| Carex pyrenaica subsp. micropoda (C. A. Mey.) Hult. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Carex micropoda C. A. Mey. | ||
| Description | Densely caespitose; culms short, slender; leaves strongly convolute, 0.5-1 mm broad; spike oblong-ovate, solitary, bractless, with staminate flowers at top; scales obtuse or somewhat acute, reddish-brown with paler midvein; perigynia ovate- lanceolate, longer than scales, shining, brownish, stipitate, spreading at maturity, with short, glabrous beak; stigmas mostly 2. | ||
| Ecology | Meadows, snow beds. C. pyrenaica described from the Pyrenees, subsp. micropoda from Unalaska. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Circumpolar map indicates range of entire complex. |
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.