Carex echinata Murray

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Taxonomy: Fam. Cyperaceae// Genus: Carex// Species: Carex echinata Murray.

Determined according to the botanical key provided by Chater in Tutin et al. (1980).

Lifeform: Perrenial; Hemicryptophyte according to the Raunkiær system.

Distribution: Native to the Temperate Northern Hemisphere – Canada and USA, Europe to Iran, East Himalaya, Northeast China to Japan, West Africa; Indonesia – Sumatra; New Guinea; Southeast Australia; New Zealand according to the distribution information provided by the Plants of the World Online portal (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew).

Habitat: Wet habitats – sphagnum bogs, wet grasslands in the montane/subalpine zone and mountain streams.

Flowering period: Summer: JUN.

Carex echinata – habit. Osogovo – Ponikva, 04.06.2023. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Carex echinata – habit. Osogovo – Ponikva, 04.06.2023. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Carex echinata – flowering stem. Osogovo – Ponikva, 04.06.2023. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Carex echinata – flowering stem. Osogovo – Ponikva, 04.06.2023. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Carex echinata – inflorescence with spikes. Osogovo – Ponikva, 04.06.2023. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Carex echinata – inflorescence with spikes. Osogovo – Ponikva, 04.06.2023. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Carex echinata – inflorescence with spikes. Osogovo – Ponikva, 04.06.2023. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Carex echinata – spikes. Osogovo – Ponikva, 04.06.2023. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Carex echinata – leaves. Osogovo – Ponikva, 04.06.2023. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Carex echinata – leaves. Osogovo – Ponikva, 04.06.2023. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Carex echinata – adaxial side of leaf. Osogovo – Ponikva, 04.06.2023. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Carex echinata – abaxial side of leaf. Osogovo – Ponikva, 04.06.2023. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Carex echinata – ligule. Osogovo – Ponikva, 04.06.2023. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Carex echinata – stem base. Osogovo – Ponikva, 04.06.2023. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Carex echinata – basal sheaths. Osogovo – Ponikva, 04.06.2023. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Carex echinata – habit. Osogovo – Ponikva, 18.06.2023. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Carex echinata – inflorescences with utricles. Osogovo – Ponikva, 18.06.2023. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Carex echinata – inflorescence with utricles. Osogovo – Ponikva, 18.06.2023. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Carex echinata – inflorescence with utricles. Osogovo – Ponikva, 18.06.2023. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Carex echinata – inflorescence with utricles. Osogovo – Ponikva, 18.06.2023. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Carex echinata – habit. Osogovo – Ponikva, 08.07.2023. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Carex echinata – habit. Osogovo – Ponikva, 08.07.2023. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Carex echinata – inflorescence with utricles. Osogovo – Ponikva, 08.07.2023. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Carex echinata – inflorescence with utricles. Osogovo – Ponikva, 08.07.2023. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Carex echinata – inflorescence with utricles. Osogovo – Ponikva, 08.07.2023. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.

References:

Carex echinata Murray. Plants of the World Online portal, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:46120-2 [Accessed 30.07.2023].

Carex L. Chater, A. O. in 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, pp. 290 – 323.