Northeastern Asian Flora
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Carex grallatoria Maxim.  
Family: Cyperaceae
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Japan Flora: Rhizomes slender, short, with ascending innovations; culms slender, 5-20 cm. long; leaf-blades about 1 mm. wide, overtopping the culm after anthesis, the basal sheaths dark reddish, rarely pale; spikes unisexual (plant dioecious), solitary, terminal, bractless, the pktillate loosely 3- to 6-flowered, broadly linear, about 1 cm. long, the staminate loosely few-flowered, linear, reddish brown; pistillate scales narrowly ovate, pale to partially reddish brown, slightly lustrous, clasping at base; perigynia nearly as long as or slightly longer than the scales, ellipsoidal, nerveless except for 2 scabrous costal nerves, pale green, mem­branous, the beak short, recurved, with an entire hyaline mouth; stigmas 3, rather long.   Apr.-May. Rocks in woods in mountains.

Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; gregarious and matted.

Carex grallatoria
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