| Carex stylosa C. A. Mey. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Description | Densely caespitose; culms scabrous; leaves flat, 1.5-2 mm wide, subrigid, shorter than culm; lowest bract shorter than inflorescence, with short sheath; terminal spike staminate, lateral 1-3 thick-cylindrical, erect, compressed, more or less peduncled; scales dark purple with paler midrib, blunt or somewhat acute; perigynia elliptical or ovate, nerveless, dark with short beak, in age with thick, very characteristic, long, protruding style. | ||
| Ecology | Moist places, muskeg. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | In eastern North America, var. nigritélla (Drej.) Fern. (C. nigritella Drej.) oc- curs. |
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.