Carex albonigra Mackenzie  
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Family: Cyperaceae
Black-and-White-Scale Sedge, more...blackandwhite sedge, black-and-white sedge
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Peter W. Ball & A. A. Reznicek in Flora of North America (vol. 23)
Plants densely cespitose. Culms 10-30 cm, distally finely scabrous. Leaves 2.5-5 mm wide. Inflorescences: proximal bracts shorter than or exceeding inflorescences; spikes contiguous, overlapping, erect, distinct, short-pendunculate, short-oblong or elongate, 8-20 × 4-7 mm; lateral 1-3 spikes pistillate pedunculate, of similar length; terminal spike gynecandrous. Pistillate scales light to dark brown with hyaline margins, broadly lanceolate or ovate, equaling perigynia, midvein same color as body, inconspicuous, raised, prominent, short-mucronate. Perigynia ascending, chestnut, veinless, ovate, 3-3.5 × 2-2.5 mm, apex abruptly beaked, papillose; beak 0.3-0.4 mm, entire or shallowly bidentate, smooth. Achenes nearly filling body of perigynia. 2n = 52, 54. Fruiting Jun-Aug. Alpine meadows, fellfields; 300-3900 m; Alta., B.C., N.W.T., Yukon; Alaska, Ariz., Calif., Colo., Idaho, Mont., N.Mex., Utah, Wash., Wyo. Specimens from California determined as Carex albonigra are provisionally assigned here; these need further study because they differ from the typical Rocky Mountain forms.

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