Carex disticha, Hudson

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 : 299

15. C. disticha Hudson , Fl. Angl. 347 (1762)

( C. intermedia Good. , non Retz.).

Stems (15-)30-100(-120) cm; basal sheaths dark brown. Leaves 2-4(-6) mm wide, shorter than or almost equalling stems. Spikes 15-30, the lower and upper usually female, oblong-ovoid, the middle usually male, crowded into an irregularly lobed, long inflorescence 3-7(-10) x 1-2 cm, often conspicuously contracted in the middle, the lowest spikes sometimes slightly remote. Female glumes reddish-brown. Utricles 4-5 mm, brown or reddish-brown, conspicuously veined, with a narrow, scarious, scabrid wing in the upper |, gradually narrowed into beak. 2« = 62. Damp meadows. Much of Europe, but absent from the extreme north and most of the Mediterranean region. Au Be Br Bu Cz Da Fe Ga Ge?Gr Hb He Ho Hs Hu It Ju No Po Rm Rs (B, C, W,?K, E) Su.