| Carex membranacea Hook. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Carex campacta R. Br., Carex physochlaena Holm. | ||
| Description | Yellowish-green, with long, thick, scaly, dark, horizontal stolons; culms stiff, smooth, with dried-up leaves and brown or purplish sheaths at base; leaf blades firm, 3—4 mm broad, slightly shorter than culm; terminal spike staminate, often with smaller staminate spikes at base; lateral spikes pistillate, sessile or short-peduncled, short-cylindrical, erect, dense, dark; lowest bract leaflike, somewhat shorter than inflorescence; scales ovate, acute, purplish-black; perigynia ovate to globose, shiny, inflated, purplish-black, abruptly contracted into short, emarginate beak. | ||
| Ecology | Wet places. |
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.