Carex sect. Dispermae Ohwi (Q157)

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Carex sect. Dispermae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex
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Carex sect. Dispermae Ohwi
Carex sect. Dispermae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex

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    taxon/id/Carex sect. Dispermae Ohwi
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    Carex sect. Dispermae Ohwi
    Carex sect. Dispermae
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Carex sect. Dispermae
    North America
    Eurasia
    Plants loosely cespitose, long-rhizomatous.
    Culms brown at base.
    Leaves: basal sheaths fibrous or not;
    blades V-shaped in cross-section when young, scabrid.
    Inflorescences racemose;
    proximal bracts bristlelike, sheathless;
    spikes 1–6, androgynous, often with only 1 or 2 staminate flowers, sessile, without prophylls.
    Proximal pistillate scales with apex acuminate or mucronate.
    Perigynia spreading, veined on both faces, stipitate, oblongovate, unequally biconvex in cross-section, base rounded, with spongy tissue, margins acutely angled, apex rounded, beaked, glabrous;
    beak not more than 0.25 mm, with abaxial suture, entire, smooth.
    Achenes biconvex, almost filling bodies of perigynia;