Carex sect. Leptocephalae L. H. Bailey (Q280)

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Carex sect. Leptocephalae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex
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Carex sect. Leptocephalae L. H. Bailey
Carex sect. Leptocephalae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex

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    taxon/id/Carex sect. Leptocephalae L.H. Bailey
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    Carex sect. Leptocephalae L.H. Bailey
    Carex sect. Leptocephalae
    L.H. Bailey
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Carex sect. Leptocephalae
    North America
    West Indies
    Plants cespitose, short-rhizomatous.
    Culms brown at base.
    Leaves: basal sheaths not fibrous;
    blades V-shaped in cross-section when young, glabrous.
    Inflorescence 1 spike per culm;
    spike androgynous.
    Proximal pistillate scales less than 10 mm, apex obtuse to acute or short-awned.
    Perigynia appressed-ascending, weakly veined, substipitate, elliptic to narrowly oblong, rounded or flattened-trigonous in cross-section, base long tapering, apex rounded or truncate, orifice entire or emarginate, glabrous;
    Achenes obtusely to sharply trigonous, smaller than bodies of perigynia;