Carex mertensii J. D. Prescott ex Bongard (Q522)

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Carex mertensii is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Racemosae
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Carex mertensii J. D. Prescott ex Bongard
Carex mertensii is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Racemosae

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    taxon/id/Carex mertensii J.D. Prescott ex Bongard
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    Carex mertensii J.D. Prescott ex Bongard
    Carex mertensii
    J.D. Prescott ex Bongard
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex de Mertens (French)
    Mertens' sedge (English)
    purple 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/
    1 reference
    Packer, J.G. & A.J. Gould. 2017.Vascular Plants of Alberta. Part 1: Ferns, Fern Allies, Gymnospermes, and Monocots. University of Calgary Press, Calgary.
    open forests
    meadows
    stream banks
    0–2000 m
    Culms 30–80 cm, distally scabrous.
    Leaves basal and cauline, 4–8 mm wide;
    proximal leaves reduced to sheaths.
    Inflorescences: proximal bracts usually exceeding, occasionally shorter than, inflorescences;
    spikes separate, the proximal often distant, pendent, long-pendunculate, elongate, cylindric or clavate, 10–40 × 7–9 mm;
    lateral 4–6 (–9) spikes pistillate;
    terminal spike gynecandrous.
    Pistillate scales dark-brown or black to margins, ovate or lanceolate, conspicuously shorter and narrower than perigynia, midvein lighter colored than body, conspicuous, often raised, prominent, mucronate.
    Perigynia ascending, green becoming pale-yellow or brown, faintly veined, ovate, 4–5 × 2.5–3.5 mm, apex gradually beaked, smooth;
    beak 0.3–0.4 mm, truncate or obscurely bidendate, smooth.
    Achenes filling proximal 1/2 or less of perigynia.