| Carex eleusinoides Turcz. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Carex kokrinensis Pors. | ||
| Description | Densely caespitose; culm with purplish, bladeless sheaths at base; leaves flat, 2—-3 mm broad; spikes 3-5, cylindrical, 1-2.5 cm long, the lowest longer-stipitated than the upper, the apical with pistillate flowers above, staminate below, the lateral pistillate, sometimes with staminate flowers at extreme tip; lowest bract as long as inflorescence, or longer; scales elliptical, somewhat acute, brownish-black, narrower than perigynia; perigynia broadly ovate, grayish-green, indistinctly nerved, with short beak; 2 stigmas. | ||
| Ecology | Wet places, gravel bars. |
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.