Carex interrupta Boeckeler (Q409)

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Carex interrupta is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Phacocystis
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Carex interrupta Boeckeler
Carex interrupta is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Phacocystis

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    taxon/id/Carex interrupta Boeckeler
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    Carex interrupta Boeckeler
    Carex interrupta
    Boeckeler
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex interrompu (French)
    green-fruited 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/
    sandy soils
    rivers
    wet meadows
    0–600 m
    Plants not cespitose.
    Culms obtusely angled, 20–75 cm, glabrous.
    Leaves: basal sheaths redbrown;
    sheaths of proximal leaves glabrous, fronts lacking spots and veins, entire, apex U-shaped;
    blades 3–5 mm wide.
    Proximal bract subequal to inflorescence, 2–3 mm wide.
    proximal 4–7 spikes pistillate, 4–9 cm × 3–4 mm, base attenuate;
    terminal 1 (–2) spikes staminate.
    Pistillate scales redbrown or black, shorter than or equaling perigynia, apex acute, awnless.
    Perigynia ascending, olive-green, veinless, distended by and tightly enclosing achenes, ellipsoid or obovoid, 1.5–2.1 × 0.9–1.4 mm, dull, apex rounded, glabrous;
    beak green, 0.1–0.3 mm, orifice oblique.