Carex albonigra

Mackenzie

in P. A. Rydberg, Fl. Rocky Mts., 137, 1060. 1917.

IllustratedEndemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 23. Treatment on page 405. Mentioned on page 403, 404.

Plants densely cespitose. Culms 10–30 cm, distally finely scabrous. Leaves 2.5–5 mm wide. Inflorescences: proximal bracts shorter than or exceeding inflorescences; spikes contiguous, overlapping, erect, distinct, short-pendunculate, short-oblong or elongate, 8–20 × 4–7 mm; lateral 1–3 spikes pistillate pedunculate, of similar length; terminal spike gynecandrous. Pistillate scales light to dark brown with hyaline margins, broadly lanceolate or ovate, equaling perigynia, midvein same color as body, inconspicuous, raised, prominent, short-mucronate. Perigynia ascending, chestnut, veinless, ovate, 3–3.5 × 2–2.5 mm, apex abruptly beaked, papillose; beak 0.3–0.4 mm, entire or shallowly bidentate, smooth. Achenes nearly filling body of perigynia. 2n = 52, 54.


Phenology: Fruiting Jun–Aug.
Habitat: Alpine meadows, fellfields
Elevation: 300–3900 m

Distribution

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Alta., B.C., N.W.T., Yukon, Alaska, Ariz., Calif., Colo., Idaho, Mont., N.Mex., Utah, Wash., Wyo.

Discussion

Specimens from California determined as Carex albonigra are provisionally assigned here; these need further study because they differ from the typical Rocky Mountain forms.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
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David F. Murray +
Mackenzie +
Alta. +, B.C. +, N.W.T. +, Yukon +, Alaska +, Ariz. +, Calif. +, Colo. +, Idaho +, Mont. +, N.Mex. +, Utah +, Wash. +  and Wyo. +
300–3900 m +
Alpine meadows, fellfields +
Fruiting Jun–Aug. +
in P. A. Rydberg, Fl. Rocky Mts., +
Illustrated +  and Endemic +
Carex sect. Atratae +  and Carex sect. Microrhynchae +
Carex albonigra +
Carex sect. Racemosae +
species +