Carex sect. Rupestres (Tuckerman) Meinschausen (Q534)

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Carex sect. Rupestres is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex
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Carex sect. Rupestres (Tuckerman) Meinschausen
Carex sect. Rupestres is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex

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    taxon/id/Carex sect. Rupestres (Tuckerman) Meinschausen
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    Carex sect. Rupestres (Tuckerman) Meinschausen
    Carex sect. Rupestres
    (Tuckerman) Meinschausen
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Carex sect. Rupestres
    North America
    Eurasia
    Plants loosely cespitose, long-rhizomatous.
    Culms red-purple at base.
    Leaves: basal sheaths not fibrous;
    sheath fronts, not red dotted, membranous;
    blades V-shaped in cross-section when young, glabrous, basal circinnate distally.
    Inflorescence a single spike;
    spike androgynous.
    Proximal pistillate scales less than 10 mm, apex acute or obtuse, sometimes mucronate.
    Perigynia ascending, pale yellowbrown with dark tip, veinless or obscurely veined with 2 prominent marginal veins, narrowly obovate, trigonous in cross-section, base tapering, apex to abrupt beak, glabrous;
    beak 0.2–0.6 mm, orifice truncate.
    Achenes trigonous, almost as large as bodies of perigynia;