Carex flacca Schreber (Q566)

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Carex flacca is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Thuringiaca
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Carex flacca Schreber
Carex flacca is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Thuringiaca

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    taxon/id/Carex flacca Schreber
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    Carex flacca Schreber
    Carex flacca
    Schreber
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex glauque (French)
    laîche glauque (French)
    laiche flasque (French)
    heath sedge (English)
    flabby sedge (English)
    blue sedge (English)
    glaucous sedge (English)
    Carex glauque (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/
    1 reference
    Marie-Victorin, Fr. 1995. Flore laurentienne. 3e éd. Mise à jour et annotée par L. Brouillet, S.G. Hay, I. Goulet, M. Blondeau, J. Cayouette et J. Labrecque. Gaétan Morin éditeur. 1093 pp.
    1 reference
    Zinck, M. 1998. Roland's Flora of Nova Scotia. Nimber Publishing & Nova Scotia Museum. Halifax, N. S. 2 vols. 1297 pp.
    Europe
    New Zealand
    abandoned quarries
    ditches
    marshes
    wet forest edges
    Culms obtusely trigonous, to 35 cm × 1.5 mm, scabrous distally.
    Leaves: sheaths with blades, to 2 cm, rough, fronts spotted redbrown apically, ladder-fibrillose, orifice redbrown, slightly prolonged beyond blade and sheath, leathery;
    blades 35 cm × 3 mm, margins rough;
    proximal blades blue-green, densely papillose.
    Inflorescences to 10 cm;
    peduncle of staminate spike to 2.5 cm;
    proximal bracts about equaling inflorescences;
    staminate spikes 1–3;
    pistillate spikes 2–3, to 4 cm × 4 mm.
    Scales redbrown with green midrib and hyaline margins, obovate, apex obtuse or with short mucro to 0.3 mm, equaling perigynia and narrower.
    Anthers to 2.5 mm.
    Perigynia ascending, green, spotted redbrown on distal 1/2, sessile, 2.2 × 1.4 mm;
    Achenes brown, 1.6 × 1.1 mm.