Carex lurida Wahlenberg (Q574)

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Carex lurida is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Vesicariae
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Carex lurida Wahlenberg
Carex lurida is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Vesicariae

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    taxon/id/Carex lurida Wahlenberg
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    Carex lurida Wahlenberg
    Carex lurida
    Wahlenberg
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex luisant (French)
    sallow sedge (English)
    bottlebrush sedge (English)
    shallow sedge (English)
    Carex luisant (English)
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    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/
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    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.
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    Hinds, H.R. 2000. Flora of New Brunswick : a manual for the identification of the vascular plants of New Brunswick. 2nd edition. Biology Department, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. 699 pp.
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    Catling, P.M., D.S. Erskine & R.B. MacLaren. 1985. The Plants of Prince Edward Island with new records, nomenclatural changes, and corrections and deletions. Agriculture Canada, Research Branch, Ottawa. Publication 1798. 272 pp.
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    Zinck, M. 1998. Roland's Flora of Nova Scotia. Nimber Publishing & Nova Scotia Museum. Halifax, N. S. 2 vols. 1297 pp.
    Mexico
    West Indies
    South America
    Newfoundland, CA
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    Meades, S., S.G. Hay & L. Brouillet. 2000. Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Newfoundland and Labrador. Published in association with A Digital Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador Vascular Plants. http://www.digitalnaturalhistory.com/meades.htm (consulted 2009-09-02) http://www.digitalnaturalhistory.com/meades.htm
    wet meadows
    marshes
    shores
    streams
    forests
    ditches
    acidic
    sandy soils
    Plants densely to loosely cespitose;
    rhizomes short, no more than 10 cm.
    Culms sharply trigonous in cross-section, (15–) 25–95 (–110) cm, scabrous-angled distally.
    Leaves: basal sheaths reddish purple;
    ligules as wide to slightly longer than wide;
    blades dark green, flat to W-shaped, widest leaves (4–) 4.5–11.5 (–13) mm wide, glabrous.
    Inflorescences 2.7–18 cm;
    proximal bract 9–45 cm, exceeding inflorescence;
    proximal 1–3 (–4) spikes pistillate, erect or the proximal often spreading, (12–) 15–22 mm thick, if spikes less than 15 mm thick, then usually less than 2.5 times as long as wide;
    terminal 1 spike staminate.
    Pistillate scales narrowly oblong, 3.4–11.2 × 0.5–1.1 mm, as long as or shorter than perigynia, margins often ciliate, apex truncate to retuse, erose, prolonged to scabrous awn.
    Staminate scales with distinct, scabrous awn, sometimes ciliate-margined.
    Perigynia spreading, strongly 7–12-veined, veins separate nearly to beak apex, broadly ovate, (6–) 6.5–10.8 × (1.8–) 2–3.5 (–4.2), apex contracted;
    beak 2.5–5.9 mm, 0.7–0.9 length of body, bidentate, smooth, teeth straight, to 0.2–0.8 mm.
    Achenes yellow to brown, trigonous, papillose.