Carex retroflexa Muhlenberg ex Willdenow (Q484)

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

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    taxon/id/Carex retroflexa Muhlenberg ex Willdenow
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    Carex retroflexa Muhlenberg ex Willdenow
    Carex retroflexa
    Muhlenberg ex Willdenow
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex rétroflexe (French)
    reflexed sedge (English)
    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/
    thickets
    openings
    dry deciduous
    forests
    Plants without conspicuous rhizomes.
    Culms 10–75 cm, 1.3–1.8 mm wide basally, 0.5–0.8 mm wide distally.
    Leaves: sheaths tight, green, fronts hyaline;
    ligules less than 2 mm, wider than long;
    widest leaf-blades 1.4–3 mm wide.
    Inflorescences with 3–9 spikes, 1–4 cm × 5–9 mm;
    proximal internodes 1–3 times as long as proximal spikes;
    proximal bracts to 6 cm;
    spikes with 3–10 spreading perigynia.
    Pistillate scales hyaline with green midvein, ovate, 2–3 × 1.4–1.6 mm, 3/4 length to equaling perigynia, apex acute to acuminate.
    Anthers 1.5–2.3 mm.
    Perigynia green to pale-yellow, faces weakly veined, 2.5–3.2 × 1.2–1.8 mm, base of body spongy, thickened and longitudinally striate adaxially, spongy region 0.8–1.5 mm, margins entire, serrulate distally;
    beak 0.7–1 mm, apical teeth 0.1–0.3 mm.
    Stigmas straight or slightly twisted, 0.05 mm wide.
    Achenes ovate-circular, 1.3–1.6 × 1.3–1.5 mm. 2n = 40.