Carex fascicularis Boott
Details
Carex fascicularis Boott (1853)
Carex fascicularis Boott
Nomenclature
Boott
Boott
1853
ICN
Carex fascicularis Boott
species
Carex fascicularis
Classification
Subordinates
Synonyms
Descriptions
Carex fascicularis Boott
Large pale green soft tufts to 1.2 m high. Leaves prominently septate-nodulose at base and on grey sheaths. Female spikes c. 5, ± distant, pedunculate, 5-7 × 1 cm, light greenish-brown. Glumes much < long-beaked glabrous utricles. Stigmas 3.
Carex fascicularis Boott
Tufts large, soft, pale green. Culms 60–110 cm. × 1.5–2.5 mm., triquetrous, very finely scabrid; basal sheaths grey. Lvs rather > culms, (4)–6–13 mm. wide, double-folded, with prominent cross-veinlets on lamina and sheath. Spikes 4–6; uppermost 1–(2) spikes male; remaining spikes female, (2)–5–7 cm. × 8–11 mm., us. slightly < male spikes, ± distant, pedunculate, pend. Glumes (excluding awn) c. ½ length of utricle, lanceolate, light brown, margins of upper half fimbriate or lacerate, midrib produced to a scabrid awn c. = glume in length. Utricles (4)–5–5.5–(6) × 1–1.5 mm., subtrigonous or inflated and biconvex, ovoid, distinctly nerved, light green, strongly reflexed; beak 1.5–2 mm. long, entirely glab.; stipe c. 1 mm. long, abruptly narrowed. Stigmas 3. Nut 1.5–2 mm. long, trigonous with thickened angles, obovoid, pale yellow-brown.
Taxonomic concepts
Carex fascicularis Boott
Carex fascicularis Boott
Carex fascicularis Boott
Carex fascicularis Boott
Carex fascicularis Boott
Carex fascicularis Boott
Carex forsteri var. fascicularis (Boott) Hook.f.
Carex fascicularis Boott
Carex pseudocyperus var. fascicularis (Boott) Boott
Carex fascicularis Boott
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Metadata
2cc2847b-fa53-47c1-bf6f-42db1996f513
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
20 April 2009