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Carex limosa L.   (redirected from: Carex limosa var. fuscocuprea K?.)
Family: Cyperaceae
[Carex elegans Willd., moreCarex fuscocuprea (K?.) V.I.Krecz., Carex glaucocarpa St.-Lag., Carex limosa f. laxiformis Lackow., Carex limosa f. pauciflora Asch., Carex limosa f. robustior Lackow., Carex limosa f. stans Bolle, Carex limosa var. fuscocuprea K?., Carex limosa var. oblonga Dewey, Carex limosa var. painei Dewey, Dichostylis limosa (Maxim.) A.E.Kozhevn., Facolos limosa (L.) Raf., Trasus limosus (L.) Gray]
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Japan Flora: Rhizomes elongate, long-creeping, with yellow-tomentose, thick roots; culms 20-40 cm. long; leaf-blades 1.5-2.5 mm. wide, cinereous-green, the sheaths reddish brown; spikes 2 or 3, distant, the terminal staminate, linear, 2-2.5 cm. long, on an erect peduncle, dark tawny, the others pistillate or rarely with a short terminal staminate portion, ovoid or oblong, 15-20 mm. long, pendulous on long setaceous peduncles, the lowest bract bristlelike, erect; pistillate scales ovate, acute, sharply mucro­nate, copper-brown; perigynia narrower and slightly shorter than the scales, elliptic, 3.5-4 mm. long, glaucous-green, com­pressed-triangular, several-nerved, densely puncticulate, abruptly very short-beaked, with a ferrugineous emarginate tip; achene compressed-trigonous; stigmas 3.  June-Aug. Sphagnum bogs.

Hokkaido, Honshu (Tajima Prov. and eastw.); rather common. Widely distributed in bogs in the N. Hemisphere.

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