Carex simulata

Mackenzie

Bull. Torrey. Bot. Club 34: 604. 1908.

IllustratedEndemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 23. Treatment on page 305. Mentioned on page 303, 304.
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Rhizomes coarse, 1.5–2.8 mm thick, typically with long, unbranched segments from which shoots arise singly every few nodes. Culms sharply trigonous, (10–) 20–80 cm, scabrous-angled distally. Leaves: basal sheaths dark-brown; sheaths with hyaline inner band, apex prolonged 0.3–1.6 mm beyond base of blade, glabrous; ligules 0.6–2.7 mm; blades 1–3.7 mm wide. Inflorescences dense to elongate, 1–3 cm; spikes 4–12 (–18), usually unisexual; staminate spikes lanceoloid; pistillate spikes ovoid. Pistillate scales reddish-brown to dark-brown, with narrow hyaline margins, ovate, apex acute to acuminate-awned, shiny. Anthers 1.8–3.1 mm, apiculus smooth to warty (30X). Perigynia dark reddish-brown, essentially veinless, stipitate, broadly ovate to rhombic-orbicular, thickly planoconvex, 1.8–2.8 × 1.1–1.7 mm, shiny; beak 0.25–0.5 mm, hyaline, oblique or obscurely bidentulate.


Phenology: Fruiting Jun–Aug.
Habitat: Wet meadows, marshes, seeps, fens, bogs, stream banks, lakeshores, ditches, tolerant of alkaline soils
Elevation: 600–3100 m

Distribution

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Alta., Sask., Ariz., Calif., Colo., Idaho, Mont., N.Mex., Oreg., Utah, Wash., Wyo.

Discussion

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"shortened" is not a number.

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biconvex +
smaller +
0.18 cm1.8 mm <br />0.0018 m <br /> (0.31 cm3.1 mm <br />0.0031 m <br />) +
prolonged +
acute;acuminate-awned +
0.03 cm0.3 mm <br />3.0e-4 m <br /> (0.16 cm1.6 mm <br />0.0016 m <br />) +
A. A. Reznicek +  and Paul M. Catling +
Mackenzie +
not +  and fibrous +
rounded +
bidentulate +
0.025 cm0.25 mm <br />2.5e-4 m <br /> (0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br />) +
v--shaped +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.37 cm3.7 mm <br />0.0037 m <br />) +
glumaceous +  and foliaceous +
2-ranked +  and arranged +
ascending +  and appressed +
scale-like +  and leaflike +
parallel +  and divergent +
terete +, rolled +  and plicate +
not wide +
scabrous-angled +  and trigonous +
20 cm200 mm <br />0.2 m <br /> (80 cm800 mm <br />0.8 m <br />) +
Alta. +, Sask. +, Ariz. +, Calif. +, Colo. +, Idaho +, Mont. +, N.Mex. +, Oreg. +, Utah +, Wash. +  and Wyo. +
600–3100 m +
stipitate +, veinless +  and veined +
ovate;narrowly ovate planoconvex or biconvex +
open +, pistillate +  and staminate +
hypogynous +  and subtending +
biconvex +  and trigonous +
Wet meadows, marshes, seeps, fens, bogs, stream banks, lakeshores, ditches, tolerant of alkaline soils +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
multi-ranked +, 2-ranked +, 3-ranked +  and alternate +
basal +  and cauline +
0.06 cm0.6 mm <br />6.0e-4 m <br /> (0.27 cm2.7 mm <br />0.0027 m <br />) +
with (1-)3-6(-30) bristles and/or scales +
stipitate +  and veinless +
dark reddish-brown +
0.18 cm1.8 mm <br />0.0018 m <br /> (0.28 cm2.8 mm <br />0.0028 m <br />) +
ascending +  and erect +
0.11 cm1.1 mm <br />0.0011 m <br /> (0.17 cm1.7 mm <br />0.0017 m <br />) +
Fruiting Jun–Aug. +
2-3(-4)-carpellate +
3 (?) +  and 1 (?) +
cuspidate;scale-like +
short-awned +  and cuspidate +
Bull. Torrey. Bot. Club +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.28 cm2.8 mm <br />0.0028 m <br />) +
adventitious +
reddish-brown +  and dark-brown +
basal +  and proximal +
cylindric +
Illustrated +  and Endemic +
pistillate +  and staminate +
ovoid;lanceoloid +
1 +  and 3 +
septate +, hollow +  and solid +
compressed +, terete +  and trigonous +
papillate +
deciduous +
2-3(-4)-fid +
Carex simulata +
Carex sect. Divisae +
species +
plant +, colonial +  and not cespitose +