Carex sect. Circinatae Meinshausen (Q137)

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Carex sect. Circinatae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex
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Carex sect. Circinatae Meinshausen
Carex sect. Circinatae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex

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    taxon/id/Carex sect. Circinatae Meinshausen
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    Carex sect. Circinatae Meinshausen
    Carex sect. Circinatae
    Meinshausen
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Carex sect. Circinatae
    North America
    amphi-Pacific
    Plants cespitose or not, short or long-rhizomatous.
    Culms pale-brown at base.
    Leaves: basal sheaths not or scarcely fibrous;
    blades threadlike or V-shaped in cross-section, glabrous.
    Inflorescence 1 spike;
    spike androgynous or pistillate, lax.
    Proximal pistillate scales persistent, exceeding perigynia, apex cuspidate or awned.
    Perigynia not more than 15, erect, weakly veined, linear-lanceolate, obscurely trigonous, 3–6 mm, 3–4 times as long as wide, base tapering, margins rounded, apex tapering to beak, glabrous;
    beak less than 2 mm, orifice obliquely cleft.
    Stigmas (2–) 3.
    Achenes usually trigonous, 1.5–2.5 mm, smaller than bodies of perigynia;