Carex depauperata
The Impoverished sedge or Armblütige sedge ( Carex depauperata ) is a species from the genus of sedges ( Carex ) in the family of the Sedge family ( Cyperaceae ). It belongs to the Misc aged men sedges.
Description
The Impoverished sedge is a perennial plant that forms short runners and therefore lockerrasig growing. It is 30 to 60 (rarely 100) cm high. The stems are rigidly erect, blunt triangular and smooth. They carry leaves. The leaves are 3-4 mm wide, flat, bare and rough. They are about the same length as the stem. The abdominal wall of the vagina has no membranous appendage. The basal leaf sheaths are purple.
It is a male spikelets present. This is fine, up to 3 cm long and lockerblütig. The two to three female spikelets have five to six flowers are 1 to 1.5 cm long, while a maximum of five times as long as wide. You stand upright, are short-stalked and are apart from each other. The bracts have long sheaths and sometimes surpass the inflorescence.
The greenish to pale yellow bracts have a brown skin edge. They are ovate acuminate and sharp. They are substantially shorter than the fruit. The pen bears three scars.
The fruit is up to 10 mm long, obtuse triangular and narrows gradually in the short bidentate beak. She is bare, silvery- gray, and clear vieladrig.
Dissemination
The Impoverished sedge occurs only in Europe and is a submeridional - montanes to südtemperates, oceanic Florenelement. It grows in thermophilous deciduous forests on fresh nutrient-rich soils and is demanding. It shows Mullboden.
In Germany, the species was long considered lost until a copy near Echternacherbrück was rediscovered on the Luxembourg border in 2011. 2013 succeeded to the Botanical Garden Berlin -Dahlem staff, imitated the Impoverished sedge in the culture. In the UK, where it occurs in two places ( in Somerset, close to the railway station of Godalming ), it was re- introduced in 2010 in the vicinity of the well located in Godalming Charterhouse School, where she was considered extinct since the 1940s.