| Carex magellanica subsp. irrigua (Wahlenb.) Hult. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Carex limosa var. irrigua Wahlenb., Carex paupercula Michx., Carex magellanica | ||
| Description | Caespitose; roots with yellowish tomentum; culms acutely angled above; leaves about 3 mm broad, pale green, shorter than culm; lowest bract foliaceous, usually exceeding inflorescence; terminal spike mostly staminate, the lateral 2-4 pistillate, short, drooping, on capillary peduncles; scales castaneous to stramineous, long- acuminate, much longer but narrower than the perigynia, falling off in age; peri- gynia 4 mm long, broadly ovate, pale, persistent, longer than scales. | ||
| Ecology | Peaty soil. C. magellanica described from Magellan Sound, subsp. irrigua from northern Sweden. |
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.