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|accepted_name=Carex cephaloidea
|accepted_authority=(Dewey) Dewey
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Rep. Herb. Fl. Pl.,
|place=262. 1840
|year=1840
}}
|common_names=Carex céphaloïde
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex muricata var. cephaloidea
|authority=Dewey
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex sparganioides var. cephaloidea
|authority=(Dewey) J. Carey ex A. Gray
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Phaestoglochin;Carex cephaloidea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cyperaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Carex]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Carex sect. Phaestoglochin]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex cephaloidea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 297
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>without conspicuous rhizomes. <b>Culms</b> 30–120 cm, 2.5–4 mm wide basally, 0.7–1 mm wide distally. <b>Leaves</b>: proximal sheaths loose, longitudinally green-and-white-striped and green-and-white-mottled on back, with prominent transverse veins, fronts hyaline, transversely rugose; ligules 3–7 mm, slightly longer than wide; widest leaf blades (4–)5–8 mm wide. <b>Inflorescences</b> with 5–10 spikes, 1.5–4 cm × 8–10 mm; proximal internodes usually not more than 10 mm, 0.7–1.5(–2) times as long as proximal spikes; proximal bracts to 2 cm; spikes with 6–20 ascending to spreading perigynia. <b>Pistillate</b> scales hyaline or pale brown with green midvein, ovate-circular, 1.5–2 × 1.1–1.5 mm, 1/2 length of perigynia, apex subobtuse to acute. <b>Anthers</b> 0.7–1.3 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> green, with narrow wing not more than 0.1 mm wide distally, weakly 4–7-veined abaxially, 3–4.5 × 1.5–2.5 mm, margins serrulate distally; beak 1–1.3 mm, apical teeth 0.2–0.5 mm. <b>Achenes</b> suborbiculate, 1.6–2 × 1.3–1.7 mm. <b>2n</b> = 50.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late spring–early summer.
|habitat=Dry to mesic deciduous and mixed forests and forest margins on neutral or basic soils
|elevation=20–300 m
|distribution=N.B.;Ont.;Que.;Conn.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Ohio;Pa.;Vt.;Wis.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex cephaloidea
|author=
|authority=(Dewey) Dewey
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex sparganioides var. cephaloidea
|basionyms=Carex muricata var. cephaloidea
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late spring–early summer.
|habitat=Dry to mesic deciduous and mixed forests and forest margins on neutral or basic soils
|elevation=20–300 m
|distribution=N.B.;Ont.;Que.;Conn.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Ohio;Pa.;Vt.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Rep. Herb. Fl. Pl.,
|publication year=1840
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Phaestoglochin
|species=Carex cephaloidea
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