View source for Carex stevenii

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|accepted_name=Carex stevenii
|accepted_authority=(T. Holm) Kalela
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ann. Bot. Soc. Zool.-Bot. Fenn. “Vanamo”
|place=19(3): 11. 1944
|year=1944
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Carex alpina var. stevenii
|authority=T. Holm
|rank=variety
|publication_title=Amer. J. Sci.
|publication_place=166: 27. 1903
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex anagare var. stevenii
|authority=(T. Holm) A. E. Porsild
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex media var. stevenii
|authority=(T. Holm) Fernald
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex norvegica var. stevenii
|authority=(T. Holm) Dorn
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex norvegica subsp. stevenii
|authority=(T. Holm) D. F. Murray
|rank=subspecies
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex vahlii var. stevenii
|authority=(T. Holm) Fernald
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Racemosae;Carex stevenii
|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. Racemosae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex stevenii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 406
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>loosely cespitose. <b>Culms</b> 15–60 cm, distally finely scabrous. <b>Leaves</b> 3–4 mm wide. <b>Inflorescences</b>: proximal bracts shorter than or exceeding inflorescences; spikes overlapping, distinct, contiguous, short-oblong or cylindric, 5–15 × 3–4.5 mm; lateral 2–3 spikes pistillate; proximal spikes separate, erect, short-pendunculate; distal lateral contiguous or separate, not forming dense terminal cluster, of similar length; terminal spike gynecandrous. <b>Pistillate</b> scales dark brown to black, margins hyaline, ovate, shorter than and as broad as perigynia, midvein same color as body, inconspicuous. <b>Perigynia</b> ascending, green becoming dark brown or purple-black, veinless, elliptic, 2–2.5 × 1.25–1.5 mm, frequently serrulate, apex abruptly or gradually beaked, smooth or distal margins sparsely papillose; beak 0.2–0.3 mm, shallowly bidentate, serrulate or smooth. <b>Achenes</b> nearly filling body of perigynia.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Open forests, moist meadows, stream banks, occasionally reaching lower alpine tundra (Colorado)
|elevation=2400–3500 m
|distribution=Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;N.Mex.;Utah;Wyo.
|discussion=<p>The illustration in K. K. Mackenzie (1940) as <i>Carex</i> vahlii is <i>C. stevenii</i>. Although morphologically close to <i>C. norvegica</i> and alternatively treated as a race, <i>C. stevenii</i> is ecologically distinct and geographically distant from <i>C. norvegica</i>.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex stevenii
|authority=(T. Holm) Kalela
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex anagare var. stevenii;Carex media var. stevenii;Carex norvegica var. stevenii;Carex norvegica subsp. stevenii;Carex vahlii var. stevenii
|basionyms=Carex alpina var. stevenii
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Open forests, moist meadows, stream banks, occasionally reaching lower alpine tundra (Colorado)
|elevation=2400–3500 m
|distribution=Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;N.Mex.;Utah;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Ann. Bot. Soc. Zool.-Bot. Fenn. “Vanamo”
|publication year=1944
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_729.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Racemosae
|species=Carex stevenii
}}<!--

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