Carex exsiccata L. H. Bailey (Q571)

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Carex exsiccata is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Vesicariae
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Carex exsiccata L. H. Bailey
Carex exsiccata is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Vesicariae

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    taxon/id/Carex exsiccata L.H. Bailey
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    Carex exsiccata L.H. Bailey
    Carex exsiccata
    L.H. Bailey
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex desséché (French)
    western inflated sedge (English)
    big inflated sedge (English)
    inflated sedge (English)
    oxbow sedge (English)
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    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/
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    Harms, V.L. 2003. Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Saskatchewan and the provincially and nationally rare native plants in Saskatchewan. University of Saskatchewan, University Extension Press.
    river shores
    marshes
    sedge meadows
    shallow water
    0–1500 m
    rhizomes short or inconspicuous.
    Culms trigonous in cross-section, 30–100 cm, scabrous-angled distally.
    Leaves: basal sheaths reddish purple, thickened, not spongy;
    ligules longer than wide;
    blades mid to dark green, flat to W-shaped, widest leaves 2.5–6.2 mm wide, smooth adaxially.
    Inflorescences 10–36 cm;
    proximal bract 12–55 cm, exceeding but not more than 2.5 times as long as inflorescence;
    proximal 2–4 (–5) spikes pistillate, erect, ca. 20–150-flowered, cylindric;
    terminal 2–3 spikes staminate, well elevated beyond summit of separate pistillate spikes.
    Pistillate scales lanceolate to ovate, 2.6–5.5 × 0.8–2 mm, shorter than perigynia, margins entire, apex acute to acuminate, awnless.
    Perigynia ascending, often green or straw colored, strongly 9–20-veined, veins running into beak, lanceolate, 7.5–10.1 × 1.5–2.4 (–2.7) mm, 3.4–5 times as long as wide, leathery, apex gradually tapered;
    beak indistinct, 1.5–3 mm, bidentate, smooth, teeth straight, 0.2–0.9 mm.
    Achenes brown, symmetric, not indented, trigonous, smooth.