Carex membranacea Hooker in G. F. Lyon (Q575)

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Carex membranacea is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Vesicariae
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Carex membranacea Hooker in G. F. Lyon
Carex membranacea is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Vesicariae

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    taxon/id/Carex membranacea Hooker
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    Carex membranacea Hooker
    Carex membranacea
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex membraneux (French)
    fragile sedge (English)
    fragile-seed sedge (English)
    Carex membraneux (English)
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    Cody, W.J. 2000. Flora of the Yukon Territory. 2nd ed. National Research Press, Ottawa. 669 pp.
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    Porsild, A.E. & W.J. Cody. 1980. Vascular Plants of the Continental Northwest Territories, Canada. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa, Ont. 667 pp.
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    Aiken, S.G., M.J. Dallwitz, L.L. Consaul, C.L., McJannet, R.L., Boles, G.W. Argus, J.M. Gillett, P.J. Scott, R. Elven, M.C. LeBlanc, L.J. Gillespie, A.K. Brysting, H. Solstad & J.G. Harris. 2007. Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago: Descriptions, Illustrations, Identification, and Information Retrieval. [CD-ROM] NRC Research Press, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa.
    Labrador, 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
    ne Asia
    open wetlands
    wet tundra
    rhizomes long, lax.
    Culms trigonous in cross-section, 13–55 cm, scabrous distally.
    Leaves: basal sheaths reddish-brown;
    ligules shorter than wide;
    blades mid to dark green, V-shaped, 2.5–5 (–6.2) mm wide, glabrous.
    Inflorescences 2.5–10 (–13) cm;
    proximal bract 0.6–19 cm, shorter than or equaling inflorescence;
    proximal 1–3 spikes pistillate, erect;
    terminal 1–3 spikes staminate.
    Pistillate scales ovate, 2.2–4.5 × 1–1.7 mm, as long as or shorter than perigynia, margins entire, apex obtuse or acute, awnless.
    Perigynia spreading or reflexed, often dark-colored, obscurely few-veined, veins not running into beak, elliptic, 2.2–4.1 × 1.3–2.2 mm, abruptly contracted;
    beak 0.2–0.8 mm, obscurely bidentulate, smooth, teeth straight, to 0.3 mm.
    Achenes yellow, trigonous, smooth.
    Stigmas 3.2n = 74, 76–80.