Carex salina

Wahlenberg

Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Nya Handl. 24: 165. 1803.

Common names: Carex salin
Illustrated
Synonyms: Carex lanceata Dewey Carex salina var. lanceata (Dewey) Kükenthal
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 23. Treatment on page 382. Mentioned on page 380, 383, 385, 394.

Plants not cespitose. Culms obtusely angled, 6–35 cm, glabrous. Leaves: basal sheaths brown; sheaths of proximal leaves glabrous, fronts lacking spots and veins, apex U-shaped; blades amphistomic, 2–3 mm wide, papillose on both surfaces. Proximal bract longer than inflorescence, 1.5–4 mm wide. Spikes erect; staminate 1–2; pistillate 2–4; proximal pistillate spike 1–3.1 cm × 2–5 mm, base cuneate. Pistillate scales brown, 2.5–8 × 1–1.7 mm (including awn), wider than perigynia, midvein reaching apex, 1/3–1/2 the width of scale, apex acute or acuminate, often aristate, awn glabrous or scabrous. Perigynia ascending, pale-brown, incompletely 0–3-veined on each face, somewhat inflated, loosely enclosing achenes, ellipsoid, (2–) 2.5–3.3 × 1.2–1.9 mm, dull, base with stipe to 0.2 mm, apex acute, short-papillose; beak cylindric to conic, 0.2–0.4 × 0.3–0.4 mm. Achenes deeply constricted on 1 face, apex truncate to retuse, glossy; style base bent, rarely straight. 2n = 77, 78, 79.


Phenology: Fruiting Jul–Sep.
Habitat: Saline or brackish shores
Elevation: 0–10 m

Distribution

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N.B., Nfld. and Labr., Ont., Que., Eurasia

Discussion

Carex salina is considered to be a stabilized hybrid between C. paleacea and C. subspathacea or a backcross with either of the parents (J. Cayouette and P. Morisset 1985, 1986; L. A. Standley 1990) and does not occur outside of the sympatric range of the parental species.

Reports of the species from Greenland are based on plants of Carex subspathacea or hybrids of C. nigra with C. subspathacea or C. lyngbyei. Previous records from northern Northwest Territories and northern Manitoba are based on plants of C. aquatilis, C. subspathacea, or their hybrid, and records from Alaska are based on either C. ramenskii or C. subspathacea. Backcrosses of C. salina with its parents occur: C. paleacea × C. salina; C. salina × C. aquatilis subsp. minor (= C. ×stansalina E. Lepage); C. salina × C. subspathacea.

Other verified and accepted hybrids are: Carex ×subsalina E. Lepage (= C. salina × C. aquatilis), C. neorigida E. Lepage (= C. salina × C. bigelowii), C. ×spiculosa Fries (= C. salina × C. bigelowii), C. ×mendica E. Lepage (= C. salina × C. recta), and C. ×stansalina E. Lepage (= C. salina × C. aquatilis).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

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... more about "Carex salina"
79 +, 78 +  and 77 +
biconvex +
constricted +
short-papillose +
truncate;retuse +
acuminate;acute +
Lisa A. Standley +, Jacques Cayouette +  and Leo Bruederle +
Wahlenberg +
scabrous +  and glabrous +
not +  and fibrous +
cuneate +
bidentate +  and emarginate +
cylindric +  and conic +
0.03 cm0.3 mm <br />3.0e-4 m <br /> (0.04 cm0.4 mm <br />4.0e-4 m <br />) +
papillose +
m--shaped +  and v--shaped +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
glumaceous +  and foliaceous +
2-ranked +  and arranged +
ascending +  and appressed +
scale-like +  and leaflike +
parallel +  and divergent +
terete +, rolled +  and plicate +
Carex salin +
redbrown +  and brown +
6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br /> (35 cm350 mm <br />0.35 m <br />) +
prophyllate +, subsessile +, pedunculate +  and staminate +
N.B. +, Nfld. and Labr. +, Ont. +, Que. +  and Eurasia +
0–10 m +
open +, pistillate +  and staminate +
hypogynous +  and subtending +
biconvex +  and trigonous +
Saline or brackish shores +
multi-ranked +, 2-ranked +, 3-ranked +  and alternate +
basal +  and cauline +
with (1-)3-6(-30) bristles and/or scales +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br />) +
0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br /> (0.33 cm3.3 mm <br />0.0033 m <br />) +
0.12 cm1.2 mm <br />0.0012 m <br /> (0.19 cm1.9 mm <br />0.0019 m <br />) +
Fruiting Jul–Sep. +
2-3(-4)-carpellate +
3 (?) +  and 1 (?) +
short-sheathing +, sheathless +  and leaflike +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Nya Handl. +
adventitious +
basal +  and proximal +
2-keeled +
ladder-fibrillose +  and veined +
cylindric +
Illustrated +
pistillate +  and staminate +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (3.1 cm31 mm <br />0.031 m <br />) +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
1 +  and 3 +
septate +, hollow +  and solid +
compressed +, terete +  and trigonous +
papillate +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (?) +  and 0.02 cm0.2 mm <br />2.0e-4 m <br /> (?) +
deciduous +
2-3(-4)-fid +
Carex lanceata +  and Carex salina var. lanceata +
Carex salina +
Carex sect. Phacocystis +
species +
, +  and staminate +
plant +  and not cespitose +