of proximal leaves glabrous, fronts colorless, veinless, apex U-shaped;
    blades amphistomic, 2.5–3 mm wide, papillose on both surfaces.
    Inflorescences: proximal bract longer than inflorescence, 1.5 mm wide.
    Spikes erect, condensed;
    proximal 3–4 spikes pistillate, proximal spike 2.2–3 cm × 3 mm, base cuneate;
    terminal spike gynecandrous.
    Pistillate scales redbrown or black, equaling perigynia, apex obtuse, awnless.
    Perigynia ascending, white with redbrown spots on apical 1/2 or apical 1/2 black, veinless or indistinctly veined, stipitate, tightly enclosing achenes, thin-walled, ellipsoid, 2–2.2 × 1.2–1.5 mm, dull, base truncate, distended, apex rounded, glabrous;
    beak redbrown, 0.1 mm.
    Achenes not constricted, dull, base adnate to perigynium.