Carex spicata Hudson (Q487)

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Carex spicata is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Phaestoglochin
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Carex spicata Hudson
Carex spicata is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Phaestoglochin

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    taxon/id/Carex spicata Hudson
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    Carex spicata Hudson
    Carex spicata
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex à épi (French)
    laiche en épi (French)
    spiked sedge (English)
    spiked bracted sedge (English)
    prickly sedge (English)
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    Newmaster, S.G., A. Lehela, M.J. Oldham, P.W.C. Uhlig & S. McMurray. 1998. Ontario Plant List. Ontario Forest Research Institute, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Forest Information Paper No. 123. 550 pp.
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    Herbier Marie-Victorin (MT). Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC. Specimen. http://www.biodiversite.umontreal.ca/herbier-marie-victorin?lang=en
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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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    Plants without conspicuous rhizomes.
    Culms 10–85 cm, 1.8–2.2 mm wide basally, 0.5–0.9 mm wide distally;
    basal scales and sheaths usually red or purple-tinged.
    Leaves: sheaths tight, green, fronts hyaline;
    ligules (3.5–) 4–8 mm, longer than wide;
    widest leaf-blades 2–4 mm wide, often papillose adaxially.
    Inflorescences with 3–8 spikes, 1–4 cm × 6–10 mm;
    proximal internodes as long as or slightly longer than proximal spikes;
    proximal bracts to 2 cm;
    spikes with 5–10 spreading to ascending perigynia.
    Pistillate scales brown with green 1–3-veined center, lanceolate to ovate, 3.2–4.5 × 1.7–2.2 mm, body slightly shorter and slightly narrower than perigynium, apex acuminate to short-awned.
    Anthers 1.5–2.5 mm.
    Perigynia greenish brown finally becoming black and glossy, veinless or to 7-veined abaxially, 4–5.5 × 2.2–2.4 mm, base of body somewhat spongy, thickened, margins serrulate distally;
    beak 1.5–2 mm, apical teeth 0.3–0.6 mm.
    Achenes suborbiculate, 2–2.3 × 2 mm. 2n = 58.