Carex atrosquama Mackenzie (Q513)

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Carex atrosquama is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Racemosae
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Carex atrosquama Mackenzie
Carex atrosquama is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Racemosae

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    taxon/id/Carex atrosquama Mackenzie
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    Carex atrosquama Mackenzie
    Carex atrosquama
    Mackenzie
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex à écailles noires (French)
    laîche à écailles noires (French)
    lesser black-scale sedge (English)
    black-scale sedge (English)
    dark-scale sedge (English)
    blackened sedge (English)
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    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/
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    Packer, J.G. & A.J. Gould. 2017.Vascular Plants of Alberta. Part 1: Ferns, Fern Allies, Gymnospermes, and Monocots. University of Calgary Press, Calgary.
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    Cody, W.J. 2000. Flora of the Yukon Territory. 2nd ed. National Research Press, Ottawa. 669 pp.
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    Porsild, A.E. & W.J. Cody. 1980. Vascular Plants of the Continental Northwest Territories, Canada. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa, Ont. 667 pp.
    subalpine
    alpine meadows
    river gravels
    shorelines
    Plants loosely cespitose.
    Culms 20–50 cm, distally scabrous.
    Leaves 3–5 mm wide.
    Inflorescences: proximal bracts shorter than or exceeding inflorescences;
    spikes contiguous or the proximal separate, overlapping, erect, distinct, short-pendunculate, short-oblong or elongate, 8–20 × 5–6 mm;
    lateral 2–3 (–5) spikes pistillate, of similar length;
    terminal spike gynecandrous.
    Pistillate scales dark-brown or black to margins, ovate or broadly lanceolate, shorter than and as broad as perigynia, midvein same color as body, inconspicuous, occasionally raised, prominent, short-mucronate.
    Perigynia ascending, pale green becoming golden brown, veinless, elliptic, 2.5–3.5 × 1.5–1.75 mm, apex gradually or abruptly beaked, distally papillose;
    beak 0.3–0.5 mm, entire or shallowly bidentate, smooth.