Carex digitalis var. macropoda
Rhodora 40: 400, plate 511, figs. 3, 4. 1938.
IllustratedEndemic
Widest leaf 2–2.9 (–3.5) mm wide. Inflorescence: longest peduncle of staminate spike (6.3–) 8.1–15.9 cm; terminal spike usually surpassing bract blade of distal lateral spike. Perigynia 7–10-veined, 2–3.4 mm, apex barely excurved.
Phenology: Fruiting spring.
Habitat: Mesic to dry-mesic, deciduous or mixed deciduous-evergreen forests, mixed soils
Elevation: 0–400 m
Distribution
Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Ky., La., Md., Miss., Mo., N.C., Pa., S.C., Tenn., Tex., Va.
Discussion
Selected References
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Lower Taxa
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obovoid +
smaller +
1mm;1.6mm +
more prominent +
basifixed +
glabrous +
excurved +
light-brown;white +
not fibrous +
truncate +
tapering +
tapering +
green +
shorter +
0.5-1.3(-1.8) times as tall as tallest flowering culm +
absent +
m--shaped +
leaflike +
1;many +
2;3 +
bladeless +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (?) +
0.5mm;1mm +
basal +
abundant +
staminate +
unisexual +
Present +
racemose +
pseudoumbel +
modified +
more prominent +
basal +
glabrous +
absent +
fused +
green +
distinct +
arranged +
falling +
absent +
with (1-)3-6(-30) bristles and/or scales +
thin +
7-10-veined +
maturity +
ascending +
fitting +
2-3(-4)-carpellate +
fused +
pistillate +
subtending +
long-sheathing +
pistillate +
short to long +
Rhodora +
1938 +
arranged +
adventitious +
fibrous +
1;0;1 +
fertile +
oblong;keeled +
membranous +
cylindric +
vegetative +
staminate +
scattered +
basal +
1;4 +
linear;linear-clavate +
1-flowered +
distinct +
papillate +
undivided +
deciduous +
ascending +
2-3(-4)-fid +
slender +
Carex digitalis var. macropoda +
Carex digitalis +
variety +
staminate +
free +
thin +
short-rhizomatous +
perennial +