Carex conjuncta

Boott

Ill. Carex, 122, plate 392. 1862.

IllustratedEndemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 23. Treatment on page 276. Mentioned on page 273, 274, 275.

Plants with basal sheaths of previous year persistent as linear fibers. Culms to 80 cm × 3.5 mm, scabrous abaxially. Leaves: sheaths all with blades, fronts rugose, redbrown spotted, veinless, apex hyaline, colorless, fragile, convex, entire; ligules rounded, 7 mm, free limb to 0.5 mm; blades not epistomic, to 75 cm × 8 mm. Inflorescences densely spicate, cylindric, elongate, with 8–12 branches, 3–7 × 2 cm; proximal internode to 15 mm. Scales hyaline. Perigynia green with green veins, 3–5-veined abaxially, veinless adaxially, to 4.5 × 2 mm, base spongy on both sides, not distended proximally, rounded; stipe to 0.3 mm; beak to 1.8 mm, serrulate. Achenes ovate, 2.2 × 1.4 mm; stalk to 0.2 mm; persistent style base cylindric.


Phenology: Fruiting Jun.
Habitat: Seasonally saturated soils in wet meadows, openings in alluvial woods, upper borders of tidal marshes, stream banks
Elevation: 0–1500 m

Distribution

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Ala., Ark., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kans., Md., Mich., Mo., Nebr., N.J., N.Y., Ohio, Tenn., Va., W.Va.

Discussion

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"shortened" is not a number.

... more about "Carex conjuncta"
2.2 cm22 mm <br />0.022 m <br /> (?) +
smaller +
colorless +  and hyaline +
Lisa A. Standley +
smooth +  and rugose +
membranous +
not +  and fibrous +
rounded +  and distended +
Vulpinae +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.18 cm1.8 mm <br />0.0018 m <br />) +
not epistomic +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (75 cm750 mm <br />0.75 m <br />) +
v--shaped +
8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br /> (?) +
glumaceous +  and foliaceous +
2-ranked +  and arranged +
ascending +  and appressed +
scale-like +  and leaflike +
parallel +  and divergent +
terete +, rolled +  and plicate +
dark-brown +  and black +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (80 cm800 mm <br />0.8 m <br />) +
round +  and trigonous +
Ala. +, Ark. +, Ill. +, Ind. +, Iowa +, Kans. +, Md. +, Mich. +, Mo. +, Nebr. +, N.J. +, N.Y. +, Ohio +, Tenn. +, Va. +  and W.Va. +
0–1500 m +
open +, pistillate +  and staminate +
hypogynous +  and subtending +
redbrown spotted +
biconvex +  and trigonous +
Seasonally saturated soils in wet meadows, openings in alluvial woods, upper borders of tidal marshes, stream banks +
paniculate +  and racemose +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (7 cm70 mm <br />0.07 m <br />) +
elongate +  and cylindric +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (?) +
prophyllate +, sessile +  and pistillate +
multi-ranked +, 2-ranked +, 3-ranked +  and alternate +
basal +  and cauline +
7 cm70 mm <br />0.07 m <br /> (?) +
with (1-)3-6(-30) bristles and/or scales +
veinless +  and 3-5-veined +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.45 cm4.5 mm <br />0.0045 m <br />) +
ascending +  and spreading +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
Fruiting Jun. +
2-3(-4)-carpellate +
3 (?) +  and 1 (?) +
scale-like;filiform +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
Ill. Carex, +
adventitious +
basal +  and proximal +
2-keeled +
cylindric +
Illustrated +  and Endemic +
1 +  and 3 +
septate +, hollow +  and solid +
compressed +, terete +  and trigonous +
papillate +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (?) +  and 0.03 cm0.3 mm <br />3.0e-4 m <br /> (?) +
deciduous +
2-3(-4)-fid +
Carex conjuncta +
Carex sect. Vulpinae +
species +