| Carex macloviana subsp. pachystachya (Cham.) Hult. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Carex pachystachya Cham., Carex pyrophila Gandoger | ||
| Description | Densely caespitose; culm coarse, sharply angled, and scabrous at summit; leaves firm, shorter than culms, about 4 mm broad; inflorescence capitate, dark brown; spikelets tightly compressed, with staminate flowers at base, pistillate flowers at tip; scales dark brown or chestnut-brown; perigynia ovate, dark brown, serrulated in margin, with long, slender beak. | ||
| Ecology | Meadows, gravelly shores. Described from Falkland Islands, subsp. pachystachya from Unalaska. |
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.