Carex sect. Phaestoglochin Dumortier (Q467)

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Carex sect. Phaestoglochin is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex
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Carex sect. Phaestoglochin Dumortier
Carex sect. Phaestoglochin is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex

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    taxon/id/Carex sect. Phaestoglochin Dumortier
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    Carex sect. Phaestoglochin Dumortier
    Carex sect. Phaestoglochin
    Dumortier
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Carex sect. Phaestoglochin
    Mainly in the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere
    Plants cespitose, short-rhizomatous or inconspicuously rhizomatous.
    Culms: bases brown, rarely red tinged.
    Leaves: basal sheaths fibrous;
    blades V-shaped in cross-section when young, glabrous.
    Inflorescences racemose or, rarely, 1–2 branched proximally, with 3–15 spikes;
    proximal bracts filiform or leaflike, sheathless;
    lateral spikes androgynous or pistillate, sessile, without prophylls;
    terminal spike androgynous.
    Proximal pistillate scales greenish hyaline with 1-veined center, apex obtuse to acuminate or awned.
    Perigynia ascending or spreading, veined or not on both faces, stipitate, lanceolate to broadly ovate or obovate, planoconvex in cross-section, widest above base, base rounded, with spongy tissue, margins acutely angled, apex tapering, often abruptly beaked, glabrous;
    beak 0.3–3 mm, with abaxial suture, bidentate.
    Achenes biconvex, smaller than bodies of perigynia;