Carex sect. Mitratae Kükenthal in H. G. A. Engler (Q301)

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Carex sect. Mitratae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex
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Carex sect. Mitratae Kükenthal in H. G. A. Engler
Carex sect. Mitratae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex

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    taxon/id/Carex sect. Mitratae Kükenthal
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    Carex sect. Mitratae Kükenthal
    Carex sect. Mitratae
    Kükenthal
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Plants not cespitose, long-rhizomatous.
    Culms brown at base.
    Leaves: basal sheaths fibrous;
    blades V-shaped in cross-section when young, glabrous.
    Inflorescences racemose, with 2–4 spikes;
    proximal bracts scalelike to threadlike, sheathless or short-sheathing to 5 mm;
    lateral spikes pistillate, pedunculate, prophyllate;
    terminal spike staminate.
    Proximal pistillate scales with apex obtuse, cuspidate.
    Perigynia ascending, weakly veined, with 2 distinct marginal veins, stipitate, obovate, rounded-trigonous in cross-section, less than 10 mm, base tapering, apex abruptly beaked, pubescent;
    beak 0.2 mm, minutely bidentate.
    Achenes trigonous, almost as large as bodies of perigynia, apex prolonged to form collar around base of style;
    style with persistent, enlarged, conic base.