| Carex sabulosa Turcz. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Carex leiophylla Mack. | ||
| Description | Plant grayish-green, with long, slender rootstock; culm glabrous, curved, with purplish, hyaline-margined sheaths at base, surrounded by numerous weak leaves, 1.5-2.5 mm broad, shorter than culm; spikes 3-5, the terminal club-shaped, with pistillate flowers above, the lateral pistillate; scales ovate-lanceolate, acute, dark brown, as long as perigynia, or longer; perigynia yellowish-green, purplish-blotched, ovate to suborbicular, stipitate, with bidentate, dark beak 1 mm long. | ||
| Ecology | Sandy places. Described from Baikal. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Circumpolar map tentative. |
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.