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Carex atrata

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Carex atrata

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Also known as black-spike sedge

species of plant

Species

クロボスゲ(Kurobo-suge)

SPECIES

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassLiliopsida
  4. OrderPoales
  5. FamilyCyperaceae
Native toAlbania, Austria, China South-Central, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, East Himalaya, Finland, France, Føroyar, Germany, Great Britain, Greece
Observations recorded27,597

Plants loosely cespitose. Culms (10–)30–40(–60) cm, smooth. Leaves 3–5 mm wide. Inflorescences: proximal bracts shorter than or exceeding inflorescences; spikes overlapping, erect or proximal spikes sometimes spreading, distinct, contiguous, short-pendunculate, short-oblong or elongate, 10–25 × 6–10 mm; lateral 2–4(–6) spikes pistillate, pedunculate, of similar length; terminal spike gynecandrous. Pistillate scales dark brown or black to margins, lanceolate, longer than and as broad as perigynia, midvein same color as body, inconspicuous or lighter in color and conspicuous, acute. Perigynia ascending, golden or dark brown, veinless, ovate, 3–4 × 1.5–1.75 mm, apex abruptly beaked, distally papillose; beak 04–0.5 mm, bidentate, smooth. Achenes filling proximal 1/2 or less of perigynia. 2n = 54.

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
5,770
With media
4,255
Family
Cyperaceae
Collections
UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS, CAS, RSA, TROM, NY
Recorded in
Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, Russia, France, China, United States

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taxon common name
黑穗薹草
short name
C. atrata
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