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Carex Microptera
''Carex microptera'' is a species of sedge known by the common name smallwing sedge. It is native to western North America, including most all of western Canada and the western United States. It occurs in moist mountain habitat such as meadows and riverbanks. This sedge produces dense clumps of erect stems over 20 centimeters tall and up to about a meter in height. The inflorescence In botany, an inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a plant's Plant stem, stem that is composed of a main branch or a system of branches. An inflorescence is categorized on the basis of the arrangement of flowers on a mai ... is a dense cluster of green or brown spikes packed tightly and indistinct from each other. External linksJepson Manual Treatment [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Kent Mackenzie
Kenneth Kent Mackenzie (1877–1934) was a lawyer and amateur botanist who wrote extensively on the genus ''Carex'' in North America. Taxa Cyperaceae He described the following taxa in the family Cyperaceae (sedges); alternative combinations are indented. *'' Carex abramsii'' Mack. *'' Carex abrupta'' Mack. *'' Carex abscondita'' Mack. *'' Carex acutinella'' Mack. *'' Carex agglomerata'' Mack. *'' Carex aggregata'' Mack. := '' Carex sparganioides'' var. ''aggregata'' (Mack.) Gleason *'' Carex agrostoides'' Mack. *'' Carex albonigra'' Mack. *'' Carex allegheniensis'' Mack. *'' Carex amphigena'' Mack. *'' Carex amplectens'' Mack. *'' Carex leersii'' var. ''angustata'' (J.Carey) Mack. *'' Carex angustior'' Mack. *'' Carex arctaeformis'' Mack. *'' Carex arctiformis'' Mack. := '' Carex canescens'' subsp. ''arctiformis'' (Mack.) Calder & Roy L.Taylor *'' Carex artitecta'' Mack. *'' Carex atrosquama'' Mack. := '' Carex atrata'' subsp. ''atrosquama'' (Mack.) Hultén := '' Carex atrata'' v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carex
''Carex'' is a vast genus of over 2,000 species of grass-like plants in the family (biology), family Cyperaceae, commonly known as sedges (or seg, in older books). Other members of the family Cyperaceae are also called sedges, however those of genus ''Carex'' may be called true sedges, and it is the most species-rich genus in the family. The study of ''Carex'' is known as caricology. Description All species of ''Carex'' are perennial plant, perennial, although some species, such as ''Carex bebbii, C. bebbii'' and ''Carex viridula, C. viridula'' can fruit in their first year of growth, and may not survive longer. They typically have rhizomes, stolons or short rootstocks, but some species grow in tufts (caespitose). The culm (botany), culm – the flower-bearing stalk – is unbranched and usually erect. It is usually distinctly triangular in section. The leaf, leaves of ''Carex'' comprise a blade, which extends away from the stalk, and a sheath, which encloses part of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inflorescence
In botany, an inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a plant's Plant stem, stem that is composed of a main branch or a system of branches. An inflorescence is categorized on the basis of the arrangement of flowers on a main axis (Peduncle (botany), peduncle) and by the timing of its flowering (determinate and indeterminate). Morphology (biology), Morphologically, an inflorescence is the modified part of the Shoot (botany), shoot of spermatophyte, seed plants where flowers are formed on the axis of a plant. The modifications can involve the length and the nature of the internode (botany), internodes and the phyllotaxis, as well as variations in the proportions, compressions, swellings, adnations, connations and reduction of main and secondary axes. One can also define an inflorescence as the reproductive portion of a plant that bears a cluster of flowers in a specific pattern. General characteristics Inflorescences are described by many different charact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
