| Carex melanocarpa Cham. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Carex ericetorum subsp. melanocarpa (Cham.) Kiikenth. | ||
| Description | Plant grayish-green, tufted, with short runners; culms slender, often curved, glabrous, with reddish-brown sheaths at base; leaf blades 1-2 mm wide, flat, much shorter than culm; spikes 2-3, linear, the apical staminate, the lateral pistillate, sessile; lower bract scalelike, apiculate; scales broadly ovate, narrowly hyaline- margined, ciliate, brown, yellowish-pubescent; perigynia longer than scales, ovate, nerveless, short-pubescent in margin and at short, cylindrical beak. | ||
| Ecology | Stony slopes. Old, doubtful report from St. Lawrence Island. |
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.