Carex sect. Glareosae G. Don in J. C. Loudon (Q176)

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Carex sect. Glareosae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex
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Carex sect. Glareosae G. Don in J. C. Loudon
Carex sect. Glareosae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex

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    taxon/id/Carex sect. Glareosae G. Don
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    Carex sect. Glareosae G. Don
    Carex sect. Glareosae
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Carex sect. Glareosae
    Circumboreal
    high montane regions of North America
    South America
    Eurasia
    Australia
    and New Zealand
    Plants loosely to densely cespitose, rhizomatous (stoloniferous in C. mackenziei).
    Culms brown at base.
    Leaves: basal sheaths fibrous, usually not persisting more than a year;
    blades V-shaped in cross-section when young, glabrous.
    Inflorescences racemose, with (1–) 2–10 (–15) spikes;
    rachis of spikes glabrous;
    proximal bracts scalelike, bristlelike, or inconspicuous, sheathless;
    lateral spikes gynecandrous or pistillate, sessile, without prophylls;
    terminal spikes gynecandrous.
    Proximal pistillate scales with apex obtuse to acute or cuspidate.
    Perigynia ascending or spreading, obscurely to distinctly veined on both faces, stipitate, obovate, ovate, lanceolate, or elliptic, planoconvex in cross-section, 1.5–4 mm, base rounded or truncate, with spongy tissue, margins rounded or acutely angled, apex rounded and beakless or abruptly beaked, smooth or minutely papillose, glabrous;
    beak sometimes inconspicuous, 0.1–0.3 mm, with or without abaxial suture, margins entire or sparsely and minutely serrulate, apex entire or bidentate.
    Achenes biconvex, smaller than bodies of perigynia;