Carex sect. Limosae (Heuffel) Meinshauser (Q285)

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Carex sect. Limosae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex
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Carex sect. Limosae (Heuffel) Meinshauser
Carex sect. Limosae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex

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    taxon/id/Carex sect. Limosae (Heuffel) Meinshausen
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    Carex sect. Limosae (Heuffel) Meinshausen
    Carex sect. Limosae
    (Heuffel) Meinshausen
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere and South America
    Plants loosely cespitose, short-rhizomatous;
    roots with dense yellow tomentum.
    Culms red or purple-brown at base.
    Leaves: basal sheaths fibrous;
    blades V-shaped in cross-section when young, sometimes involute, glabrous.
    Inflorescences racemose, with 2–5 spikes;
    proximal bracts sheathless or sheath less than 4 cm;
    lateral spikes pistillate, androgynous, or gynecandrous, pedunculate, prophyllate;
    terminal spikes staminate, gynecandrous.
    Proximal pistillate scales with apex obtuse to acuminate or awned.
    Perigynia ascending, inflated, (3–) 5–7-veined on abaxial face, veinless or 3–7-veined on adaxial face, stipitate or sessile, broadly elliptic or ovate, rounded-trigonous in cross-section, base tapering or rounded, apex tapering or rounded to beak or beakless, minutely papillose;
    beak 0–0.5 mm, mouth entire or emarginate.
    Achenes trigonous, almost as large as bodies of perigynia;
    style deciduous or persistent portion protruding from perigynium mouth.