Carex sect. Divisae H. Christ ex Kükenthal in H. G. A. Engler (Q159)

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

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    taxon/id/Carex sect. Divisae H. Christ ex Kükenthal
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    Carex sect. Divisae H. Christ ex Kükenthal
    Carex sect. Divisae
    H. Christ ex Kükenthal
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    North America
    South America
    Eurasia
    South Africa
    Australia
    Plants not cespitose, sometimes colonial, long-rhizomatous;
    rhizomes with tight cortex, not detaching on drying, mostly more than 1 mm wide, covered with persistant scales.
    Culms brown at base, rough, scabrous-angled distally or not.
    Leaves: basal sheaths fibrous or not;
    blades V-shaped in cross-section when young or involute, widest leaves 1+ mm wide, glabrous.
    Inflorescences racemose, with 3–25+ spikes, ovoid to cylindric, often very condensed;
    proximal bracts scalelike or cuspidate, or absent, sheathless;
    spikes staminate, pistillate, or, sometimes, androgynous, sessile, without prophylls.
    Proximal pistillate scales with apex acuminate, cuspidate, or short-awned.
    Perigynia ascending to erect, both faces veined or veinless adaxially, often stipitate, ovate to narrowly ovate, planoconvex or biconvex, base rounded, ± spongy, margins acutely angled, apex tapering or contracted to beak, glabrous;
    beak 0.25–1.9 mm, at least 1/4 length of body, with abaxial suture, margins often serrulate, apex slightly bidentate.
    Achenes biconvex, smaller than bodies of perigynia;