Carex sect. Phyllostachyae Tuckerman ex Kükenthal in H. G. A. Engler (Q491)

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Carex sect. Phyllostachyae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex
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Carex sect. Phyllostachyae Tuckerman ex Kükenthal in H. G. A. Engler
Carex sect. Phyllostachyae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex

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    taxon/id/Carex sect. Phyllostachyae Tuckerman ex Kükenthal
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    Carex sect. Phyllostachyae Tuckerman ex Kükenthal
    Carex sect. Phyllostachyae
    Tuckerman ex Kükenthal
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Carex sect. Phyllostachyae
    North America
    Plants cespitose, short-rhizomatous.
    Culms brown at base, shorter than leaves.
    Leaves: basal sheaths not fibrous;
    sheaths and larger leaves sometimes septate-nodulose;
    blades V-shaped in cross-section when young, widest at least 2 mm wide, glabrous or papillose.
    Inflorescences 1 spike or racemose, to 5 spikes;
    lateral spikes pistillate or androgynous, sometimes some basal;
    terminal spike androgynous.
    Proximal pistillate scales green, usually 10+ mm, leaflike.
    Perigynia erect, veinless or obscurely veined, margins prominently 2-veined, stipitate, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, rounded-trigonous to terete, base tapering, apex tapering, beaked, glabrous;
    beak flattened-triangular, 0.5–6.4 mm, mostly 2+ mm, at least as long as body, entire at orifice.
    Achenes trigonous, as large as or smaller than bodies of perigynia;
    style deciduous, slightly dilated at base.