Carex inops L. H. Bailey (Q61)

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Carex inops is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Acrocystis
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Carex inops L. H. Bailey
Carex inops is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Acrocystis

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    taxon/id/Carex inops L.H. Bailey
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    Carex inops L.H. Bailey
    Carex inops
    L.H. Bailey
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    long-stolon sedge (English)
    carex dépourvu (French)
    Plants loosely cespitose;
    rhizomes horizontally spreading, brown to reddish-brown, 20–70 mm, slender.
    Culms 13–50 cm, scabrous distally;
    bases (remnants of old leaves) weakly to strongly fibrous.
    Leaf-blades green, 0.7–4.5 mm wide, herbaceous, smooth to scabrous abaxially, smooth to scabrous adaxially.
    Inflorescences with both staminate and pistillate spikes;
    peduncles of staminate spikes (0.8–) 2.5–20 mm;
    proximal cauline bracts leaflike, green or reddish-brown, shorter than inflorescences.
    Spikes: proximal pistillate spikes 1–3 (–4) (basal spikes 0, rarely 1);
    cauline spikes overlapping or somewhat separated, with (2–) 5–15 perigynia;
    staminate spikes 8–30 × 1.3–4.1 mm.
    Scales: pistillate scales pale-brown to dark reddish-brown or purplish brown, narrow white margins, elliptic to ovate, 2.6–5.4 × 1.2–2.6 mm, equaling perigynia, apex acute to acuminate or short-awned (rarely obtuse);
    staminate scales with white margins 0.4–0.8 mm wide, lanceolate to obovate, 3.6–6.7 × 1.2–1.7 mm apex obtuse to long-acuminate.
    Anthers (1.5–) 2–3.8 mm.
    Perigynia yellowish green to pale-brown or olive, veinless, obovoid, 2.8–4.6 × 1.5–2.2 mm, as long as wide;
    beak straight, pale green, occasionally with reddish tinge, 0.4–1.3 mm, weakly ciliate-serrulate, apical teeth 0.1–0.7 mm.
    Achenes dark-brown, obovoid to globose, obtusely trigonous in cross-section, (1.4–) 1.6–2.5 × 1.5–2.2 mm.