Carex torta Boott in E. Tuckerman (Q429)

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Carex torta is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Phacocystis
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Carex torta Boott in E. Tuckerman
Carex torta is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Phacocystis

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    taxon/id/Carex torta Boott
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    Carex torta Boott
    Carex torta
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex tordu (French)
    twisted sedge (English)
    beaked riverbank sedge (English)
    Carex tordu (English)
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    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.
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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.
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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.
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    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/
    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
    rocky streambeds
    0–1500 m N.B., N.S., Ont., Que.
    Culms angled, 25–75 cm, glabrous.
    Leaves: basal sheaths redbrown;
    sheaths of proximal leaves glabrous, fronts lacking spots and veins, entire, apex truncate;
    blades 3–5 mm wide.
    Inflorescences: proximal bract subequal to inflorescence, 1–3 mm wide.
    Spikes erect or the proximal pendent;
    proximal 3–4 spikes pistillate, usually sessile, 2.5–9 cm × 4–5 mm, base attenuate;
    terminal 1–2 spikes staminate.
    Pistillate scales purple-brown to black, shorter than perigynia, apex acute, awnless.
    Perigynia divergent, green, veinless, somewhat flattened, tightly enclosing and distended by the achenes, ovoid, 2.3–4.7 × 1.1–1.8 mm, dull, apex acute, glabrous;
    beak green, often twisted, 0.1–0.3 mm, orifice oblique.