Carex tuckermanii Dewey (Q583)

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Carex tuckermanii is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Vesicariae
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Carex tuckermanii Dewey
Carex tuckermanii is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Vesicariae

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    taxon/id/Carex tuckermanii Dewey
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    Carex tuckermanii Dewey
    Carex tuckermanii
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex de Tuckerman (French)
    Tuckerman's sedge (English)
    bent-seeded hop sedge (English)
    Carex de Tuckerman (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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    Zinck, M. 1998. Roland's Flora of Nova Scotia. Nimber Publishing & Nova Scotia Museum. Halifax, N. S. 2 vols. 1297 pp.
    deciduous
    forests
    thickets
    streams
    pond shores
    wet meadows
    rhizomes short or inconspicuous.
    Culms trigonous in cross-section, 40–120 cm, smooth distally.
    Leaves: basal sheaths reddish purple;
    ligules as wide to slightly longer than wide;
    blades dark green, flat to W-shaped, 2–5 mm wide, glabrous.
    Inflorescences 10–35 cm;
    proximal bract 25–70 cm, exceeding inflorescence;
    proximal (1–) 2–3 (–4) spikes pistillate, erect or the proximal spreading or pendent, cylindric;
    terminal 1–3 spikes staminate.
    Pistillate scales narrowly ovate, 3.9–5.2 × 1.2–2.4 mm, shorter than perigynia, margins entire, apex acute, awnless.
    Perigynia ascending, often green or straw colored, strongly 7–12-veined, veins running to beak, broadly elliptic, 7.5–12.5 × (4–) 4.5–7 mm, apex contracted;
    beak 2.4–4.8 mm, smooth, bidentate, teeth straight, 0.7–1.9 mm.
    Achenes brown, trigonous, asymmetric, deeply indented on 1 face, smooth.