Carex tumulicola Mackenzie (Q488)

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Carex tumulicola is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Phaestoglochin
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Carex tumulicola Mackenzie
Carex tumulicola is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Phaestoglochin

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    taxon/id/Carex tumulicola Mackenzie
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    Carex tumulicola Mackenzie
    Carex tumulicola
    Mackenzie
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex tumulicole (French)
    foothill sedge (English)
    split-awn sedge (English)
    slender sedge (English)
    1 reference
    Klinkenberg, B. (ed.). 2010+. E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Plants of British Columbia. Lab. for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. http://www.eflora.bc.ca http://www.eflora.bc.ca/
    grasslands
    forest openings
    30–1200 m
    Plants with short, stout rhizomes.
    Culms 20–80 cm, 1–1.6 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 1.5–2.5 mm wide, papillose adaxially.
    Inflorescences with 3–10 spikes, 1.5–5 cm × 5–8 mm;
    proximal internodes slightly shorter than to 2 times as long as proximal spikes;
    proximal bracts 1–5 cm;
    spikes with to 10 erect perigynia.
    Pistillate scales brown with green midvein, ovate, 3.3–5.2 × 2–2.8 mm, body as long as and wider than perigynium, apex awned, awn less than 1 mm.
    Anthers 1.9–2.4 mm.
    Perigynia pale green to pale-brown, veinless or veined, 3.5–5 × 1.5–2 mm, base slightly spongy, thickened, margins serrulate distally;
    beak 1–3 mm, apical teeth 0.3–0.6 mm.
    Styles straight, 0.05 mm wide.
    Achenes elliptic-circular, 2–2.4 × 1.4–1.7 mm.