Carex sect. Filifoliae (Tuckerman) Mackenzie in N. L. Britton et al. (Q168)

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

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    taxon/id/Carex sect. Filifoliae (Tuckerman) Mackenzie
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    Carex sect. Filifoliae (Tuckerman) Mackenzie
    Carex sect. Filifoliae
    (Tuckerman) Mackenzie
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Carex sect. Filifoliae
    North America
    Mexico
    Plants cespitose, short-rhizomatous.
    Culms brown at base.
    Leaves: basal sheaths fibrous;
    blades filiform or V-shaped in cross-section when young, glabrous.
    Inflorescences a single spike;
    spike androgynous.
    Proximal pistillate scales with apex obtuse or mucronate.
    Perigynia erect or ascending, veinless, or with 2 prominent marginal veins, obovate, ovate, or elliptic, rounded-trigonous in cross-section, base ± tapering or rounded, apex rounded or truncate, to abrupt beak or not, puberulent distally;
    beak 0.2–1 mm, orifice truncate.
    Achenes trigonous, almost as large as bodies of perigynia;