Carex sect. Hirtifoliae Reznicek (Q224)

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Carex sect. Hirtifoliae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex
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Carex sect. Hirtifoliae Reznicek
Carex sect. Hirtifoliae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex

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    taxon/id/Carex sect. Hirtifoliae Reznicek
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    Carex sect. Hirtifoliae Reznicek
    Carex sect. Hirtifoliae
    Reznicek
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Carex sect. Hirtifoliae
    Temperate e North America
    Plants loosely cespitose, short-rhizomatous.
    Culms redbrown at base.
    Leaves: basal sheaths not fibrous;
    blades M-shaped in cross-section when young, adaxial surface with 2 lateral-veins more prominent than midvein, pilose.
    Inflorescences racemose, with 2–5 spikes;
    proximal bracts sheathless or sheath less than 4 mm;
    lateral spikes pistillate, subsessile or short-pedunculate not more than 1 cm, prophyllate;
    terminal spikes staminate.
    Proximal pistillate scales with apex awned, glabrous.
    Perigynia ascending, veinless except for 2 strong marginal veins, stipitate, ellipsoidobovoid, trigonous in cross-section, less than 10 mm, base rounded, apex abruptly contracted to beak, pilose;
    beak 0.7–1.5 mm, bidentate, teeth less than 0.8 mm.
    Achenes trigonous, nearly as large as bodies of perigynia;