| Carex sychnocephala Carey | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Description | Caespitose; culm with old leaves at base; leaves 1.5-3 mm broad, scabrous in margin; spikes with inconspicuous staminate flowers at base, pistillate flowers at tip; lower 2—4 bracts up to 20 cm long, leaflike; scales acuminate; perigynia (in- cluding bidentate beak) lanceolate, serrulate in margin, longer than scales, greenish with reddish-brown tip. | ||
| Ecology | Meadows, grassy slopes. Described from “Nov. Ebor. Comitat.” (New York). |
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.