Carex sect. Holarrhenae (Döll) Pax in H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl (Q226)

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Carex sect. Holarrhenae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex
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Carex sect. Holarrhenae (Döll) Pax in H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl
Carex sect. Holarrhenae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex

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    taxon/id/Carex sect. Holarrhenae (Döll) Pax
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    Carex sect. Holarrhenae (Döll) Pax
    Carex sect. Holarrhenae
    (Döll) Pax
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Carex sect. Holarrhenae
    Temperate regions of Northern Hemisphere
    Plants not cespitose, long-rhizomatous.
    Culms brown at base.
    Leaves: basal sheaths not fibrous;
    blades V-shaped in cross-section when young, glabrous.
    Inflorescences racemose with 9–37 spikes;
    proximal bracts shortly leaflike, sheathless;
    spikes androgynous or unisexual, sessile, without prophylls.
    Proximal pistillate scales with apex obtuse to cuspidate.
    Perigynia erect, veined on both faces, sessile, broadly ovate, planoconvex, base rounded, margins sharply to narrowly winged, apex abruptly contracted to beak, glabrous;
    beak 0.4–1.9 (–2.3) mm, with abaxial suture, margins often serrulate, apex slightly bidentate.
    Achenes biconvex, smaller than bodies of perigynia;