| Kobresia simplicitiscula (Wahlenb.) Mack. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Kobresia simpliciuscula var. americana Duman., Carex simpliciuscula Wahlenb., Kobresia caricina Willd. | ||
| Description | Tufted, with short rhizomes; culm about 1 mm thick, firm, surrounded by blade- bearing sheaths at base; leaves filiform, shorter than culm; spike lanceolate to ob- long, lobed, with several spikelets with 1 pistillate and 1 staminate flower and with staminate terminal spikelet; stigmas 3. | ||
| Ecology | Calcareous rocky slopes, heaths; in the mountains to at least 2,000 meters. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.