Carex echinata Murray (Q554)

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Carex echinata is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Stellulatae
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Carex echinata Murray
Carex echinata is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Stellulatae

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    taxon/id/Carex echinata Murray
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    Carex echinata Murray
    Carex echinata
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    laîche étoilée (French)
    laiche hérisson (French)
    star sedge (English)
    spiny star sedge (English)
    stellate sedge (English)
    little prickly sedge (English)
    prickly sedge (English)
    large-fruited star sedge (English)
    bristle-fruited sedge (English)
    carex étoilé (French)
    Mexico
    Central America
    Eurasia
    Culms 10–90 (–135) cm.
    Leaves 3–6 per culm;
    sheaths tight, inner band hyaline, 1.8–2.5 cm, apex concave, glabrous;
    ligules 0.6–2.5 (–4.5) mm, rounded to ± acute;
    blades plicate, 5–40 cm × 0.7–3.3 (–3.8) mm, widest leaf 1–3.3 (–3.8) mm wide.
    Inflorescences 0.7–7.8 cm;
    spikes (2–) 3–8;
    lateral spikes pistillate often with few staminate flowers proximally, 3–15.5 mm, sessile, staminate portion 7-flowered, to 8.2 mm, pistillate portion 3–32-flowered, 2.5–11 mm;
    basal 2 spikes 1.7–42 mm apart;
    terminal spike gynecandrous, 5–24 mm, staminate portion 2–17-flowered, 2–16.5 × 0.9–2 mm, pistillate portion 4–26-flowered, 2.6–9 × 4.9–9.1 mm.
    Pistillate scales ovate, (1.4–) 2.1–3.1 × 0.7–2.3 mm, apex acute to sometimes obtuse.
    Staminate scales ovatelanceolate to ovate, 1.3–3.8 × 0.8–1.7 mm, base clavate, apex acute.
    Anthers 0.8–1.6 (–2) mm.
    Perigynia spreading to reflexed, castaneous to dark-brown, 2–14-veined abaxially, 0–12-veined adaxially over achene, lanceolate to ovate, (2.65–) 2.9–4.75 × 0.8–2.1 mm, (1.7–) 1.8–3.2 (–3.6) times as long as wide;
    beak (0.85–) 0.95–2 mm, (0.4–) 0.45–0.86 length of body, serrulate, teeth (0–) 0.15–0.5 mm.
    Achenes ovatelanceolate to rhombic-ovate, 1.3–2.1 × 0.8–1.55 mm. 2n = 58.