Carex shortiana Dewey (Q543)

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Carex shortiana is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Shortianae
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Carex shortiana Dewey
Carex shortiana is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Shortianae

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    taxon/id/Carex shortiana Dewey
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    Carex shortiana Dewey
    Carex shortiana
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex de Short (French)
    Short's sedge (English)
    1 reference
    Newmaster, S.G. & S. Ragupathy. 2005. Flora Ontario - Integrated Botanical Information System (FOIBIS), Phase I. University of Guelph, Canada. http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis/
    rich woods
    slopes
    swampy woods
    thickets
    open grounds
    spring-fed meadows
    prairie swales
    pond margins
    low depressions
    streams
    ditches
    bottomlands
    calcareous soils
    Culms in medium to large-sized clumps, 30–90 cm.
    Leaves cauline, usually overtopping culms;
    blades 10–40 (–50) cm × 4–9 mm.
    Inflorescences with proximal spikes ± strongly separate on slender peduncles, others approximate and short-pedunculate or subsessile, narrowly oblong to cylindric, 1–4 cm × 3.5–5.6 mm;
    lateral spikes, if gynecandrous, with ca. 30–140 pistillate flowers distally and (0–) 1–10 staminate flowers proximally;
    terminal spikes staminate proximally, 1/2–3/4 pistillate distally.
    Pistillate scales ovate, 1.5–3.2 mm, mostly not quite as long as perigynia.
    Perigynia olive green to brown, very broadly compressed-obovoid, sharply edged, 2–2.6 × 1.8–2.4 mm;
    beak often projecting out at 90° angle.
    Achenes widely oblong-obovoid, 1.5–1.8 × 1–1.3 mm, apex short-apiculate.