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2. Carex subsect. Rigidae Fries ex Kükenthal in Engler, Pflanzenr. 38(IV. 20): 299. 1909.

坚挺薹草亚组 jian ting tai cao ya zu

Rhizome short, stoloniferous. Culms rigid. Terminal spike male; lateral spikes female, oblong-ovate or oblong-cylindric, approximate, with short peduncles at base, upper subsessile. Female glumes light black, 1-veined, apex obtuse or acute, without awn. Utricles suborbicular, obovate-orbicular, or oblong, membranous, faintly veined. Stigmas 2.

About 20 species: Asia, North America; 15 species (eight endemic) in China.


1 Lower involucral bracts leaflike   (2)
+ Lower involucral bracts setaceous   (8)
       
2 (1) Upper 1-3 spikes male   (3)
+ Terminal spike male   (4)
       
3 (2) Utricles 4-5 mm, slightly longer than subtending glume; basal sheaths rather long, yellow-brown.   402 C. middendorffii
+ Utricles ca. 3 mm, ca. 1/2 as long as subtending glume; basal sheaths rather short, red-brown or red-purple.   403 C. cryptocarpa
       
4 (2) Utricles shorter than glume   (5)
+ Utricles longer than glume   (6)
       
5 (4) Female glumes oblong or ovate-lanceolate, 3.5-4 mm; utricles oblong, ca. 3 × 1.2 mm.   397 C. zhonghaiensis
+ Female glumes ovate-oblong or elliptic, ca. 2.5 mm; utricles elliptic, 2-2.5 mm.   398 C. minxianica
       
6 (4) Utricles broadly obovate or suborbicular; female glumes 1.5-1.7 mm.   399 C. platysperma
+ Utricles broadly ovate, broadly elliptic, or ovate; female glumes 2-3 mm   (7)
       
7 (6) Utricles broadly ovate or broadly elliptic, 2.5-3 mm; female glumes ca. 2.5 mm, rounded at apex.   400 C. muliensis
+ Utricles ovate, 2.2-2.5 mm; female glumes ca. 2 mm, truncate at mucronate apex.   401 C. kiotensis
       
8 (1) Utricles suborbicular, ovate-orbicular, or obovate-orbicular   (9)
+ Utricles ovate or elliptic   (12)
       
9 (8) Female spikes ovate to oblong, sessile or lower with peduncles 1.5-3 mm   (10)
+ Female spikes cylindric, lower with peduncles 5-20 mm   (11)
       
10 (9) Rhizome with stolons; utricles suborbicular or subglobose, beak very short, orifice entire or emarginate with small teeth.   389 C. orbicularis
+ Rhizome without stolons; utricles broadly ovate or suborbicular, beak short, orifice irregular truncate.   390 C. satakeana
       
11 (9) Female glumes narrowly oblong, purple-brown, margins narrowly white hyaline.   391 C. arcatica
+ Female glumes ovate, blackish purple-red, margins broadly white hyaline.   392 C. borealihinganica
       
12 (8) Culms 5.5-8 cm tall; basal leaves gray-green.   393 C. taldycola
+ Culms 20-60 cm tall; basal leaves green   (13)
       
13 (12) Basal sheaths purple or blackish purple.   394 C. altaica
+ Basal sheaths castaneous-brown   (14)
       
14 (13) Utricles ca. 2.5 mm; nutlets obovate, sessile.   395 C. ensifolia
+ Utricles 4-4.5 mm; nutlets oblong, stipitate.   396 C. shandanica


 

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