Carex sect. Firmiculmes (Kükenthal) Mackenzie in N. L. Britton et al. (Q171)

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

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    taxon/id/Carex sect. Firmiculmes (Kükenthal) Mackenzie
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    Carex sect. Firmiculmes (Kükenthal) Mackenzie
    Carex sect. Firmiculmes
    (Kükenthal) Mackenzie
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Carex sect. Firmiculmes
    w North America
    Plants cespitose or not, short to long rhizomatous, sometimes inconspicuously rhizomatous.
    Culms brown or red brown at base.
    Leaves: basal sheaths fibrous;
    blades V-shaped in cross-section when young, glabrous.
    spike androgynous, with not more than 15 perigynia, lax.
    Proximal pistillate scales less than 10 mm, apex short or long-awned.
    Perigynia ascending, veinless or weakly veined with 2 strong marginal veins, stipitate, narrowly obovate, trigonous in cross-section, 4.7–8.4 mm, 2–3 times as long as wide, base tapering, with spongy tissue, apex rounded to beak, glabrous;
    Achenes trigonous, 4–5 mm, almost as large as bodies of perigynia;