Carex hassei L. H. Bailey (Q95)

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Carex hassei is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Bicolores
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Carex hassei L. H. Bailey
Carex hassei is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Bicolores

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    taxon/id/Carex hassei L.H. Bailey
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    Carex hassei L.H. Bailey
    Carex hassei
    L.H. Bailey
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex de Hasse (French)
    Hasse's sedge (English)
    salt sedge (English)
    1000–3000 m
    Culms 10–40 (–70) cm.
    Leaves: blades 5–20 (–1.5–25) cm × 2–3 (–3.7) mm.
    Inflorescences: proximal bracts with well-developed blades exceeding inflorescences, sheaths to 10 mm, rarely in dwarf alpine plants with bracts scalelike, sheathless;
    lateral spikes with (3–) 10–30 flowers, approximate or proximal distant, dense to somewhat lax, (4–) 10–23 × 3–5 mm;
    middle internodes 0.5–1 mm;
    terminal spike usually staminate, occasionally gynecandrous, sessile or short-pedunculate, 6–18 mm, (1.8–) 2–3.5 mm wide in staminate portion.
    Pistillate scales ascending, pale-brown to medium brown with paler center, ovate to ovate-circular, 2–3.2 × 1.2–2 mm, apex obtuse to acuminate, often mucronate to aristate.
    Proximal staminate scales pale-brown with paler midvein and hyaline margins, oblong-obovate, 3–6 (–15) mm, apex obtuse to long-acuminate.
    Perigynia ascending, whitish, elliptic-obovate, (2.1–) 2.3–3.1 × 1.2–1.9 mm, densely papillose.
    Achenes elliptic-circular, 1.2–2 × 1.1–1.5 mm.