Botanical illustration of Jacob Sturm from the book
Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen , 1796
1 - Carex paradoxa (Syn. Carex appropinquata)
Inflorescence, Czech Republic
A gray-green plant, forms hummocks or dense turfs.
Stems with flat sides, island-rough, 50-100 cm tall [2] , surrounded at the base by hairy-split black-brown remains of leaf sheaths .
The leaves are almost equal to the stem, flat or folded, up to 2 mm wide [2] .
The inflorescence is 4-8 (10) cm long, oblong-paniculate, with pinned or deflected branches, reaching 2-3 cm long below [2] , at the base with short bracts. Spikelets androgynous, numerous, small, low-flowering . Scales are oblong-ovate, sharp, reddish-brown, with a light keel and narrow membranous margin, equal to sacs. Pouches are unequally biconvex, thick-skinned, dull, ovate or broadly ovoid, 2.5–3 mm long [2] , reddish-brown, especially strongly tuberous convex in front, with 7-8 prominent veins on both sides, very narrow at the top serrated edges, with a wide base, sharply narrowed into an elongated, directly truncated or barely notched, serrated and narrowly winged, slit-like nose in front. Covering leaves are scaly.
Fruits in June-July.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 64.
The view is described from Denmark .
Europe The European part of Russia : all areas except the Arctic , the lower Volga , in the Nizhnedonsky Novocherkassk and Esaulovka ; The Baltic states ; Belarus ; Ukraine : all areas except the Black Earth region , Crimea ; Caucasus : Greater Caucasus (west and center), Georgia ( Somkhetia ), Armenia ( Lori plateau ), Javakheti , upper reaches of the Ktsia river; Western Siberia : south of the Ob basin, northern part of the Tobol basin, north and east of the Irtysh basin, Altai ; Eastern Siberia : the Yenisei basin ( Turukhansky district , the lower Angara basin), the extreme south of the Lensko-Kolyma region, the Angara-Sayan region, the eastern coast of Lake Baikal ; West Asia : Northeast Turkey .
