Carex pseudocyperus

Üçsazotu

var. pseudocyperus

Laxly caespitose; rhizomes short. Stems 40-80 cm, scabrid. Leaves 5-12 mm broad, longer than stems, plicate to flat, yellowish-green; basal sheaths reddish- to greyish-brown. Male spike solitary. Female spikes 3-5, cylindrical, 20-70 mm, dense, pendulous, rather clustered at top or lowest somewhat distant; peduncles slender, rough; lowest bract leaf-like, much longer than Inflor escence, shortly sheathed. Female glumes brownish-hyaline with green midrib, ovate-lanceolate, longer than utricles, with long scabrid arista. Utricles brownish- green, narrowly ovoid to ellipsoid, 4.5-5.5 mm, broader than glumes, often oblique, patent, distinctly veined, glabrous, gradually narrowing into smooth, deeply bifid, hard-pointed beak c. 2 mm. Lake margins, ditches, marshes, sometimes in water, 10-1500 m.

N. Africa, most of Europe, C. & S. Russia, Siberia, W. Syria, Caucasia, N. fran , C. & E. Asia, New Zealand, N. America. Euro-Sib./BoreoAmerican element.