Carex subspathacea Wormskjold in G. C. Oeder et al. (Q428)

Flora Commons

accepted id

Carex subspathacea Wormskjold

Carex subspathacea

Wormskjold

FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.

taxon status

accepted

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taxon name

Carex subspathacea

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taxon authority

Wormskjold

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taxon rank

species

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taxon status

accepted

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common name

carex subspathacé (French)

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Hoppner's sedge (English)

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somewhat-sheathed sedge (English)

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Carex subspathacé (English)

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VasCan taxon numeric id

5104

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distribution

CA-SK

present

native

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Harms, V.L. 2006. Annotated catalogue of Saskatchewan vascular plants. http://www.biodiversity.sk.ca/Docs/AnnotatedCatalogueSKVascPlants2006.pdf

CA-MB

present

native

1 reference

Manitoba Checklist, 2002

CA-ON

present

native

1 reference

Newmaster, S.G. & S. Ragupathy. 2005. Flora Ontario - Integrated Botanical Information System (FOIBIS), Phase I. University of Guelph, Canada. http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis/

CA-QC

present

native

1 reference

Marie-Victorin, Fr. 1995. Flore laurentienne. 3e éd. Mise à jour et annotée par L. Brouillet, S.G. Hay, I. Goulet, M. Blondeau, J. Cayouette et J. Labrecque. Gaétan Morin éditeur. 1093 pp.

CA-YT

present

native

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Cody, W.J. 2000. Flora of the Yukon Territory. 2nd ed. National Research Press, Ottawa. 669 pp.

CA-NT

present

native

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Porsild, A.E. & W.J. Cody. 1980. Vascular Plants of the Continental Northwest Territories, Canada. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa, Ont. 667 pp.

CA-NU

present

native

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Aiken, S.G., M.J. Dallwitz, L.L. Consaul, C.L., McJannet, R.L., Boles, G.W. Argus, J.M. Gillett, P.J. Scott, R. Elven, M.C. LeBlanc, L.J. Gillespie, A.K. Brysting, H. Solstad & J.G. Harris. 2007. Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago: Descriptions, Illustrations, Identification, and Information Retrieval. [CD-ROM] NRC Research Press, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa.

Newfoundland, CA

present

native

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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

Labrador, CA

present

native

1 reference

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

present

native

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Böcher, T.W., B. Fredskild, K. Holmen & K. Jakobsen. 1978. Grønlands Flora. P. Haase & Søns Forlag, København. 326 pp.

Greenland

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CA-MB

Man.

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CA-NL

Nfld. and Labr.

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CA-NT

N.W.T.

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CA-NU

Nunavut

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CA-ON

Ont.

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CA-QC

Que.

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CA-YT

Yukon

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US-AK

Alaska

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Eurasia

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Carex sect. Phacocystis Dumortier

parent taxon

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taxon habit

herb

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GBIF taxon key

2726445

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Global Biodiversity Information Facility

IUCN Redlist Category

LC

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Global Biodiversity Information Facility

taxon habitat

shores

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salt marshes

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small pool margins

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open tundra

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saline

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elevation

0–300 m

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special status

F

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taxon description fragment

Plants not cespitose.

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d0_s0

Culms obtusely angled, 3–15 cm, glabrous.

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d0_s1

Leaves: basal sheaths brown;

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d0_s2

sheaths of proximal leaves glabrous, fronts lacking spots and veins, apex U-shaped;

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d0_s3

blades epistomic, strongly involute, 1–2 mm wide, adaxially papillose.

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d0_s4

Proximal bract longer than inflorescence, 1–3 mm wide, spathelike at base and enclosing spike.

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d0_s5

pistillate 1–3;

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d0_s8

proximal pistillate spike 0.5–1.4 cm × 2–4 mm, base cuneate.

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d0_s9

Pistillate scales bright brown to dark purple-brown, 2–3.6 × 0.9–1.5 mm, wider than perigynia, midvein reaching apex, 1/5–1/2 the width of scale, apex acute, rarely acuminate, mucronate to short-aristate.

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d0_s10

Perigynia ascending, pale-brown, sometimes with purple-brown spots on apical 1/2, veinless, somewhat inflated, loosely enclosing achenes, narrowly ellipsoid to narrowly ovoid, 2.7–3.3 (–3.6) × 1–1.8 mm, leathery, dull, base with stipe to 0.3 mm, apex acute, short-papillose;

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d0_s11

beak widely conic, 0.1–0.3 × 0.3–0.5 mm.

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