Carex sect. Thuringiaca G. Don in J. Loudon (Q565)

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Carex sect. Thuringiaca is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex
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Carex sect. Thuringiaca G. Don in J. Loudon
Carex sect. Thuringiaca is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex

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    taxon/id/Carex sect. Thuringiaca G. Don
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    Carex sect. Thuringiaca G. Don
    Carex sect. Thuringiaca
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Carex sect. Thuringiaca
    Plants loosely cespitose, long-rhizomatous.
    Culms redbrown at base.
    Leaves: basal sheaths not or slightly fibrous;
    blades V-shaped in cross-section when young, glabrous.
    Inflorescences racemose, with 3–6 spikes;
    proximal bracts leaflike, sheathless or sheath less than 4 mm;
    lateral spikes pistillate, cylindric, with usually more than 30 perigynia or distal 1–3 spikes staminate, pedunculate, prophyllate;
    terminal spikes staminate.
    Proximal pistillate scales with apex acute or acuminate.
    Perigynia ascending to spreading, 2 strong marginal veins, otherwise veinless, substipitate, elliptic, round or rounded-trigonous in cross-section, less than 10 mm, base rounded, apex rounded, abuptly beaked, puberulent-papillose, glabrous;
    beak straight, to 0.1 mm, orifice entire.
    Achenes trigonous, smaller than bodies of perigynia;
    style deciduous, base not conspicuously enlarged.