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(Last Modified On 10/24/2012)
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(Last Modified On 10/24/2012)
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Species
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CAREX DONNELL-SMITHII Bailey
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PlaceOfPublication
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Mem. Torrey Club 1:56. 1889
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Synonym
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Carex Pittieri Boeckl. Allg. Bot. Zeitschr. 2:190. 1896
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Description
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Culms stout, 30-100 cm. high, purplish at the base; leaves numerous, the lower clustered, the leaf blades 3-10 mm. wide, glabrous, coriaceous, stiff, long- attenuate; inflorescence compound, 20-60 cm. long, the lower branches in 2's or 4's, the upper simple; spikes numerous, androgynous, narrowly linear-cylindric, 3-12 cm. long, 3.5-5 mm. wide, the pistillate part rather loosely 20- to 50- flowered; scales lance-ovate, usually rough-awned, purplish-black; perigynia lanceolate, 3.5-4 mm. long, membranaceous, dull green, scarcely inflated, punctic- ulate, 2-ribbed and strongly few-nerved, short-stipitate, abruptly beaked, the beak excurved, 1-1.5 mm. long, bidentate, the teeth stiffish, scabrous within.
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Distribution
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In thickets, forest, or sphagnum bogs in mountains; Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUi: El Boquete, Killip 4528, 4546; Davidson I044; Chiriqul Volcano, Hitch- Cock 8212; Bajo Chorro, Davidson I46.
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