Carex tenuiflora Wahlenb.

Sparseflower sedge (en), Carex tênuiflore (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Cyperaceae > Carex

Characteristics

Rhizome short, with short stolons. Culms loosely tufted, 20-50 cm tall, slender, trigonous, slightly stiff, smooth or subsmooth. Leaves shorter than culm, blades linear, 1-1.5 mm wide, flat or involute, slightly scabrous. Involucral bracts glumelike. Spikes 2-4, gynaecandrous, globose, 3-4 mm, few flowered, disposed in a capitate or spicate inflorescence. Female glumes pale yellow, ovate, 2-2.5 mm, with pale brown midrib, margins hyaline. Utricles yellowish green, subequaling glume, ovate or elliptic, plano-convex, 2-2.5 × ca. 1.1 mm, subleathery, minutely white tuberculate, brown-purple 5-9-veined on both faces, base rounded, nearly estipitate, apex beakless, orifice emarginate. Nutlets tightly enveloped, elliptic or broadly elliptic, biconvex, ca. 1.2 mm, base rounded to cuneate; style base not thickened; stigmas 2. Fl. and fr. Jul. 2n = 58.
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Plants loosely cespitose; rhizomes long, slender. Culms ± erect, weak, 10–50 cm. Leaves: sheaths pale brown abaxially, inner band hyaline, concave at summit; ligules as long as wide; blades pale green, flat or channeled, 5–15 cm × 0.5–2 mm. Inflorescences erect, ovoid or suborbicular, 0.6–1.2 cm × 4–9 mm; proximal bracts scalelike, sometimes bristlelike, shorter than inflorescences. Spikes 2–4, gynecandrous, closely approximate, containing 3–15 perigynia, short-oblong, 4–9 × 3–6 mm. Pistillate scales white-hyaline with green, 3-veined center, ovate, subequal to perigynia, apex obtuse. Perigynia appressed-ascending, gray-green, obscurely few-veined, obovate-elliptic, 3–3.5 × 1.5–1.75 mm, subcoriaceous; beak absent or nearly so. Achenes pale brown, oblong-elliptic, 1.5–2 × 1.25(–1.5) mm, glossy. 2n = 58.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
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Mature height (meter) 0.15 - 0.5
Root system fibrous-root rhizome
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Soil humidity 6-9
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-9

Usage

Uses medicinal
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Images

Carex tenuiflora unspecified picture

Distribution

Carex tenuiflora world distribution map, present in Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Finland, Micronesia (Federated States of), Japan, Montenegro, Malaysia, Norway, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), Russian Federation, Sweden, and United States of America

Conservation status

Carex tenuiflora threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:302587-1
WFO ID wfo-0000351893
COL ID RC89
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Carex arrhyncha Carex leucolepis Carex tenuiflora Vignea tenuiflora Carex tenuiflora var. arrhyncha Carex tenuiflora var. setacea