| Carex supina subsp. spaniocarpa (Steud.) Hult. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Carex spaniocarpa Steud. | ||
| Description | Loosely caespitose, with long, reddish-brown, subterranean runners; culms thin, longer than leaves, with reddish sheaths at base; leaves 1-1.5 mm wide; spikes 2-3, the apical staminate, linear, the lateral pistillate, sessile, broad; lower bract scale- like with apical awn; scales about as long as perigynia, ovate, acute, rust-brown, with prominent lighter center, scarious-margined; perigynia ovate to oval-elongate, nerve- less, rust-colored, evenly tapering into short, cylindrical beak. | ||
| Ecology | Dry, sandy places. C. supina described from Europe, subsp. spaniocarpa from Greenland. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of other subspecies. |
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.