Carex lapponica

O. Lang

Linnaea 24: 539. 1851.

Common names: Carex de Laponie
Illustrated
Synonyms: Carex canescens var. subloliacea Laestadius
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 23. Treatment on page 318. Mentioned on page 313, 317.

Plants densely cespitose, in small clumps; rhizomes short. Culms erect, relatively strict, 15–40 cm. Leaves: sheaths relatively tight, pale-brown abaxially, inner band thin, hyaline, concave at summit; ligules as wide as long; blades pale green to gray-green, flat, 10–20 cm × 1–2 mm, subequal to or shorter than culms, papillose, densely so abaxially. Inflorescences 1.5–4 cm × 4–5 mm; proximal bracts shorter than to exceeding spikes, distal bracts usually scalelike. Spikes 3–6 (–7), gynecandrous, proximal sometimes remote, distal approximate, containing 10–20 perigynia, suborbicular to ovoid, 3–7 × 3–5 mm; terminal spike staminate for 1/2 length, not or scarely clavate. Pistillate scales hyaline with green, 3-veined center when young, usually brownish tinged in age, broadly ovate, subequal to, not concealing perigynia, apex obtuse to acutish. Perigynia appressed-ascending, gray-green, becoming pale-brown in age, obscurely many-veined on both faces, elliptic-ovate, 1.8–2.1 × 1–1.3 mm, widest near middle, membranous; beak short, entire. Achenes yellowish-brown, oblong-obovate, 1.25 × 1 mm, dull to slightly glossy. 2n = 56.


Phenology: Fruiting early summer.
Habitat: Sphagnum bogs, wet, nutrient-poor areas, mostly lowlands
Elevation: 0–200 m

Distribution

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Alta., B.C., Man., N.W.T., Que., Sask., Yukon, Alaska, n Eurasia

Discussion

Carex lapponica is probably an often overlooked species in the flora area.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"shortened" is not a number.No values specified.

... more about "Carex lapponica"
yellowish-brown +
1.25 cm12.5 mm <br />0.0125 m <br /> (?) +
dull +  and slightly glossy +
oblong-obovate +
smaller +
beaked +  and beakless +
papillose +  and smooth +
obtuse;acutish +
Heikki Toivonen +
O. Lang +
truncate +  and rounded +
inconspicuous +
0.01 cm0.1 mm <br />1.0e-4 m <br /> (0.03 cm0.3 mm <br />3.0e-4 m <br />) +
pale green +  and gray-green +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (20 cm200 mm <br />0.2 m <br />) +
papillose +
v--shaped +
subequal +  and or shorter +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
glumaceous +  and foliaceous +
2-ranked +  and arranged +
ascending +  and appressed +
scale-like +  and leaflike +
parallel +  and divergent +
terete +, rolled +  and plicate +
brownish tinged +
subequal +
Carex de Laponie +
round +  and trigonous +
15 cm150 mm <br />0.15 m <br /> (40 cm400 mm <br />0.4 m <br />) +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
Alta. +, B.C. +, Man. +, N.W.T. +, Que. +, Sask. +, Yukon +, Alaska +  and n Eurasia +
0–200 m +
open +, pistillate +  and staminate +
hypogynous +  and subtending +
biconvex +  and trigonous +
Sphagnum bogs, wet, nutrient-poor areas, mostly lowlands +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
sessile +  and pistillate +
multi-ranked +, 2-ranked +, 3-ranked +  and alternate +
basal +  and cauline +
angled;rounded +
with (1-)3-6(-30) bristles and/or scales +
pale-brown +  and gray-green +
0.18 cm1.8 mm <br />0.0018 m <br /> (0.21 cm2.1 mm <br />0.0021 m <br />) +
appressed-ascending +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
Fruiting early summer. +
2-3(-4)-carpellate +
3 (?) +  and 1 (?) +
sheathless +  and bristlelike +
adventitious +
hyaline with green +
basal +  and proximal +
2-keeled +
cylindric +
Illustrated +
gynecandrous +
1 +  and 3 +
septate +, hollow +  and solid +
compressed +, terete +  and trigonous +
papillate +
deciduous +
2-3(-4)-fid +
Carex canescens var. subloliacea +
Carex lapponica +
Carex sect. Glareosae +
species +
plant +  and cespitose +