Carex gmelinii Hooker & Arnott (Q517)

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Carex gmelinii is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Racemosae
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Carex gmelinii Hooker & Arnott
Carex gmelinii is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Racemosae

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    taxon/id/Carex gmelinii Hooker & Arnott
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    Carex gmelinii Hooker & Arnott
    Carex gmelinii
    Hooker & Arnott
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex de Gmelin (French)
    Gmelin's 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/
    Asia (Japan)
    Asia (Russian Far East)
    coastal cliffs
    beach meadows
    sand dunes
    swales
    gravels
    0–10 m
    Plants densely cespitose.
    Culms 20–60 cm, distally scabrous.
    Leaves 2–4 mm wide.
    Inflorescences: proximal bracts equaling or exceeding inflorescences;
    spikes separate, short-oblong or elongate, 10–30 × 5–10 mm;
    proximal spikes sometimes spreading, long-pendunculate;
    distal spikes erect, short-pendunculate;
    lateral 2–4 spikes pistillate, contiguous, of similar length;
    terminal spike gynecandrous.
    Pistillate scales dark-brown or black to margins, lanceolate, slightly shorter, equaling, or exceeding and as broad as perigynia, midvein lighter colored than body, conspicuous, raised, prominent, mucronate.
    Perigynia ascending, brown, vein, elliptic, 3.5–5 × 2–3 mm, apex gradually or abruptly beaked, smooth;
    beak 0.2–0.3 mm, truncate or obscurely bidentate, smooth.