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<i>Carex feta</i>

Carex feta

Species of grass-like plant

Carex feta, the green-sheathed sedge or greensheath sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cyperaceae, native to southwestern British Columbia in Canada, and Washington, Oregon, and California in the United States.[1][2]

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Description

The green-bladed leaf blade is between 2.5 and 5 millimeters long, with a triangular white patch. The open inflorescence is between 30 and 80 millimeters long, which are white-green to pale gold in color. The fruit is between 3 and 4.2 millimeters in diameter, green to pale gold in color, and either ovate or wide-ovate. The fruiting time is between the months of May and August. It is like Carex fracta, but the spikelets are smaller and more distinct.[3] It is between 50 and 100 centimeters in height. The inflorescence is elongated but with overlapping ovate spikes. The female scales are 2.7 to 3.5 millimeters long, and either straw-colored or brown. The perigynia is ovate or broadly ovate with a white tipped beak.[4] Its chromosome number is n = 33.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    "Carex feta L.H.Bailey". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  2. [2]
    "Carex feta L. H. Bailey". The Calflora Database. Calflora. 2022. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  3. [3]
    "Carex feta". ucjeps.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2023-09-25.
  4. [4]
    "OregonFlora". oregonflora.org. Retrieved 2023-09-26.
  5. [5]
    Rothrock, P. E.; Reznicek, A. A. (1998). "Documented Chromosome Numbers 1998: 1. Chromosome Numbers in Carex Section Ovales (Cyperaceae): Additions, Variations, and Corrections". SIDA, Contributions to Botany. 18 (2): 587–592. JSTOR 41967648.


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