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Rough Sedge

Carex muricata L.

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Foodplant / saprobe
scattered, subepidermal, fuscous pycnidium of Stagonospora coelomycetous anamorph of Stagonospora caricis is saprobic on dead leaf of Carex muricata agg.
Remarks: season: 1-12

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Carex muricata L. Sp. PI. 974. 1753
Carex echinata Murr Prodr. Siirp. Gotting. 76. 1770. (Type from Germany.)
Carex Leersii Willd. PI. Berol. 28. 17S7. (Based <>n "C. muricata 1." of Leers. I
Carex vulpina var. ,i Lam. Encyc. 3: 383. 1791. (Type from Europe.)
Carex stellulata Gooden Trans I, inn Soc. 2: 144. 1794. (Type from Kngland.)
Carex stellulata var masculine S. P. Gray, N'al. Arr. Hrit. PI. 2: 50. 1821. (Type from England.)
Carex hydrophila Dumorf PI Belg. 146 1827. (Type from Belgium
Yignea stellulata Rei< hciil. in Mossier. Ilandh. cd. 2. 1610. 1829. (Based on Carex Stellulata
Gooden Vignea hydrophila Reichenb. PI, Germ. Exc. 140'. 1832. (Based on Carex hydrophila Dumort.) Carex stellulata var. pseudodivulsa P. Schultz, IT. I'falz 499. 1846. (Type from Germany.) Carex pseudodivulsa P. Schultz, PI. Pfalz 499, as synonym. 1846. (Synonym 1 of preceding.) Carex leptophylla HeufTcl. Linnaea 31: 728. pi. 5. f. '. 1862 I Identified with C. stellulata Gooden.) Carex echinata var / I Schultz, PoUichia 20/21: 259. 1863. (Based On C. stellulata
var pteudodivulsa P, Schultz.) tchinata X tan-mi-. Brugger, Jalinsb. Nat. Ges Graubund. 23 24:119. 1881, (Typefrom
Germ Carts Cofiischii Brugger. Jahrtab. Nat. Ges. Graubund. 23 24:11!
Carex stellulata var oligatUha Callinc, DeutS. Hot Monatl 6: W I pe ti .,iii Sue. I. a
Caricina stellulata St. -Lag. in Cariot, Kind. PI ed on Carts stellulata
Gooden Carex tt e U u lala iar hylogUon Aach. fit Graebn Syn. Mitteleui PI, 2': 56. 1902. (Type from
mia Carex -.tetlulata t h th in Engler, Pflanzenreicfa 4 : 230 1909 Ba*
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Carex -.trllulata f pieudoditml a Kukenth. in Engler, Pflanzenreicfa 4": .' 10 I on I .
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drofhila Kukenth. in Engler, Pflanzenreicfa 4 : 230 1909 Baaed on C.
hydrophila Dumofl
leUutaial Mganlha KOkenth in Engler, Pflanzenreich 4*: 230 1909 Based on l lulata var oligantha Calhl
ito e, the root to. i. not at all prolong) d, the culm ilendet bul wiry, usually : dm high, long than tbi lean ,,[i thi head, rathe
bluntly triangular, apbytlopodic, light brownisfa ai i, a . an. i clothed with the dried up of th> previou •• ur, tin lower bladeli itfa well-developed bladet u ually I S to a fertile culm, on the lower third, but not bunched, the sheaths usually overlapping, tight, slightly thickened at mouth, the blades flat or somewhat canaliculate, thickish, rather lightgreen, ascending, usually 1-2.5 dm. long, 1-2 mm. wide, roughened towards the apex, the sheaths tight, hyaline ventrally, concave and slightly thickened at mouth, the ligule short; spikes usually 2 or 3, approximate or more or less separate, forming a head 1-3.5 cm. long, 4-6 mm. wide, the lateral spikes suborbicular, 3-5 mm. wide, mostly pistillate, the 3-10 perigynia widely spreading, the terminal spike similar, but with long-clavate basal staminate portion 2-5 mm. long; lower bract often cuspidate-prolonged, the upper scale-like; scales ovate, obtusish, chestnut-brown with lighter 3-nerved green center and shining white-hyaline margins, not sharply keeled, the midvein obsolete at apex, nearly as wide as but much shorter than bodies of perigynia; perigynia plano-convex, ovate, 2.5-3 mm. long, 1.2-1.8 mm. wide, green or at maturity yellowish-brown, thick, subcoriaceous, sharp-edged to base, the margins serrulate at base of beak only, scarcely raised, severalto many-nerved dorsally, nerveless or nearly so ventrally, the lower part spongy, round-truncate at base, abruptly contracted at apex into a chestnut-tinged beak one third the length of the body, its margins serrulate, the dorsal suture and ventral false suture chestnut-brown-tinged, conspicuous, bidentate, the teeth short, triangular; achenes lenticular, broadly ovate, substipitate. slightly apiculate, yellow, 1.5 mm. long, 1 mm. wide; style slender, slightly enlarged at base, jointed with achene, at length deciduous; stigmas two, chestnut-brown, slender, short.
Type locality: "Habitat in Europae nemoribus humentibus" (or, as given in Flora Suecica, "Habitat in udis nemorosis umbrosis praesertim Nordlandiae").
Distribution: Swampy soil in calcareous districts, Greenland to Newfoundland, Quebec, and southern Alaska; widely distributed in northern Eurasia. (Specimens examined from Labrador, Newfoundland, Quebec (Mingan Islands), Alaska, Alberta.)
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Kenneth Kent Mackenzie. 1931. (POALES); CYPERACEAE; CARICEAE. North American flora. vol 18(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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Carex muricata

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Carex muricata, the rough sedge or prickly sedge (a name it shares with other species), is a species of Carex found in Europe and western Asia as far as the Himalayas. It has been introduced elsewhere. Poorly studied, Carex muricata is considered a species aggregate.[3] The aggregate has been subject to a great deal of taxonomic confusion over the years and has yet to be fully resolved.[4]

References

  1. ^ Sp. Pl. 2: 974 (1753)
  2. ^ "Carex muricata L." The Plant List. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  3. ^ David, R. W. (1976). "Nomenclature of the British taxa of the Carex muricata L. aggregate". Watsonia. 11: 59–65.
  4. ^ Molina, Ana; Acedo, Carmen; Llamas, Félix (21 February 2008). "Taxonomy and new taxa of the Carex divulsa aggregate in Eurasia (section Phaestoglochin, Cyperaceae)". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 156 (3): 385–409. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2007.00760.x.
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Carex muricata: Brief Summary

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Carex muricata, the rough sedge or prickly sedge (a name it shares with other species), is a species of Carex found in Europe and western Asia as far as the Himalayas. It has been introduced elsewhere. Poorly studied, Carex muricata is considered a species aggregate. The aggregate has been subject to a great deal of taxonomic confusion over the years and has yet to be fully resolved.

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