Carex sect. Lamprochlaenae (Drejer) L. H. Bailey in J. M. Coulter (Q267)

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Carex sect. Lamprochlaenae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex
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Carex sect. Lamprochlaenae (Drejer) L. H. Bailey in J. M. Coulter
Carex sect. Lamprochlaenae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex

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    taxon/id/Carex sect. Lamprochlaenae (Drejer) L.H. Bailey
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    Carex sect. Lamprochlaenae (Drejer) L.H. Bailey
    Carex sect. Lamprochlaenae
    (Drejer) L.H. Bailey
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Carex sect. Lamprochlaenae
    North America
    Eurasia
    and nw Africa
    Plants densely or loosely cespitose, short to long rhizomatous.
    Culms red or purple at base.
    Leaves: basal sheaths fibrous or not;
    sheaths and larger leaves sometimes septate-nodulose;
    blades V-shaped in cross-section when young, widest leaf-blades 1–2 mm wide, glabrous.
    Inflorescences racemose, with 2–4 (–5) spikes;
    bracts sheathless or short-sheathing, less than 4 mm, scalelike or with short threadlike blade;
    lateral spikes pistillate, subsessile to short-pedunculate, prophyllate;
    terminal spike staminate.
    Proximal pistillate scales white-hyaline or redbrown, apex obtuse to acuminate.
    Perigynia ascending to spreading, veinless or obscurely veined with 2 distinct marginal veins, ovate to obovate, rounded-trigonous in cross-section, base tapering or rounded and shortly stipitate, apex to abrupt beak, glabrous;
    beak 0.3–0.9 mm, orifice entire or shortly bidentate.
    Achenes trigonous, almost as large as bodies of perigynia;
    styles deciduous.