| Carex lyngbyaei Hornem. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Carex lyngbyaei subsp. eryptocarpa (C. A. Mey.) Hult., Carex cryptocarpa C. A. Mey. | ||
| Description | Stoloniferous, tufted; culms triangular, glabrous, longer than leaves; leaves flat, light green, abruptly pointed; staminate spikes 2-3, pistillate 2-4 drooping, long- peduncled, usually staminate at tip; lower bracts extending slightly beyond spikes; scales lanceolate, long-accuminate, dark reddish-brown with lighter center, much longer than perigynia; perigynia ovate, 6—8-nerved with short beak. | ||
| Ecology | Coastal salt marshes, rarely inland. Described from Faeroe Islands. |
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.