Carex sect. Albae (Ascherson & Graebner) Kükenthal in H. G. A. Engler (Q75)

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Carex sect. Albae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex
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Carex sect. Albae (Ascherson & Graebner) Kükenthal in H. G. A. Engler
Carex sect. Albae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex

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    taxon/id/Carex sect. Albae (Ascherson & Graebner) Kükenthal
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    Carex sect. Albae (Ascherson & Graebner) Kükenthal
    Carex sect. Albae
    (Ascherson & Graebner) Kükenthal
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    (Ascherson & Graebner) Kükenthal
    Cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere
    Plants cespitose, long-rhizomatous.
    Culms brown at base.
    Leaves: basal sheaths not fibrous;
    blades V-shaped in cross-section when young, threadlike, not more than 1 mm wide, glabrous.
    Inflorescences racemose, with 3–5 spikes;
    bracts bladeless, sheathing;
    lateral spikes pistillate, pedunculate, prophyllate;
    terminal spikes staminate.
    Proximal pistillate scales with apex subacute to subobtuse.
    Perigynia erect, weakly veined on faces, with 2 strong marginal veins, ellipsoid-ovoid, trigonous, base tapering, apex tapering to abrupt beak, glabrous;
    beak 0.2–0.7 mm, orifice subentire.
    Achenes trigonous, almost as large as bodies of perigynia;