Carex cumberlandensis

Naczi Kral & Bryson

Sida 19: 994, figs. 1–5, 7. 2001.

Treatment appears in FNA Volume 23. Treatment on page 444. Mentioned on page 445.

Plants densely cespitose, from short rhizomes. Culms erect or ascending, 7–27 cm × 0.4–0.7 mm; vegetative shoots taller than culms, (1.4–) 1.7–3.7 (–4.9) times as tall as tallest flowering culm; blades of vegetative shoots 1–3.5 times wider than bract blades. Leaves: basal sheaths white to light-brown; nonbasal sheaths 2.1–10.6 mm; blades erect, drooping or recurved, dark green, 0.4–52 cm × 1.6–6.1 mm, usually exceeding culms. Inflorescences: spikes (3–) 4 per culm, scattered; peduncles of proximal pistillate spikes drooping, to 9.1 cm; bracts dark green, 10–28 cm × 1.8–5.9 mm, well developed, blade of distal lateral spike (12–) 17–51 times as long as wide. Pistillate spikes: the proximal usually, usually basal, the distal sessile to very short-pedunculate, often hidden in foliage, 5.3–17 × 2.8–4.1 mm. Staminate spike sessile or nearly so, (8.3–) 9.6–16 (–21.1) × 0.6–1.3 mm, often hidden by distal bract and/or pistillate spikes. Pistillate scales 1.3–2.2 × 1.4–2.1 mm, midribs green, margins hyaline, apex acute, proximal scales of lateral spikes subtending perigynia. Staminate scales (2.6–) 2.8–3.5 (–3.8) × 1.1–1.7 mm, midribs green, margins hyaline, apex obtuse. Anthers 1.2–1.8 mm. Perigynia 4–8 (–9) per spike, distichously overlapping, finely veined, obovoid, 2.9–3.8 × 1.5–2.1 mm; beak tapering. Achenes ellipsoid, 2.2–2.9 × 1.4–1.8 mm, sides flat at maturity, filling perigynia. Style tapering from swelling just beyond attachment to achene, bent, ascending through entire orifice.


Phenology: Fruiting spring.
Habitat: Mesic, deciduous or mixed deciduous-evergreen forests, often calcareous soils
Elevation: 200–1200 m

Distribution

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Ala., Ark., Ga., Ind., Ky., Miss., N.C., Ohio, Pa., S.C., Tenn., Va., W.Va.

Discussion

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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... more about "Carex cumberlandensis"
0.22 cm2.2 mm <br />0.0022 m <br /> (0.29 cm2.9 mm <br />0.0029 m <br />) +
ellipsoid +
smaller +
1.4mm;1.8mm +
0.12 cm1.2 mm <br />0.0012 m <br /> (0.18 cm1.8 mm <br />0.0018 m <br />) +
obtuse;acute +
Charles T. Bryson +  and Robert F. C. Naczi +
Naczi Kral & Bryson +
white;light-brown +
tapering +
tapering +
(12-)17-51 +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (52 cm520 mm <br />0.52 m <br />) +
m--shaped +
0.16 cm1.6 mm <br />0.0016 m <br /> (0.61 cm6.1 mm <br />0.0061 m <br />) +
glumaceous +  and foliaceous +
2-ranked +  and arranged +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (28 cm280 mm <br />0.28 m <br />) +
ascending +  and appressed +
scale-like +  and leaflike +
0.18 cm1.8 mm <br />0.0018 m <br /> (0.59 cm5.9 mm <br />0.0059 m <br />) +
parallel +  and divergent +
terete +, rolled +  and plicate +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (?) +
purple +  and brown +
7 cm70 mm <br />0.07 m <br /> (27 cm270 mm <br />0.27 m <br />) +
ascending +  and erect +
round +  and trigonous +
0.4mm;0.7mm +
short-pedunculate +  and sessile to very +
0.53 cm5.3 mm <br />0.0053 m <br /> (1.7 cm17 mm <br />0.017 m <br />) +
0.28 cm2.8 mm <br />0.0028 m <br /> (0.41 cm4.1 mm <br />0.0041 m <br />) +
Ala. +, Ark. +, Ga. +, Ind. +, Ky. +, Miss. +, N.C. +, Ohio +, Pa. +, S.C. +, Tenn. +, Va. +  and W.Va. +
200–1200 m +
hypogynous +  and subtending +
1 +  and 2 +
biconvex +  and trigonous +
Mesic, deciduous or mixed deciduous-evergreen forests, often calcareous soils +
prophyllate +, pedunculate +  and pistillate +
multi-ranked +, 2-ranked +, 3-ranked +  and alternate +
basal +  and cauline +
0.21 cm2.1 mm <br />0.0021 m <br /> (1.06 cm10.6 mm <br />0.0106 m <br />) +
with (1-)3-6(-30) bristles and/or scales +
0.29 cm2.9 mm <br />0.0029 m <br /> (0.38 cm3.8 mm <br />0.0038 m <br />) +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.21 cm2.1 mm <br />0.0021 m <br />) +
Fruiting spring. +
2-3(-4)-carpellate +
3 (?) +  and 1 (?) +
bladeless +  and leaflike +
adventitious +
staminate +  and pistillate +
0.35 cm3.5 mm <br />0.0035 m <br /> (0.38 cm3.8 mm <br />0.0038 m <br />) +
basal +  and proximal +
2-keeled +
0.11 cm1.1 mm <br />0.0011 m <br /> (0.17 cm1.7 mm <br />0.0017 m <br />) +
cylindric +
1-3.5 times wider than bract blades +
(1.4-)1.7-3.7(-4.9) times as tall as tallest flowering culm +
pistillate +, nearly +, sessile +  and staminate +
1.6 cm16 mm <br />0.016 m <br /> (2.11 cm21.1 mm <br />0.0211 m <br />) +
0.96 cm9.6 mm <br />0.0096 m <br /> (1.6 cm16 mm <br />0.016 m <br />) +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (9.1 cm91 mm <br />0.091 m <br />) +
0.06 cm0.6 mm <br />6.0e-4 m <br /> (0.13 cm1.3 mm <br />0.0013 m <br />) +
1 +  and 3 +
septate +, hollow +  and solid +
compressed +, terete +  and trigonous +
papillate +
deciduous +
bent +  and tapering +
swelling +
Carex cumberlandensis +
Carex sect. Careyanae +
species +
plant +  and cespitose +