Carex sect. Multiflorae (J. Carey) Kükenthal in H. G. A. Engler (Q304)

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Carex sect. Multiflorae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex
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Carex sect. Multiflorae (J. Carey) Kükenthal in H. G. A. Engler
Carex sect. Multiflorae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex

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    taxon/id/Carex sect. Multiflorae (J. Carey) Kükenthal
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    Carex sect. Multiflorae (J. Carey) Kükenthal
    Carex sect. Multiflorae
    (J. Carey) Kükenthal
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Carex sect. Multiflorae
    Mainly North America
    Mexico
    to Europe and New Zealand
    Plants loosely cespitose, sometimes long-rhizomatous.
    Culms brown at base, usually not more than 1 mm wide distally.
    Leaves: basal sheaths fibrous;
    blades V-shaped in cross-section when young, glabrous.
    Inflorescences usually paniculate, usually condensed, with 8–20+ spikes, usually more than 15 spikes;
    proximal bracts filiform, sheathless;
    spikes androgynous, rarely also with some staminate flowers proximally or pistillate, sessile, prophylls absent.
    Proximal pistillate scales yellow or brown, sometimes with hyaline margins and 3-veined center, apex obtuse, at least distally, to awned.
    Perigynia ascending or eventually spreading, veined abaxially, veined or veinless adaxially, stipitate, lanceolate to broadly ovate, planoconvex in cross-section, base rounded or subcordate, with spongy tissue, margins acutely angled, apex tapering or abruptly contracted to beak, glabrous;
    beak bidentate, with abaxial suture.
    Achenes biconvex, smaller than bodies of perigynia;