Carex multicaulis
Bot. Gaz. 9: 118. 1884.
IllustratedEndemic
Plants cespitose, not rhizomatous. Culms 14–50 cm, terete, smooth distally. Leaves involute, 0.8–1.5 mm wide, usually shorter than culms. Spike with staminate portion separated from pistillate portion by short internode or sessile, 8–25 × 1.4–2.2 mm. Pistillate scales pale-brown to green, proximal ones bractlike and long-awned. Staminate scales pale-brown, apex obtuse. Anthers 1.2–5.2 mm. Perigynia (1–) 2–6 (–8), pale green to pale-brown, faintly several-veined, 4.7–7.2 × 2.3–3.1 mm.
Phenology: Fruiting mid May–late Jul.
Habitat: Dry slopes and seasonally wet seepage areas in chaparral and open pine forests
Elevation: 100–2200 m
Discussion
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trigonous +
4mm;5mm +
basifixed +
long-awned +
glabrous +
obtuse +
fibrous +
tapering +
truncate +
absent +
v--shaped +
leaflike +
1;many +
2;3 +
glabrous +
terete +
basal +
abundant +
single +
unisexual +
Present +
bractless +
pseudoumbel +
modified +
usually shorter +
involute +
absent +
fused +
strong +
distinct +
arranged +
falling +
absent +
with (1-)3-6(-30) bristles and/or scales +
thin +
several-veined +
ascending +
2-3(-4)-carpellate +
fused +
separated +
pistillate +
subtending +
long-awned +
bractlike +
Bot. Gaz. +
1884 +
arranged +
adventitious +
fibrous +
1;0;1 +
fertile +
2-keeled +
membranous +
cylindric +
sessile +
arranged +
single +
androgynous +
1-flowered +
distinct +
papillate +
undivided +
deciduous +
2-3(-4)-fid +
Carex multicaulis +
Carex sect. Firmiculmes +
species +
free +
thin +
spongy +
not rhizomatous +
perennial +
short to long +