Carex novae-angliae Schweinitz (Q66)

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Carex novae-angliae is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Acrocystis
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Carex novae-angliae Schweinitz
Carex novae-angliae is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Acrocystis

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    taxon/id/Carex novae-angliae Schweinitz
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    Carex novae-angliae Schweinitz
    Carex novae-angliae
    Schweinitz
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex de Nouvelle-Angleterre (French)
    carex de la Nouvelle-Angleterre (French)
    New England sedge (English)
    Carex de Nouvelle-Angleterre (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.
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    Etcheberry, R. 1989. Plantes de Saint-Pierre et Miquelon. Unpublished list (MT).
    St. Pierre and Miquelon
    Newfoundland, 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
    moist to mesic sites
    partial shade
    mixed deciduous forests
    spruce-hemlock canopies
    Plants loosely cespitose;
    rhizomes ascending to erect, reddish to reddish-brown, 0–10 (–20) mm, slender.
    Culms 5–40 cm, weakly scabrous distally;
    bases not fibrous.
    Leaf-blades green, equaling or exceeding culms, 0.7–1.5 mm wide, herbaceous, smooth to papillose abaxially, weakly scabrous adaxially.
    Inflorescences with both staminate and proximal spikes;
    peduncles of staminate spikes 1.9–5.9 mm;
    proximal nonbasal bracts leaflike, equaling or shorter than inflorescences.
    Spikes: proximal pistillate spikes 2–3 (basal spikes 0);
    cauline spikes remote, nonoverlapping, proximal 2 usually separated by more than 7 mm, with 3–10 perigynia;
    staminate spikes 4–15 × 0.7–1.3 mm.
    Scales: pistillate scales pale-brown to pale reddish-brown, ovate, 2–2.5 × 1–1.4 mm, shorter than to equaling perigynia, apex cuspidate to acuminate;
    staminate scales oblong to oblanceolate, 3.1–4.6 × 0.7–1.3 mm, apex long-acuminate to obtuse.
    Anthers 1.5–2.1 mm.
    Perigynia pale green, veinless, ellipsoid, 2.2–2.6 × 0.8–1 mm, longer than wide;
    beak 0.3–0.7 mm, straight, pale green, apical teeth 0.2–0.3 mm.
    Achenes dark-brown, obovoid to ellipsoid, acutely trigonous in cross-section, 1.4–1.7 × 0.7–0.9 mm.