Carex sect. Dornera
brown at base.
basal sheaths not fibrous;
sheath fronts membranous;
blades V-shaped in cross section when young, 1.5–4 mm wide, glabrous.
a solitary spike;
bracts absent;
spike androgynous.
erect but eventually spreading, proximal somewhat reflexed at maturity, veinless, lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, rounded-trigonous to biconvex, 3–5 mm, base rounded and stipitate, margins rounded, apex tapering to gradually formed beak, somewhat glossy, glabrous;
beak less than 2 mm including teeth, obliquely cleft, sometimes slightly bidentate.
usually trigonous, smaller than bodies of perigynia;
style deciduous.
pistillate scales deciduous before perigyinia, apex obtuse to acute.
(2–)3.
Carex sect. Dornera
Species 5 (2 in the flora).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Plants densely cespitose, without conspicuous rhizomes, tuft-forming; leaf blades involute, 0.25–1.5(–2) mm wide. | C. micropoda |
1. Plants loosely cespitose, with short, stout rhizomes, mat-forming; leaf blades flat to the tip, (1.5–)2–4 mm wide. | C. nigricans |
