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(Last Modified On 10/23/2012)
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(Last Modified On 10/23/2012)
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Species
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LIPOCARPHA SELLOWIANA Kunth
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PlaceOfPublication
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Enum. 2: 267. 1837
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Reference
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Osten, Anal. Mus. Hist. Nat. Montevideo, II. 3:116, f. 28. 1932.
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Description
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Perennial, with rigid sulcate culms 1.5-8 dm. long, 1.0-1.5 mm. wide; leaves basal, much shorter than the culm, 1.0 mm. wide or less, both sheaths and blades indurated, the blades serrulate at the apex; inflorescence terminal, of 3-5 sessile spikes, with 2 involucral bracts 1-7 mm. long; scales firm, subaristate, frequently incurved, yellow to dull brown, 1.0-1.5 mm. wide, broadly cuneate-obovate; inner scale hyaline, only slightly longer than the achene which it encloses; achene nar- rowly obovate, 1.0-1.2 mm. long, 0.5 mm. wide, yellow to dull brown, promi- nently papillose.
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Distribution
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Mostly in bogs from 600 to 1500 m.; of scattered distribution from Mexico to Paraguay.
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Elevation
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600 to 1500 m.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: El Boquete, alt. 1200-1500 m., Woodson d Schery 747; Cornman 2697; Llanos del Volcan, Seibert 370. COCLE: El Valle de Anton, Allen 1993.
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