The sedge Colchis ( lat. Carex colchica ) is a perennial herbaceous plant, a species of the genus sedge ( Carex ) of the sedge family ( Cyperaceae ).
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Dissemination and ecology
The species range covers Southern Europe : Romania , Bulgaria , Greece , Turkey ; Atlantic and Central Europe; Western Asia : southern Turkey; Baltic states : Estonia ( Saaremaa island), Latvia (coast of the Gulf of Riga and the Baltic Sea ), Lithuania , Kaliningrad region ; The European part of Russia : Udmurtia , the middle part of the Dnieper basin, the Volga and Don basins (south), the Lower Volga region ; Belarus : Gomel region , Zhitkovichi district ; Ukraine : Crimea ; Caucasus : Ciscaucasia , Dagestan , Azerbaijan ( Pirsagat River); Central Asia : Aral-Caspian region.
It grows on loose and low-graded, coastal and riparian sands, in sandy steppes , along sandy slopes.
Botanical description
Gray-green plant, with a long and thickened rhizome , 2-3 (5) mm thick [2] , with a thin, with drying, lagging and crumbling bark , fragrant, clotted with almost unsplit and brown vagina .
Stems stupidly above-triangular, mostly smooth [2] , somewhat curved, 10-50 cm high, dressed at the base with brick-brown, leafless sheaths.
The leaves are hard, up to 3 mm wide, folded or folded, smooth on the outside, rough on the edge, thinly pointed.
Spikelets including 4–10, ovate, up to 1–1.2 cm long, 0.8 cm wide, mostly gynecidal, or along with them, staminate (upper and middle) and pistillate (lower) [2] , are collected in oblong spike, length up to 4 cm. Ocular-shaped scales, long-pointed, rusty, lighter on the keel and edges, equal to the sacs. The bags are ovate, semi-leather, 4–4.5 mm long (3.5 [2] ), flat-convex, light-rusty, in front with 9–18 veins [2] , rounded at the base, almost sessile, upward, notched winged (wing narrow, 0.2-0.3 mm wide [2] ), gradually narrowed into a two-toothed spout. Covering leaves scaly.
Fruits in May - June.
View described from the Caucasus and the Crimea.
Taxonomy
The sedge colchid species is included in the sedge genus ( Carex ) of the tribe Cariceae of the subfamily Sytate ( Cariceae ) of the sedge family ( Apiaceae ) of the order Poses .
| 17 more families (according to the APG II System ) | 13 more tribes (according to the APG II System ) | more than 2450 species | ||||||||||||||||||
| order hercerebral | subfamily Sythee | genus Osoka | ||||||||||||||||||
| department Flowering, or Angiosperms | Sedge family | tribe Cariceae | view Sedge colchis | |||||||||||||||||
| another 44 orders of flowering plants (according to the APG II System ) | subfamily Mapanievs (according to the APG II System ) | about 100 more births | ||||||||||||||||||
Notes
- ↑ On the conditionality of specifying the class of monocotyledons as a higher taxon for the group of plants described in this article, see the “APG Systems” section of the article “Monocotyledons” .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 Egorova T.V. The sedges (Carex L.) of Russia and adjacent states (within the former USSR) . - St. Petersburg, St. Louis: St. Petersburg HCSP and Missouri Botanical Garden, 1999. - p. 510-512. - 772 s. (Checked April 4, 2010)
Literature
- Krechetovich V.I. Genus 235. Osok - Carex // Flora of the USSR : in 30 t. / Ch. ed. V.L. Komarov . - L .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , 1935. - T. 3 / ed. volume B. K. Shishkin . - p. 134. - 636, XXV with. - 5175 copies
- Egorova T.V. The sedges (Carex L.) of Russia and adjacent states (within the former USSR) . - St. Petersburg, St. Louis: St. Petersburg HCSP and Missouri Botanical Garden, 1999. - p. 510-512. - 772 s.