Carex sect. Lupulinae Tuckerman ex J. Carey (Q294)

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Carex sect. Lupulinae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex
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Carex sect. Lupulinae Tuckerman ex J. Carey
Carex sect. Lupulinae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex

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    taxon/id/Carex sect. Lupulinae Tuckerman ex J. Carey
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    Carex sect. Lupulinae Tuckerman ex J. Carey
    Carex sect. Lupulinae
    Tuckerman ex J. Carey
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Carex sect. Lupulinae
    e North America
    Plants cespitose or not, rarely colonial, short to long rhizomatous.
    Culms purplish or reddish, rarely brown at base.
    Leaves: basal sheaths not fibrous;
    sheaths and larger leaves distinctly septate-nodulose;
    blades V-shaped in cross-section when young, glabrous.
    Inflorescences racemose, with 2–6 (–9) spikes;
    proximal bracts leaflike, sheathless or sheath less than 4 mm, shorter or longer than diam. of stem;
    lateral spikes pistillate or the distal 1 (–5) staminate or androgynous, globose, ovoid, or cylindric, pedunculate, prophyllate;
    terminal spike staminate.
    Proximal pistillate scales with apex obtuse to acuminate, often awned.
    Perigynia ascending to spreading, distinctly 15–20-veined, sometimes stipitate, inflated, ovate, ± round in cross-section, 10–20 mm, base cuneate to rounded, apex tapering or abruptly beaked, glabrous or sparsely hairy;
    beak conspicuously bidentate, teeth not more than 1 mm.
    Achenes trigonous, smaller than bodies of perigynia;
    style persistent.