| Carex ramenskii Kom. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Carex salina var. cuspidata Holm. | ||
| Description | Loosely caespitose with brown runners; culm triangular, glabrous, up to 30 cm tall, with reddish-brown sheaths at base; leaves flat, often extending beyond culms, 2-3 mm broad; spikes 3-5, the apical 1-2-staminate, the pistillate ovate or pro- longed, short-peduncled, often with staminate flowers at tip; lower bract extending beyond inflorescence; scales dark brown with lighter midvein, somewhat shorter than perigynia; perigynia elliptical or ovate, slightly nerved, with short beak. | ||
| Ecology | Coastal salt marshes. |
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.