Carex wootonii

Mackenzie

Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 65(7): 1. 1915.

Illustrated
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 23. Mentioned on page 341, 345, 359.

Plants densely cespitose. Culms 30–75 cm. Leaves: sheaths adaxially often tinged brown, summits U-shaped; distal ligules 0.5–2 (–3) mm; blades 4–6 per fertile culm, 17–45 cm × 2.5–4.5 mm. Inflorescences open or dense, greenish brown to gold, 2.5–4 cm × 9–20 mm; proximal internode 4–16 mm; 2d internode 2–7.5 mm; proximal bracts leaflike, longer than inflorescences. Spikes 3–8, distant, distinct, fusiform to broadly ovoid or obovoid, 11–21 × 6–9 mm, base acute to attenuate, apex truncate to tapered. Pistillate scales redbrown, red-gold, or gold, with pale-brown or whitish midstripe, lanceolate to broadly ovate, 4.3–6.2 mm, shorter and narrower than perigynia, margin white, (0.1–) 0.2–0.3 (–0.5) mm wide, apex acute to acuminate. Perigynia appressed to ascending, green or gold, usually inconspicuously veined on each face, narrowly ovate to ovate, flat except over achene or ± planoconvex, 5.4–7.2 (–7.5) × 2–2.8 (–3) mm, 0.5–0.6 (–0.7) mm thick, 2.4–2.7 times as long as wide, margin flat, including wing 0.45–0.8 mm wide, ciliate-serrulate at least distally; beak red-gold to redbrown, sometimes white-hyaline at tip, flat, ± ciliate-serrulate, abaxial suture usually inconspicuous, distance from beak tip to achene 2.2–3.6 mm. Achenes oblong to broadly ovate, 1.9–2.7 × 1.4–2 mm, 0.4–0.5 mm thick.


Phenology: Fruiting late summer–fall.
Habitat: Montane meadows, rocky places
Elevation: 2100–3500 m

Discussion

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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... more about "Carex wootonii"
oblong;broadly ovate +
smaller +
0.4mm +  and 0.5mm +
bidentatate +
papillose +
acute;acuminate +
Joy Mastrogiuseppe +, Paul E. Rothrock +, A. C. Dibble +  and A. A. Reznicek +
Mackenzie +
persistent +
acute +  and attenuate +
not enlarged +
ciliate-serrulate +
17 cm170 mm <br />0.17 m <br /> (45 cm450 mm <br />0.45 m <br />) +
4 +  and 6 +
v--shaped +
0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br /> (0.45 cm4.5 mm <br />0.0045 m <br />) +
glumaceous +  and foliaceous +
2-ranked +  and arranged +
ascending +  and appressed +
scale-like +  and leaflike +
parallel +  and divergent +
terete +, rolled +  and plicate +
round +  and trigonous +
30 cm300 mm <br />0.3 m <br /> (75 cm750 mm <br />0.75 m <br />) +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
Ariz. +, N.Mex. +  and Mexico +
2100–3500 m +
open +, pistillate +  and staminate +
hypogynous +  and subtending +
biconvex +  and trigonous +
Montane meadows, rocky places +
greenish brown +  and gold +
2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.75 cm7.5 mm <br />0.0075 m <br />) +
not prophyllate +, sessile +  and pistillate +
multi-ranked +, 2-ranked +, 3-ranked +  and alternate +
basal +  and cauline +
0.5mm +  and 0.6mm +
0.06 cm0.6 mm <br />6.0e-4 m <br /> (0.07 cm0.7 mm <br />7.0e-4 m <br />) +
planoconvex;planoconvex;planoconvex +
thick +, 0.2mm +  and 0.3mm +
whitish +  and pale-brown +
with (1-)3-6(-30) bristles and/or scales +
gold +  and green +
appressed +  and ascending +
0.045 cm0.45 mm <br />4.5e-4 m <br /> (0.08 cm0.8 mm <br />8.0e-4 m <br />) +
Fruiting late summer–fall. +
2-3(-4)-carpellate +
3 (?) +  and 1 (?) +
sheathless +  and bristlelike +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (1.6 cm16 mm <br />0.016 m <br />) +
Smithsonian Misc. Collect. +
adventitious +
gold +, red-gold +  and redbrown +
basal +  and proximal +
lanceolate;broadly ovate +
0.43 cm4.3 mm <br />0.0043 m <br /> (0.62 cm6.2 mm <br />0.0062 m <br />) +
herbaceous +  and membranous +
not differentiated +
cylindric +
Illustrated +
distinct +
1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br /> (2.1 cm21 mm <br />0.021 m <br />) +
fusiform;broadly ovoid or obovoid +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br />) +
1 +  and 3 +
septate +, hollow +  and solid +
compressed +, terete +  and trigonous +
papillate +
deciduous +  and persistent +
2-3(-4)-fid +
u--shaped +
Carex wootonii +
Carex sect. Ovales +
species +
plant +  and cespitose +