Carex sect. Paniceae G. Don in J. C. Loudon (Q378)

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

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    taxon/id/Carex sect. Paniceae G. Don
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    Carex sect. Paniceae G. Don
    Carex sect. Paniceae
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Temperate and cooler latitudes of North America and Eurasia
    mountains of Central America and South America
    Plants loosely cespitose or, usually, colonial, rhizomatous.
    Culms brown or purple at base.
    Leaves: basal sheaths sometimes fibrous;
    blades M-shaped in cross-section when young, adaxial side of blades with 2 lateral-veins more prominent than midvein, not septate-nodulose, widest leaf-blade usually less than 5 mm wide, papillose on abaxial surface, glabrous.
    Inflorescences racemose, with 2–4 (–5) spikes;
    proximal bracts leaflike, long-sheathing, sheath more than 4 mm, longer than diameter of stem;
    lateral spikes pistillate, pedunculate, prophyllate;
    terminal spike staminate, solitary.
    Proximal pistillate scales with apex obtuse to short-awned.
    Perigynia ascending to spreading, yellowbrown to dark-brown when mature, distinctly or indistinctly veined, with 2, strong, marginal veins, sessile, ovate to obovate, obtusely trigonous to circular in cross-section, base tapering, apex tapering or rounded, beaked or not, smooth or minutely papillose, glabrous;
    beak 0–1.8 (–2.2) mm, orifice entire or bidentate.
    Achenes trigonous, smaller than bodies of perigynia;