Carex sect. Ovales Kunth (Q312)
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Carex sect. Ovales is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex
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Carex sect. Ovales Kunth
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Carex sect. Ovales is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex
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taxon/id/Carex sect. Ovales Kunth
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Carex sect. Ovales Kunth
Carex sect. Ovales
Kunth
FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
accepted
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Plants usually densely cespitose, rarely colonial, short-rhizomatous.
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Culms brown at base.
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Leaves: basal sheaths somewhat fibrous;
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blades V-shaped in cross-section when young, smooth, sometimes minutely papillose.
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Inflorescences racemose, with 2–20+ spikes, 1–1.5 times as long as wide in fruit;
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proximal bracts scalelike or bristlelike, rarely leaflike, not more than 5 cm, not more than 2 times as long as inflorescences, sheathless;
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lateral spikes gynecandrous or pistillate, sessile, not prophyllate;
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terminal spikes gynecandrous.
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Proximal pistillate scales with apex obtuse to acuminate or awned.
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Perigynia erect to spreading, veined or veinless on both faces, sometimes stipitate, linear to orbiculate, flat to planoconvex, base tapering to rounded, margins winged or rarely narrowly ridged, entire, apex tapering to rounded to beak, smooth or, rarely, papillose;
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beak with abaxial suture, margins entire, apex bidentatate.
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Achenes biconvex, smaller than bodies of perigynia, with short apiculus formed by persistent base of style;
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style deciduous, base not enlarged.
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2+ times as long as inflorescences
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