Carex litorosa L.H.Bailey
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Carex litorosa L.H.Bailey (1889)
Carex litorosa L.H.Bailey
Nomenclature
L.H.Bailey
L.H.Bailey
1889
ICN
Carex litorosa L.H.Bailey
species
Carex litorosa
Classification
Vernacular names
Descriptions
Carex litorosa L.H.Bailey
2n = 48
Carex litorosa L.H.Bailey
Pale green, occasionally reddish, dense tufts to ± 70 cm high. Leaves plano-convex. Female spikes 2-4, usually approximate and sessile, 1-2 cm long, ovate, erect, light brown. Utricles usually nerveless; beak wide; with very wide orifice. Stigmas 3.
Carex litorosa L.H.Bailey
Densely tufted, pale green, sts reddish. Culms 9–65–(80) cm. × c. 1 mm., erect, terete, often slightly compressed, glab.; basal sheaths grey-brown, rarely reddish black. Lvs = or > culms, 1–1.5 mm. wide, narrow-linear, plano-convex, gradually tapering, with margins slightly serrated towards the subobtuse tip; sheath c. twice width of lamina, dull brown. Infl. of 3–5 light brown, erect spikes; terminal spike male, very pale brown and slender; remaining spikes female, with a few male fls at the tip and base, 1–2 cm. long, ovate, ± approximate or the lowest often more distant, sessile or very shortly pedunculate. Glumes ± = or slightly < utricles, ovate-lanceolate, acute to cuspidate, membr., chestnut-brown with paler brown midrib and margins. Utricles c. 3 × 1.5 mm., unequally biconvex, turgid, ovate-lanceolate, surface smooth or slightly nerved, brownish, slightly tapering to a wide beak c. 1 mm. long, margins glab., orifice broad, shallowly bidentate, very slightly scabrid; stipe minute. Stigmas 3. Nut c. 2 mm. long, trigonous, obovoid.
Taxonomic concepts
Carex australis sensu Kirk
Carex litorosa L.H.Bailey
Carex litorosa L.H.Bailey
Carex litorosa L.H.Bailey
Carex litorosa L.H.Bailey
Carex litorosa L.H.Bailey
Carex litorosa L.H.Bailey
Carex litorosa L.H.Bailey
Carex littoralis sensu Petrie
Carex litorosa L.H.Bailey
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Metadata
4345f133-bf47-4bd5-be30-58248247853e
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000