Carex sect. Inflatae Kükenthal in H. G. A. Engler (Q243)

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

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    taxon/id/Carex sect. Inflatae Kükenthal
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    Carex sect. Inflatae Kükenthal
    Carex sect. Inflatae
    Kükenthal
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Alpine regions of w North America
    Plants cespitose, short-rhizomatous.
    Culms brown at base.
    Leaves: basal sheaths not fibrous;
    blades filiform, glabrous.
    spike androgynous, dense, with 15+ perigynia.
    Pistillate scales persistent, less than 10 mm, apex obtuse, acute to acuminate, rarely awned.
    Perigynia eventually spreading, usually veinless, inflated, stipitate or sessile, elliptic or broadly elliptic, rounded-trigonous in cross-section, (4–) 4.5–10 mm, usually not more than 2 times as long as wide, base rounded, margins rounded, apex abruptly beaked, glossy, glabrous;
    beak less than 2 mm, entire to erose.
    Achenes trigonous, smaller than and loosely enveloped by the bodies of perigynia;