Carex sect. Leucoglochin Dumortier (Q282)

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Carex sect. Leucoglochin is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex
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Carex sect. Leucoglochin Dumortier
Carex sect. Leucoglochin is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex

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    taxon/id/Carex sect. Leucoglochin Dumortier
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    Carex sect. Leucoglochin Dumortier
    Carex sect. Leucoglochin
    Dumortier
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Carex sect. Leucoglochin
    Widespread in arctic
    boreal
    and alpine regions of North America and Eurasia
    w and s South America
    c Asia
    Plants cespitose or not, short to long rhizomatous.
    Culms pale-brown at base.
    Leaves: basal sheaths not fibrous;
    blades V-shaped in cross-section when young, glabrous.
    Inflorescence 1 spike per culm;
    spike androgynous.
    Proximal pistillate scales soon deciduous, less than 10 mm, shorter than perigynium, apex obtuse or subacute.
    Perigynia at first erect, becoming deflexed, obscurely veined, very obliquely substipitate, lance-subulate to narrowly elongate-oblong, almost round in cross-section, base tapered and spongy, apex tapering gradually to beak, glabrous;
    beak less than 2 mm, orifice truncate.
    Achenes narrowly oblong or narrowly oblong-lanceoloid, trigonous with sides concave proximally, much smaller than bodies of perigynia;
    style persistent.