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Carex cruciata Wahlenb.   (redirected from: Carex spongocrepis Nelmes)
Family: Cyperaceae
[Carex bengalensis Roxb., moreCarex bengalensis f. glauca Boeckeler ex Kuntze, Carex condensata Franch., Carex cruciata subsp. rubrobrunnea (Ohwi) T.Koyama, Carex cruciata var. argocarpus C.B.Clarke, Carex cruciata var. nagporensis C.B.Clarke, Carex cruciata var. rubrobrunnea Ohwi, Carex galactolepis Nelmes, Carex hakkuensis Hayata, Carex spongocrepis Nelmes, Carex valida Nees]
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Japan Flora: Large stout herb; rhizomes thick, short­creeping; culms 40-100 cm. long, stout, glabrous, obtusely angled; leaf-blades flat, 6-12 mm. wide, coriaceous, the basal sheaths pale or partially sanguineous; inflorescence a large compound panicle, with numerous peduncled spikes, the branches hdspid-scabrous,the bracts leaflike, much longer than the inflorescence, long-sheathing; spikes androgynous, oblong or ovoid, 5-8 mm. long, light tawny; bractlets scalelike, awned; cladoprophyllum utricle-shaped; pistillate scales broadly ovate, cuspidate, lustrous, pale and ferrugineous- striolate, slenderly nerved; perigynia longer than the scales, 3.5- 4 mm. long, ovoid, inflated, glabrous or hairy at tip, rather abruptly long-beaked, witli an obliquely truncate hya­line tip; stigmas 3.  

Kyushu (Nagaura in Hizen Prov.); rare. Ryukyus, Formosa, China, and India.

Carex cruciata
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