Carex egglestonii

Mackenzie

Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 42: 614. 1915.

IllustratedEndemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 23. Treatment on page 378. Mentioned on page 341, 375.

Plants densely cespitose. Culms 33–72 cm. Leaves: sheath adaxially white-hyaline or brownish tinged, occasionally only in very narrow band extending 2.5 cm proximal to collar; summit usually U-shaped; distal ligules 1–2.5 (–3.5) mm; blades 3–4 (–5) per fertile culm, 15–30 cm × (2.8–) 3–4.5 mm. Inflorescences dense, green and brown, gold and brown, or light-brown, (1.7–) 2–3 cm × 15–21 (–27) mm; proximal internode (2–) 3.5–7 (–11) mm; 2d internode 2–5 mm; proximal bracts bristlelike, shorter than inflorescences or occasionally leaflike. Spikes 4–5, distant, distinct, broadly ovoid, 11–16 × 6–12 mm, base rounded to attenuate, apex acute to truncate. Pistillate scales gold, redbrown, or chestnut-brown, sometimes with green to gold midstripe, lanceolate to broadly ovate, 4.7–6.7 mm, shorter and narrower than perigynia, margin white 0.1–0.2 (–0.4) mm wide, apex acute to acuminate. Perigynia ascending or appressed-ascending, green to gold, veinless on each face or, occasionally, 6-veined abaxially, broadly ovate, usually flat except over achene, (5.5–) 6–7.2 × 2.7–3.8 mm, 0.5–0.7 mm thick, 1.8–2.3 times as long as wide, margin flat, including wing 0.5–1.1 mm wide, ciliate-serrulate at least distally; beak red-gold to redbrown, sometimes white-hyaline at tip, flat, ± ciliate-serrulate, abaxial suture with conspicuous white margin, distance from beak tip to achene 3–4.3 mm. Achenes broadly ovate to broadly elliptic, (1.8–) 2–2.3 × (1.1–) 1.3–1.6 mm, (0.4–) 0.5–0.7 mm thick.


Phenology: Fruiting summer.
Habitat: Dry, open areas
Elevation: 2400–3700 m

Discussion

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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... more about "Carex egglestonii"
broadly ovate;broadly elliptic +
smaller +
0.5mm +  and 0.7mm +
bidentatate +
papillose +
acute;acuminate +
Joy Mastrogiuseppe +, Paul E. Rothrock +, A. C. Dibble +  and A. A. Reznicek +
Mackenzie +
persistent +
rounded +  and attenuate +
not enlarged +
ciliate-serrulate +
0.28 cm2.8 mm <br />0.0028 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
15 cm150 mm <br />0.15 m <br /> (30 cm300 mm <br />0.3 m <br />) +
3 +  and 4 +
v--shaped +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.45 cm4.5 mm <br />0.0045 m <br />) +
glumaceous +  and foliaceous +
2-ranked +  and arranged +
ascending +  and appressed +
scale-like +  and leaflike +
parallel +  and divergent +
terete +, rolled +  and plicate +
round +  and trigonous +
33 cm330 mm <br />0.33 m <br /> (72 cm720 mm <br />0.72 m <br />) +
0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br /> (0.35 cm3.5 mm <br />0.0035 m <br />) +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br />) +
Colo. +, Utah +  and Wyo. +
2400–3700 m +
open +, pistillate +  and staminate +
hypogynous +  and subtending +
biconvex +  and trigonous +
Dry, open areas +
1.7 cm17 mm <br />0.017 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
2.1 cm21 mm <br />0.021 m <br /> (2.7 cm27 mm <br />0.027 m <br />) +
light-brown +, punct +, gold and brown +, green and brown +, list +  and coloration +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (2.1 cm21 mm <br />0.021 m <br />) +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
not prophyllate +, sessile +  and pistillate +
multi-ranked +, 2-ranked +, 3-ranked +  and alternate +
basal +  and cauline +
conspicuous +
0.5mm +  and 1.1mm +
green +  and gold +
with (1-)3-6(-30) bristles and/or scales +
green +  and gold +
appressed-ascending +  and ascending +
0.5mm +  and 0.7mm +
Fruiting summer. +
2-3(-4)-carpellate +
3 (?) +  and 1 (?) +
0.35 cm3.5 mm <br />0.0035 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
Bull. Torrey Bot. Club +
adventitious +
chestnut-brown +, redbrown +  and gold +
basal +  and proximal +
lanceolate;broadly ovate +
0.47 cm4.7 mm <br />0.0047 m <br /> (0.67 cm6.7 mm <br />0.0067 m <br />) +
herbaceous +  and membranous +
not differentiated +
cylindric +
Illustrated +  and Endemic +
distinct +
1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br /> (1.6 cm16 mm <br />0.016 m <br />) +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
1 +  and 3 +
septate +, hollow +  and solid +
compressed +, terete +  and trigonous +
papillate +
deciduous +  and persistent +
2-3(-4)-fid +
u--shaped +
Carex egglestonii +
Carex sect. Ovales +
species +
plant +  and cespitose +