Carex sect. Capituligerae
red-purple at base.
basal sheaths not or slightly fibrous;
sheath fronts membranous;
blades filiform, glabrous.
a single spike;
bracts absent;
spike androgynous.
eventually spreading, adaxial face veinless, abaxial face weakly few-veined, narrowly to broadly ovate, plano-convex 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.
biconvex, smaller than bodies of perigynia;
style deciduous.
pistillate scales with apex obtuse.
2.
Carex sect. Capituligerae
North America and Eurasia with austral disjuncts or vicariants
Species 1–3 (1 in the flora).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
