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Carex vaginata Tausch  
Family: Cyperaceae
[Carex falcata Turcz., moreCarex panicea subsp. vaginata (Tausch) Rouy, Carex panicea var. sparsiflora Wahlenb., Carex petersii C.A.Mey. ex F.Schmidt, Carex quasivaginata C.B.Clarke, Carex sparsiflora (Wahlenb.) Steud., Carex sparsiflora var. borealis Andersson, Carex sparsiflora var. falcata (Turcz.) K?., Carex sparsiflora var. petersii (C.A.Mey. ex Schmidt) K?., Carex vaginata var. petersii (C.A.Mey. ex Schmidt) Akiyama]
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Japan Flora: Rhizomes elongate, slender; culms 20-50 cm. long, glabrous; leaf-blades soft, flat, bright green, 2-5 mm. wide, the sheaths parrially dark reddish purple; spikes 2-4, distant, the terminal staminate, broadly linear, 1.5-2 cm. long, dark purplish brown, the lateral pistillate, short-cylindric, rather densely many-flowered, long-peduncled, 1.5-2 cm. long, the bracts short-bladed, long-sheathing; pktillate scales ovate, dark purplish brown or dark reddish purple; perigynia longer than the scales, ascending to spreading, obtusely 3-angled, ovoid, membranous, glabrous, faintly nerved, abruptly short to rather long-beaked, with an obsoletely 2-toothed apex; stigmas 3. June-July. Woods in mountains.

Hokkaido, Honshu (Mount Yakeishidake in Rikuchu Prov.); rare. e. Siberia, Sakhalin, Kamchatka, s. and centr. Kuriles, and Korea. The typical phase occurs in Canada, Siberia, and Eu­rope.

Carex vaginata
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