Carex sect. Scirpinae (Tuckerman) Kükenthal in H. G. A. Engler (Q536)

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Carex sect. Scirpinae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex
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Carex sect. Scirpinae (Tuckerman) Kükenthal in H. G. A. Engler
Carex sect. Scirpinae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex

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    taxon/id/Carex sect. Scirpinae (Tuckerman) Kükenthal
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    Carex sect. Scirpinae (Tuckerman) Kükenthal
    Carex sect. Scirpinae
    (Tuckerman) Kükenthal
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Carex sect. Scirpinae
    w and n North America
    Europe (Norway)
    and Asia
    Plants usually cespitose, short to long rhizomatous, sometimes inconspicuously rhizomatous.
    Culms redbrown at base.
    Leaves: basal sheaths fibrous or not, persistent sheaths usually absent;
    blades V-shaped in cross-section when young, glabrous or puberulent.
    bractless or bract filiform, sheathless, prophyllate;
    spikes unisexual, mostly staminate and pistillate spikes on different plants.
    Proximal pistillate scales with apex obtuse to acute, ciliate.
    Perigynia erect, veinless or obscurely veined, with 2 prominent marginal veins, stipitate, lanceolate to ovate or obovate, rounded-trigonous in cross-section, less than 10 mm, base tapering or rounded, apex tapering or rounded to beak, pubescent;
    beak 0.1–0.5 mm, emarginate or shortly bidentate, teeth less than 0.8 mm.
    Stigmas (2–) 3 (–4).
    Achenes usually trigonous, smaller than bodies of perigynia;