Carex lucorum Willdenow ex Link (Q64)

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Carex lucorum is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Acrocystis
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Carex lucorum Willdenow ex Link
Carex lucorum is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Acrocystis

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    taxon/id/Carex lucorum Willdenow ex Link
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    Carex lucorum Willdenow ex Link
    Carex lucorum
    Willdenow ex Link
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    forest sedge (English)
    Blue Ridge sedge (English)
    fire sedge (English)
    long-beaked oak sedge (English)
    carex des forêts (French)
    Carex des forêts (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.
    Plants loosely cespitose;
    rhizomes horizontally spreading, pale-brown to reddish-brown, (5–) 20–80 mm, slender.
    Culms 7–55 cm, scabrous distally;
    bases (remnants of old leaves) fibrous.
    Leaf-blades pale to dark green, 0.7–3.6 mm wide, herbaceous, papillose to scabrous abaxially, papillose to scabrous adaxially, blades of distal cauline leaves poorly developed.
    Inflorescences with both staminate and pistillate spikes;
    peduncles of staminate spikes 0.7–13 mm;
    proximal nonbasal bracts leaflike, shorter than inflorescences.
    Spikes: proximal pistillate spikes 1–3 (basal spikes 0);
    cauline spikes overlapping or somewhat separated, with (2–) 3–13 perigynia;
    staminate spikes 8–22.5 × 1.4–4.6 mm.
    Scales: pistillate scales pale or usually dark reddish-brown, with narrow white margins, ovate to lanceolate, 2.7–4.3 × 0.8–2.4 mm, apex acute to long-acuminate;
    staminate scales obovate to lanceolate, 3.7–6.1 × 1–1.4 mm, obtuse to acute or acuminate.
    Anthers 1.9–4.6 mm.
    Perigynia yellowish green to pale olive, veinless, obovoid, 2.7–4.6 × 1.2–1.7 mm, as long as wide;
    beak straight, pale green to olive, occasionally with reddish-brown tinge near apex, 0.9–1.6 mm, weakly ciliate-serrulate, apical teeth 0.1–0.6 mm.
    Achenes dark-brown, obovoid to globose, obtusely trigonous in cross-section, 1.3–2.2 × 0.9–1.6 mm.