Carex sect. Granulares (O. Lang) Mackenzie in N. L. Britton et al. (Q210)

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Carex sect. Granulares is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex
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Carex sect. Granulares (O. Lang) Mackenzie in N. L. Britton et al.
Carex sect. Granulares is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex

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    taxon/id/Carex sect. Granulares (O. Lang) Mackenzie
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    Carex sect. Granulares (O. Lang) Mackenzie
    Carex sect. Granulares
    (O. Lang) Mackenzie
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Carex sect. Granulares
    Temperate and subtropical regions of North America
    s Mexico
    Central America (Guatemala)
    Plants cespitose or not, short to long rhizomatous, sometimes inconspicuously rhizomatous.
    Culms sometimes solitary, brown at base.
    Leaves: basal sheaths not fibrous;
    blades M-shaped in cross-section when young, adaxial side of blade with 2 lateral-veins more prominent than midvein, widest leaves not more than 10 mm wide, glabrous.
    Inflorescences racemose, with (2–) 3–6 spikes;
    proximal nonbasal bracts leaflike, long-sheathing, sheath more than 4 mm, longer than diameter of stem;
    lateral spikes pistillate or androgynous, rarely distal 1–3 spikes staminate, sometimes some basal, pedunculate, prophyllate;
    terminal spike staminate.
    Proximal pistillate scales with apex acute, acuminate, or short-awned.
    Perigynia ascending to spreading, minute redbrown or yellowish streaks and dots, distinctly veined, sessile, ellipsoid or rhomboid to broadly ovoid, obovoid, or subglobose, obscurely trigonous to round in cross-section, base rounded, apex rounded, abruptly beaked, glabrous;
    beak 0.1–0.9 mm, orifice entire to minutely bidentulate, teeth 0–0.3 mm.
    Achenes trigonous, smaller than bodies of perigynia;