| Carex misandra R. Br. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Carex fuliginosa var. misandra Kiikenth. | ||
| Description | Caespitose; culm glabrous, nodding above, with conspicuous dried-up leaves at base; leaves usually recurved, much shorter than culm, canaliculate at base, with recurved, light-brown sheaths; lowest bract with long sheath and short blade; termi- nal spike drooping, with pistillate flowers above, the lateral 2-3 pistillate; scales ovate, somewhat acute, dark reddish-brown with lighter midvein, scarious-mar- gined; perigynia longer than scales, narrowly lanceolate, purplish-black above, strongly ciliate on margins of prolonged, bidentate apex. | ||
| Ecology | Sandy and stony places in mountains, marshes. |
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.