Carex sect. Dispermae

Ohwi

Mem. Coll. Sci. Kyoto Imp. Univ., Ser. B, Biol. 11: 237. 1936.

Treatment appears in FNA Volume 23.

Plants loosely cespitose, long-rhizomatous. Culms brown at base. Leaves: basal sheaths fibrous or not; sheath fronts membranous; blades V-shaped in cross-section when young, scabrid. Inflorescences racemose; proximal bracts bristlelike, sheathless; spikes 1–6, androgynous, often with only 1 or 2 staminate flowers, sessile, without prophylls. Proximal pistillate scales with apex acuminate or mucronate. Perigynia spreading, veined on both faces, stipitate, oblongovate, unequally biconvex in cross-section, base rounded, with spongy tissue, margins acutely angled, apex rounded, beaked, glabrous; beak not more than 0.25 mm, with abaxial suture, entire, smooth. Stigmas 2. Achenes biconvex, almost filling bodies of perigynia; style deciduous. x = 35.

Distribution

North America, Eurasia

Discussion

Species 1.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

"shortened" is not a number.

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biconvex +
rounded;mucronate;acuminate +
Heikki Toivonen +
not +  and fibrous +
rounded +
v--shaped +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 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 +
North America +  and Eurasia +
open +, pistillate +  and staminate +
hypogynous +  and subtending +
biconvex +  and trigonous +
multi-ranked +, 2-ranked +, 3-ranked +  and alternate +
basal +  and cauline +
with (1-)3-6(-30) bristles and/or scales +
stipitate +  and veined +
2-3(-4)-carpellate +
3 (?) +  and 1 (?) +
sheathless +  and bristlelike +
Mem. Coll. Sci. Kyoto Imp. Univ., Ser. B, Biol. +
adventitious +
basal +  and proximal +
2-keeled +
cylindric +
1 +  and 3 +
septate +, hollow +  and solid +
compressed +, terete +  and trigonous +
papillate +
deciduous +
2-3(-4)-fid +
Carex sect. Dispermae +
section +
plant +  and cespitose +