Carex rostrata

Sırıksaparna

Rhizomes creeping. Sterns 20-100 cm, erect, often rather stout, obtusely trigonous, smooth or somewhat scabrid above; base of flowering stems with small brownish sheaths; sheaths of sterile shoots purplish-brown, entire. Leaves 3-9 mm broad, canaliculate, glaucous, minutely but distinctly papillose; ligule rounded. Male spikes 2-4. Female spikes 2-5, cylindrical, 20-90 mm, very dense, suberect, subsessile or lowest with short peduncle; lowest bract equalling or somewhat longer than inflorescence. Female glumes equalling or slightly shorter than utricles, oblong-lanceolate, 3.5-5 mm, acute, brown or reddishbrown, midrib paler. Utricles pale yellowish-green to pale brown, ovoid, 4-6 mm, usually patent when ripe, slightly shining, faintly veined, abruptly contracted into deeply bifid beak 1-1.5 mm with diverging points. Lake margins, ditches, fens and marshes, 1400-2400 m.

Circumboreal; most of Europe but rare in Balkans; C. & S. Russia, Caucasia, Siberia, N. Iran, Kashmir, C. & E. Asia. Euro-Sib./Boreo-American element.