Carex stylosa, C. A. Meyer

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1980, Flora Europaea. Volume 5. Alismataceae to Orchidaceae (Monocotyledones), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 318

152. C. stylosa C. A. Meyer , Mém. Sav. Étr. Pétersb. 1: 222 (1831).

Caespitose, with short creeping rhizomes. Stems (10-)20-45 cm, scabrid above; basal sheaths dark or reddishbrown, leafless, becoming fibrous. Leaves shorter than stems, 2-3 mm wide, green or greyish-green, flat. Terminal spike 8-15 x c. 2 mm, entirely male, shortly pedunculate. Lateral spikes 2-3, 8-15x4-5 mm, entirely female, oblong, usually overlapping each other and often overlapping base of male spike, erect, with peduncles 0-5-3 cm; lowest bract usually about equalling spike, leaf-like. Female glumes c. | as long as utricles, subobtuse, blackish- or dark reddish-brown, with narrow scarious margin. Utricles 2-5-3-5 mm, ellipsoid-ovoid, greenishto brownish-yellow, often dark brown towards apex, papillose, gradually narrowed into a soft, conical, usually smooth, truncate beak, with persistent unbranched part of style protruding for c. 1 mm. Sandy or boggy places. Arctic Norway. No. (N. Siberia, North America.)