View source for Carex albursina

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex albursina
|accepted_authority=E. Sheldon
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=20: 284. 1893
|year=1893
}}
|common_names=Carex du lac à l’Ours-Blanc
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Carex laxiflora var. latifolia
|authority=Boott
|rank=variety
|publication_title=Ill. Carex,
|publication_place=38, plate 93. 1858,
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Laxiflorae;Carex albursina
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cyperaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Carex]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Carex sect. Laxiflorae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex albursina]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 432, 437, 439, 452
|treatment_page=page 440
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Culms </b>densely tufted, lateral, ascending or lax to decumbent, distinctly winged, 10–62 cm × 2–2.4 mm; basal sheath light brown to brown, the proximal frequently wine-red or purple, small, triangular. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths 2–15 mm; blades ascending, midrib well developed, 2 lateral veins conspicuous, slightly more so than other veins, flat, thin, 10–35 cm × 10–38 mm, widest leaf 13–38(–62) mm wide, blades of overwintering leaves smooth. <b>Inflorescences</b>: peduncles of proximal spikes to 5.8 cm; of terminal spike absent. <b>Bracts</b> 1.4–2.6 cm × 3.9–2.2(–3.2) mm; bract blades of distal lateral spikes lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, wider than spikes, concealing them, widest bract blade of distalmost lateral spike (2.9–)3.2–8.3 mm wide. <b>Spikes</b> 4(–5) per culm; lateral spikes 6–36 × 3–4.2 mm; terminal spike erect, linear, 4–18 × 1.2–1.6 mm, often hidden by distal 2 pistillate spikes and distal bract blade, frequently exceeded by distal 2 pistillate bracts. <b>Pistillate</b> scales oblong, 2.8–3.2 × 1.4–2 mm, apex obtuse or truncate, awnless (sometimes mucronate). <b>Staminate</b> scales oblong ovate, 2.8–3.2 × 1.4–2 mm, margins hyaline, apex obtuse. <b>Anthers</b> 2–2.2 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> 3–20 per spike, strongly to loosely overlapping, erect or ascending, obovate, 3–4.2 × 1.8–2.1 mm; beak abruptly bent, 0.3–0.6 mm. <b>Achenes</b> ovoid, 2.5–3.8 × 1.6–1.8 mm. <b>2n</b> = 44.</span><!--

-->{{Treatment/Body
|phenology=Fruiting spring.
|habitat=Moist deciduous or deciduous-evergreen forests, on steep slopes, or often, around limestone escarpments, washes, slides, or cave entrances
|elevation=100–1200 m
|distribution=Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;D.C.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|tables=
|references=
}}<!--

--><!--

-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex albursina
|authority=E. Sheldon
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Carex laxiflora var. latifolia
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring.
|habitat=Moist deciduous or deciduous-evergreen forests, on steep slopes, or often, around limestone escarpments, washes, slides, or cave entrances
|elevation=100–1200 m
|distribution=Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;D.C.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1893
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_807.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Laxiflorae
|species=Carex albursina
}}<!--

-->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Carex sect. Laxiflorae]]