Carex frankii Kunth (Q547)

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Carex frankii is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Squarrosae
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Carex frankii Kunth
Carex frankii is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Squarrosae

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    taxon/id/Carex frankii Kunth
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    Carex frankii Kunth
    Carex frankii
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex de Frank (French)
    Frank's sedge (English)
    bristly cattail 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/
    wet meadows
    muddy margins
    ditches
    0–1500 m
    Plants cespitose, short-rhizomatous.
    Culms 18–80 cm.
    Leaves 2.5–11.5 mm wide, sparingly scabrous.
    Spikes 3–7 (–9), erect;
    lateral spikes pistillate with few staminate flowers at base and rarely also at apex, narrowly elliptic, 12–50 × 7–13 mm;
    terminal spike usually staminate, sometimes gynecandrous, pistillate, or abortive, 6–45 × 2–6 mm.
    Pistillate scales narrow, with indistinct body, 3.6–9 (–11) × 0.1–0.4 mm, apex with long, scabrous awn exceeding perigynium.
    Staminate scales loosely to irregularly imbricate with tips spreading, linear, 4.3–15 × 0.3–0.8 mm, apex with long, scabrous awn.
    Perigynia horizontal, 3.5–6 × 1.4–2.6 mm, minutely pustulate;
    beak 1.3–2.2 mm, smooth.
    Achenes obovoid, sides strongly concave, 1.4–2.1 × 1–1.4 mm, less than 2 times as long as wide;
    style deciduous, straight or sinuous.