Carex latebracteata

Waterfall

Rhodora 56: 23. 1954.

Treatment appears in FNA Volume 23. Treatment on page 563. Mentioned on page 558, 560.

Culms 17–31 cm. Leaves: basal sheaths pale-brown to orangebrown; blades pale green, conspicuously glaucous, widest leaves (4.1–) 6–15 mm wide, equaling stems, coriaceous, margins hyaline, white, scabrous. Terminal spikes with staminate portion 2–5-flowered, 3.2–4 × 1.1–2.8 mm; pistillate portion 3–14-flowered. Lateral spikes 0. Pistillate scales green; proximal scales with apex acuminate; distal scales ovate, apex obtuse. Staminate scales green, ovate, 2.5–3.4 × 0.9–1.5 mm, margins connate at base, enfolding scales above, hyaline, white, apex obtuse. Anthers 1.6–2.2 mm. Perigynia tightly enveloping achenes, pale green, ellipsoid, 6.7–7.9 × 2–2.7 mm, apex abruptly contracted into beak; beak 2.7–4 mm, smooth. Achenes brown, obovoid to obpyriform, 2.8–3 × 2–2.5 mm. Stigmas clavate, convolute, minutely papillose. 2n = 98.


Phenology: Fruiting spring (late Apr–late May).
Habitat: Steep, shaded slopes in rich, mesic to dry-mesic hardwood forests

Discussion

Carex latebracteata is endemic to the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

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pale-brown;orangebrown +
tapering +
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0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
smaller +
glumaceous +  and foliaceous +
2-ranked +  and arranged +
ascending +  and appressed +
scale-like +  and leaflike +
parallel +  and divergent +
terete +, rolled +  and plicate +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (?) +
round +  and trigonous +
17 cm170 mm <br />0.17 m <br /> (31 cm310 mm <br />0.31 m <br />) +
Ark. +  and Okla. +
white +  and hyaline +
open +, pistillate +  and staminate +
hypogynous +  and subtending +
biconvex +  and trigonous +
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septate-nodulose +
multi-ranked +, 2-ranked +, 3-ranked +  and alternate +
basal +  and cauline +
stipitate +  and 2-veined +
white +  and hyaline +
lanceolate;oblong-lanceolate rounded-trigonous +
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0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.27 cm2.7 mm <br />0.0027 m <br />) +
Fruiting spring (late Apr–late May). +
2-3(-4)-carpellate +
3-14-flowered +, pistillate +, 2-5-flowered +  and staminate +
3 (?) +  and 1 (?) +
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