Carex sect. Nardinae (Tuckerman) Mackenzie in N. L. Britton et al. (Q308)

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

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    taxon/id/Carex sect. Nardinae (Tuckerman) Mackenzie
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    Carex sect. Nardinae (Tuckerman) Mackenzie
    Carex sect. Nardinae
    (Tuckerman) Mackenzie
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    North America
    Eurasia
    Plants cespitose, short-rhizomatous.
    Culms yellowbrown at base.
    Leaves: basal sheaths not or slightly fibrous, long-persistent;
    blades filiform, glabrous.
    Inflorescence a single spike;
    spike androgynous.
    Pistillate scales less than 10 mm, apex obtuse to subacute.
    Perigynia erect or ascending, obscurely veined, substipitate, obovate or elliptic, planoconvex, 3–5 mm, 1.5–2.5 times as long as wide, base ± tapering, margins acutely angled, apex gradually or abruptly beaked, glabrous;
    beak 0.2–5 mm, with abaxial suture, emarginate.
    Stigmas 2 (–3).
    Achenes biconvex or, occasionally, trigonous, smaller than the bodies of perigynia;