Flora of North America species comparison

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Carex sect. Leptocephalae
Habit Plants cespitose, short-rhizomatous.
Culms

brown at base.
Leaves

basal sheaths not fibrous;

sheath fronts membranous;

blades V-shaped in cross section when young, glabrous.
Inflorescence

1 spike per culm;

bracts absent;

spike androgynous.
Perigynia

appressed-ascending, weakly veined, substipitate, elliptic to narrowly oblong, rounded- or flattened-trigonous in cross section, base long tapering, apex rounded or truncate, orifice entire or emarginate, glabrous;

beak absent.
Achenes

obtusely to sharply trigonous, smaller than bodies of perigynia;

style deciduous.
Proximal

pistillate scales less than 10 mm, apex obtuse to acute or short-awned.
Stigmas

3.

Carex sect. Leptocephalae
Distribution
North America; West Indies
Discussion

Species 1.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 23. Author: Theodore S. Cochrane.
Parent taxa Cyperaceae > Carex
Subordinate taxa
Synonyms C. section Polytrichoideae
Name authority L. H. Bailey: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 22: 131. (1886)
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