Carex cephalophora Muhlenberg ex Willdenow (Q471)

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Carex cephalophora is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Phaestoglochin
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Carex cephalophora Muhlenberg ex Willdenow
Carex cephalophora is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Phaestoglochin

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    taxon/id/Carex cephalophora Muhlenberg ex Willdenow
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    Carex cephalophora Muhlenberg ex Willdenow
    Carex cephalophora
    Muhlenberg ex Willdenow
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex porte-tête (French)
    oval-headed sedge (English)
    woodbank sedge (English)
    oval-leaved sedge (English)
    short-headed bracted sedge (English)
    Carex porte-tête (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.
    dry to wet-mesic deciduous
    mixed forests
    thickets
    open grassy habitats
    Plants without conspicuous rhizomes.
    Culms 20–60 cm, 2–3.5 mm wide basally, 0.5–1 mm wide distally.
    Leaves: sheaths tight, green, rarely white spotted, fronts hyaline, slightly thickened at mouth;
    ligules to 5 mm, longer than wide;
    widest leaf-blades (1.9–) 2.5–5 mm wide.
    Inflorescences forming dense heads, with 3–8 spikes, 0.6–2 cm × 5–10 mm;
    proximal bracts 1–5 cm;
    spikes with 4–20 ascending to spreading perigynia.
    Pistillate scales hyaline with green midvein, ovate, 1–1.8 × 0.8–1.4 mm, body not more than 1/2 length of perigynium, apex acuminate to short-awned.
    Anthers 0.7–1.3 mm.
    Perigynia pale green to pale-yellow, veinless or to weakly 8-veined abaxially, 2.5–3.2 × 1.4–2 mm, body elliptic to circular, widest at 0.4–0.55 length of body, margins serrulate distally;
    beak 0.7–1.1 mm, apical teeth 0.3–0.5 mm.
    Achenes circular, 1 × 1 mm. 2n = 48.