Carex sparganioides Muhlenberg ex Willdenow (Q486)

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

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    taxon/id/Carex sparganioides Muhlenberg ex Willdenow
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    Carex sparganioides Muhlenberg ex Willdenow
    Carex sparganioides
    Muhlenberg ex Willdenow
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex faux-rubanier (French)
    burreed sedge (English)
    loose-headed bracted sedge (English)
    Carex faux-rubanier (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 moist deciduous
    mixed forests
    forest edges
    neutral
    basic soils
    Plants without conspicuous rhizomes.
    Culms 30–100 cm, 3–6 mm wide basally, 0.7–1.1 mm wide distally.
    Leaves: proximal sheaths loose, longitudinally green-and-white-striped, green-and-white-mottled, with prominent cross-veins on backs, fronts hyaline and transversely rugose;
    ligules 3–8 mm, as long as wide;
    widest leaf-blades 5–10 mm wide.
    Inflorescences with 6–15 spikes, 3–15 cm × 8–12 mm, occasionally compound and then somewhat larger;
    proximal internodes usually 20+ mm, more than 2 times as long as proximal spikes;
    proximal bracts to 2 cm;
    spikes with up to 50 ascending to spreading perigynia.
    Pistillate scales hyaline with green midvein, ovate to subcircular, 1.8–2.5 × 1.1–1.8 mm, body 1/2 length of perigynium, apex obtuse to acuminate or short-awned.
    Anthers 0.7–1.3 mm.
    Perigynia pale green, with wing 0.1–0.2 mm wide distally, veinless or weakly veined abaxially, 3.3–4.3 × 1.5–2.5 mm, margins serrulate distally;
    beak 0.8–1.2 mm, apical teeth 0.2–0.4 mm.
    Achenes suborbiculate, 1.7–2.2 × 1.5–1.8 mm. 2n = 46, 48.