Difference between revisions of "Carex alopecoidea"

Tuckerman

Enum. Meth. Caric., 18. 1843.

Common names: Carex alopécoïde
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Revision as of 20:08, 16 December 2019

Plants with basal sheaths of previous year persistent as linear fibers. Culms to 80 cm × 4 mm, scabrous. Leaves: sheaths all with blades, fronts smooth, red spotted, indistinctly linearly veined, apex hyaline, colorless, fragile, convex, entire; ligules rounded, 5 mm, free limb to 0.5 mm; blades dark green, not epistomic, to 60 cm × 7 mm. Inflorescences densely spicate, elongated, cylindric, with 8–12 branches, 2–4 × 1.5 cm; proximal internode to 0.5 mm; proximal bracts setaceous, apparent. Scales coppery with hyaline margins. Perigynia pale brown, coppery distally, faintly 3–5-veined or veinless abaxially, veinless adaxially, to 4 × 1.7 mm, base not distended proximally, rounded; stipe to 0.2 mm; beak to 2 mm, serrulate. Achenes circular, 1.5 × 1.3 mm; stalk to 0.15 mm; persistent style base cylindric. 2n = 68.


Phenology: Fruiting Jul.
Habitat: Seasonally saturated soils in wet meadows, openings in alluvial woods, stream banks, particularly on calcareous substrates
Elevation: 0–1500 m

Distribution

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Man., N.S., Ont., Que., Sask., Conn., Del., D.C., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Maine, Md., Mass., Mich., Minn., N.J., N.Y., N.Dak., Ohio, Pa., Vt., Wis.

Discussion

Morphologically Carex alopecoidea is most similar to C. conjuncta; it differs in the smooth sheath fronts and the abaxial veins faint or absent.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
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Lisa A. Standley +
Tuckerman +
Vulpinae +
Carex alopécoïde +
Man. +, N.S. +, Ont. +, Que. +, Sask. +, Conn. +, Del. +, D.C. +, Ill. +, Ind. +, Iowa +, Ky. +, Maine +, Md. +, Mass. +, Mich. +, Minn. +, N.J. +, N.Y. +, N.Dak. +, Ohio +, Pa. +, Vt. +  and Wis. +
0–1500 m +
Seasonally saturated soils in wet meadows, openings in alluvial woods, stream banks, particularly on calcareous substrates +
Fruiting Jul. +
Enum. Meth. Caric., +
Illustrated +  and Endemic +
Carex alopecoidea +
Carex sect. Vulpinae +
species +