| Carex microglechin Wahlenb. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Description | Loosely tufted, with short, brown, scaly runners; culms about 10 cm tall (ex- ceptionally up to 30 cm), straight at base; lowest sheath blade-bearing; spike with staminate flowers at tip, pistillate flowers at base; pistillate scales blunt, drooping; perigynia greenish, lance-subulate, slenderly tapering into beak, with stiff rachilla projecting beyond perigynia and stigmas, which can be seen just at mouth of gray- ish-green perigynia; 3 stigmas. | ||
| Ecology | Moist, preferably calcareous soil. Described from northern Lapland. |
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.