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Carex phacota Spreng.   (redirected from: Carex lepidopristis H.L?. & Vaniot)
Family: Cyperaceae
[Carex cincta Franch., moreCarex cincta var. subphacota K?., Carex fauriae Franch., Carex gracilipes Miq., Carex lepidopristis H.L?. & Vaniot, Carex phacota var. cincta (Franch.) Ohwi, Carex phacota var. gracilispica K?., Carex phacota var. shichiseitensis (Hayata) Ohwi, Carex platycarpa Hochst. ex Steud., Carex pruinosa var. aristata Kuntze, Carex shichiseitensis Hayata, Carex subphacota (K?.) Nakai, Carex subphacota var. glauca Honda]
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Japan Flora: Tufted plant; culms 20-60 cm. long, acutely angled, scabrous on the angles; leaf-blades 2-6 mm. wide, cinereous to glaucous-green, rather firm, the basal sheaths nearly bladeless, brown to yel­lowish, sparingly fibrous; spikes 3 to 5, the terminal usually staminate, the lateral pistillate, very often with a short staminate portion at apex, cylindric, 2-6 cm. long, erect, declinate or sometimes pendulous, approximate to contiguous, usually long-ped uncled, the lower bracts leaf-like, much longer than the culm; pistillate scales narrowly obovate, ferrugineous, truncate to emarginate, 3-nerved, the green midrib prolonged into a long slightly recurved awn; perigynia nearly twice as long as the body of the scales, elliptic, 2.5-3.5 mm. long, com­pressed-biconvex, almost nerveless, densely papillose, cinereous- green to cinnamon-colored, or becoming dark brown when dried, abruptly beaked, very short-emarginate at the tip; stigmas 2.  May. Wet places in lowlands.

Hokkaido, Hon­shu, Shikoku, Kyushu; common. Korea, Ryukyus, For­mosa, China, India, and Malaysia.

Carex phacota
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