| Carex rhynchophysa C. A. Mey. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Carex laevirostris (E. Fries) Blytt & Fr. | ||
| Description | Very similar to C. rostrata, but staminate spikes thicker, denser, with divaricate perigynia, often staminate at tip; perigynia inflated, spherical to ovate, abruptly contracted into slender, more cylindrical, strongly bidentate beak; pistillate scales narrow, inconspicuous in spike. | ||
| Ecology | Wet shores, swamps. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Hybrids with C. rostrata occur. | ||
| Uses | The lower part of the plant is eaten by the Eskimos. |
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.