Carex sect. Vulpinae (Heuffel) H. Christ (Q592)

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Carex sect. Vulpinae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex
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Carex sect. Vulpinae (Heuffel) H. Christ
Carex sect. Vulpinae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex

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    taxon/id/Carex sect. Vulpinae (Heuffel) H. Christ
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    Carex sect. Vulpinae (Heuffel) H. Christ
    Carex sect. Vulpinae
    (Heuffel) H. Christ
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    North America
    temperate Eurasia
    s Africa
    s Australia
    Plants cespitose, short-rhizomatous.
    Culms dark-brown to black at base, usually more than 1 mm wide.
    Leaves: basal sheaths fibrous or not;
    blades V-shaped in cross-section when young, glabrous.
    Inflorescences racemose or paniculate, often condensed, with 4–20+ spikes;
    proximal bracts filiform or scalelike, sheathless;
    lateral spikes androgynous or pistillate, sessile, prophyllate;
    terminal spike androgynous.
    Proximal pistillate scales with apex obtuse to acuminate or short-awned.
    Perigynia ascending to spreading, veined abaxially, veined or veinless adaxially, stipitate, lanceolate to ovate, planoconvex in cross-section, mostly 2 times as long as wide, widest at base, base rounded or truncate, with spongy tissue, margins acutely angled, apex tapering or abruptly contracted to beak, glabrous;
    beak with apex bidentate or subentire, with abaxial suture.
    Achenes biconvex, smaller than bodies of perigynia;