Carex retrorsa Schweinitz (Q578)

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Carex retrorsa is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Vesicariae
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Carex retrorsa Schweinitz
Carex retrorsa is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Vesicariae

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    taxon/id/Carex retrorsa Schweinitz
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    Carex retrorsa Schweinitz
    Carex retrorsa
    Schweinitz
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex réfléchi (French)
    retrorse sedge (English)
    knot-sheath sedge (English)
    turned sedge (English)
    long-bracted sedge (English)
    deflexed bottlebrush sedge (English)
    Carex réfléchi (English)
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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.
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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.
    Newfoundland, CA
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    Herbier Marie-Victorin (MT). Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC. Specimen. http://www.biodiversite.umontreal.ca/herbier-marie-victorin?lang=en
    swamps
    wet thickets
    streams
    marshes
    sedge meadows
    shores
    rhizomes very short or inconspicuous.
    Culms trigonous in cross-section, 10–105 cm, smooth distally.
    Leaves: basal sheaths dark reddish-brown;
    ligules longer than wide;
    blades mid to dark green, flat to W-shaped, widest leaves 3–10 mm wide, glabrous.
    Inflorescences 3–20 (–35) cm;
    proximal bract 19–70 (–100) cm, (2.5–) 3–9 times longer than inflorescence;
    proximal (2–) 3–6 spikes pistillate, ascending to spreading, at least the distal erect, ca. 20–150-flowered, cylindric;
    terminal 1 (–3) spikes staminate, slightly if at all elevated beyond summit of crowded pistillate spikes.
    Pistillate scales narrowly ovate, 2.4–4.5 × 1.1–1.8 mm, shorter than perigynia, margins entire, apex acute to acuminate, awnless.
    Perigynia mostly reflexed at maturity, often green or straw colored, strongly 6–13-veined, veins running into beak, ovate, 6–10 × (1.6–) 2.1–3.4 mm, apex abruptly tapered;
    beak 2.1–4.5 mm, bidentulate, smooth, teeth straight, 0.3–1.1 mm.
    Achenes pale-brown, symmetric, not indented, trigonous, smooth.