Carex sect. Anomalae J. Carey (Q79)

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Carex sect. Anomalae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex
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Carex sect. Anomalae J. Carey
Carex sect. Anomalae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex

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    taxon/id/Carex sect. Anomalae J. Carey
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    Carex sect. Anomalae J. Carey
    Carex sect. Anomalae
    J. Carey
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Primarily temperate
    some tropical and subtropical
    North America
    e Asia
    Australia
    Plants cespitose, stout-rhizomatous.
    Culms brown [purple] or redbrown at base, sharply angled or winged.
    Leaves: basal sheaths not fibrous;
    blades M-shaped in cross-section when young, adaxial side of blade with 2, lateral, veins more prominent than midvein, septate-nodulose, larger blades 8–23 mm wide, not hairy, sometimes scabrous on adaxial surface [or puberulous].
    Inflorescences racemose, with 4–8 (–9) spikes;
    proximal nonbasal bracts leaflike, sheathless or sheath less than 4 mm, pubescent;
    lateral spikes pistillate, pedunculate, prophyllate;
    terminal spike staminate (rarely gynecandrous).
    Proximal pistillate scales with apex acute or awned.
    Perigynia ascending or spreading, veined or veinless, with 2, strong, marginal veins, slightly stipitate, [ovate to lance or oblongovate] obovate, rounded-trigonous in cross-section, less than 10 mm, base tapering or rounded, apex abruptly contracted to beak, glabrous or scabrous;
    beak conic, recurved, 0.7–1.9 mm, orifice hyaline, erose or bidentate, teeth less than 0.8 mm.
    Achenes trigonous, almost as large as bodies of perigynia;