Carex lambertiana Boott
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Carex lambertiana Boott (1853)
Carex lambertiana Boott
Nomenclature
Boott
Boott
1853
ICN
Carex lambertiana Boott
species
Carex lambertiana
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Carex lambertiana Boott
Bright green, robust, leafy tufts to 1 m high. Female spikes c. 5, erect on short peduncles, ± 5 cm × 5 mm, dark red-brown. Glumes all deeply emarginate. Utricles obovoid. Stigmas 3.
Carex lambertiana Boott
Tufts robust, lfy, 60–100 cm. tall. Culms 1–2 mm. diam., trigonous, smooth; basal sheaths dark grey-brown or purple-black. Lvs ± = culms, 3–6 mm. wide, double-folded, bright green or yellow-green, margins finely scabrid. Spikes 5–8; terminal 1–(3) spikes male; remaining spikes female, often male at the base, 1.5–5 cm. × 5–7 mm., cylindrical, uppermost spikes approximate and sessile, lower spikes more distant, erect, on short, stiff peduncles. Glumes (excluding awn) ± = utricles, ovate, pinkish brown to chestnut-brown, membr., hyaline margins often very broad, tip deeply emarginate, the light green or brown midrib produced to a scabrid awn. Utricles 2.5–3.5 × c. 1.5 mm., biconvex, obovoid, turgid, us. brown throughout with distinct, paler brown nerves, shining; beak slightly < 1 mm. long, bifid, with very divergent crura, margins and orifice scabrid. Stigmas 3. Nut c. 1.5 mm. long, trigonous, light to dark brown, surface minutely pitted.
Taxonomic concepts
Carex dissita var. lambertiana (Boott) Cheeseman
Carex lambertiana Boott
Carex lambertiana Boott
Carex lambertiana Boott
Carex lambertiana Boott
Carex lambertiana Boott
Carex lambertiana Boott
Carex lambertiana Boott
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ffaa6204-4154-488c-8db5-99a981041f92
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1 January 2000