Carex cephaloidea (Dewey) Dewey (Q470)

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Carex cephaloidea is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Phaestoglochin
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Carex cephaloidea (Dewey) Dewey
Carex cephaloidea is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Phaestoglochin

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    taxon/id/Carex cephaloidea (Dewey) Dewey
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    Carex cephaloidea (Dewey) Dewey
    Carex cephaloidea
    (Dewey) Dewey
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
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    carex céphaloïde (French)
    thin-leaved sedge (English)
    head-like sedge (English)
    clustered bracted sedge (English)
    Carex céphaloïde (English)
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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/
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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.
    dry to mesic deciduous
    mixed forests
    forest margins
    neutral
    basic soils
    Plants without conspicuous rhizomes.
    Culms 30–120 cm, 2.5–4 mm wide basally, 0.7–1 mm wide distally.
    Leaves: proximal sheaths loose, longitudinally green-and-white-striped and green-and-white-mottled on back, with prominent transverse veins, fronts hyaline, transversely rugose;
    ligules 3–7 mm, slightly longer than wide;
    widest leaf-blades (4–) 5–8 mm wide.
    Inflorescences with 5–10 spikes, 1.5–4 cm × 8–10 mm;
    proximal internodes usually not more than 10 mm, 0.7–1.5 (–2) times as long as proximal spikes;
    proximal bracts to 2 cm;
    spikes with 6–20 ascending to spreading perigynia.
    Pistillate scales hyaline or pale-brown with green midvein, ovate-circular, 1.5–2 × 1.1–1.5 mm, 1/2 length of perigynia, apex subobtuse to acute.
    Anthers 0.7–1.3 mm.
    Perigynia green, with narrow wing not more than 0.1 mm wide distally, weakly 4–7-veined abaxially, 3–4.5 × 1.5–2.5 mm, margins serrulate distally;
    beak 1–1.3 mm, apical teeth 0.2–0.5 mm.
    Achenes suborbiculate, 1.6–2 × 1.3–1.7 mm. 2n = 50.