Carex sect. Capituligerae Kükenthal (Q96)

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Carex sect. Capituligerae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex
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Carex sect. Capituligerae Kükenthal
Carex sect. Capituligerae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Carex

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    taxon/id/Carex sect. Capituligerae Kükenthal
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    Carex sect. Capituligerae Kükenthal
    Carex sect. Capituligerae
    Kükenthal
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
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    Carex sect. Capituligerae
    North America and Eurasia with austral disjuncts or vicariants
    Plants cespitose, short-rhizomatous.
    Culms red-purple at base.
    Leaves: basal sheaths not or slightly fibrous;
    blades filiform, glabrous.
    Inflorescence a single spike;
    spike androgynous.
    Proximal pistillate scales with apex obtuse.
    Perigynia eventually spreading, adaxial face veinless, abaxial face weakly few-veined, narrowly to broadly ovate, planoconvex in cross-section, 2–4 (–4.5) mm, base tapering, margins acutely angled, apex tapering or abruptly beaked, not glossy, glabrous;
    beak 0.3–1 mm, with abaxial suture, entire or bidentate.
    Achenes biconvex, smaller than bodies of perigynia;