| Carex macrocephala Willd. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Carex macrocephala subsp. anthericoides (Presl) Hult., Carex anthericoides Presl | ||
| Description | Long, horizontal, scaly rootstock, buried deep in sand; culms stout and stiff, with old leaves at base; leaves yellowish-green, thick, serrulate, pungent; plant dioecious; pistillate spikes crowded into large ovate head, 3-5 cm long and about 3 c¢m broad; staminate heads 3—4 cm long, 1 cm broad, with numerous spikes; perigynia lance-ovate, serrulate in margin, with long, bidentate beak. | ||
| Ecology | Sandy seashores. Described from Siberia. |
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.