Carex sect. Foetidae (Tuckerman ex L. H. Bailey) Kükenthal in H. G. A. Engler (Q173)

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Carex sect. Foetidae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex
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Carex sect. Foetidae (Tuckerman ex L. H. Bailey) Kükenthal in H. G. A. Engler
Carex sect. Foetidae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex

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    taxon/id/Carex sect. Foetidae (Tuckerman ex L.H. Bailey) Kükenthal
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    Carex sect. Foetidae (Tuckerman ex L.H. Bailey) Kükenthal
    Carex sect. Foetidae
    (Tuckerman ex L.H. Bailey) Kükenthal
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    (Tuckerman ex L.H. Bailey) Kükenthal
    North America
    South America
    Eurasia
    Plants colonial or loosely cespitose, short-rhizomatous.
    Culms brown at base.
    Leaves: basal sheaths sometimes fibrous;
    blades V-shaped in cross-section when young, sometimes involute, glabrous.
    Inflorescences racemose, with (1–) 3–20 spikes, globose to ovoid-globose;
    bracts absent or scalelike, sheathless;
    lateral spikes androgynous, often very condensed and individually indistinct, sessile, without prophylls;
    terminal spike androgynous.
    Proximal pistillate scales with apex subobtuse, acute or shortly awned.
    Perigynia erect to spreading, faces veined or veinless, sessile to stipitate, ovate to narrowly ovate, planoconvex in cross-section, base rounded, margins acutely angled, apex tapering to beak, glabrous;
    beak 0.5–1.5 mm, with abaxial suture, margins often serrulate, apex obliquely cleft or slightly bidentate.
    Achenes biconvex, smaller than bodies of perigynia;