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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex preslii
|accepted_authority=Steudel
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Syn. Pl. Glumac.
|place=2: 242. 1855
|year=1855
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Ovales;Carex preslii
|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. Ovales]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex preslii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 344, 345, 346
|treatment_page=page 350
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose. <b>Culms</b> 23–56 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: sheath adaxially white-hyaline, summits U-shaped to rounded, often prolonged to 6 mm beyond collar; distal ligules 0.8–2.5(–4) mm; blades (2–)3–4 per fertile culm, 6–30 cm × 1.7–3.6 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> dense or open, green and brown, gold, or brown, 1.4–3 cm × (5–)8–15 mm, stiff, appearing coarse-textured; proximal internode 3–7 mm; 2d internode 1–4 mm; proximal bracts usually aristate, shorter than inflorescences. <b>Spikes</b> 3–7, distant to loosely aggregated, usually individually distinct, narrowly to broadly ovoid, 7–10 × (3–)4.5–7.5 mm, base rounded or attenuate, apex usually acute. <b>Pistillate</b> scales white, gold, red-brown, or chestnut-brown, usually with pale to green midstripe, ovate to broadly ovate, 2.8–3.7 mm, shorter or longer and narrower than perigynia, margin occasionally white, 0.1–0.2(–0.5) mm wide, apex usually acute to acuminate. <b>Perigynia</b> appressed-ascending to ascending-spreading, green or gold, usually green toward beak, contrasting in color with pistillate scales, conspicuously 0–7-veined abaxially, conspicuously 0(–5)-veined adaxially, thin, ovate to broadly ovate, plano-convex or, more often, biconvex, (3.3–)3.5–4.3 × (1.3–)1.5–2 mm, 0.5–0.6(–0.8) mm thick, 2.1–2.7 times as long as wide, margin flat, including wing 0.2–0.4 mm wide, ciliate-serrulate at least on distal body, without metallic sheen; beak gold, gold-brown, red-brown, or brown at tip, flat, ± ciliate-serrulate or cylindric, unwinged, ± entire for 0.6 mm, abaxial suture usually inconspicuous, distance from beak tip to achene 1–2.4 mm. <b>Achenes</b> broadly oblong, ovate, broadly elliptic, or quadrate, 1.5–2 × 1–1.5 mm, 0.4–0.7 mm thick. <b>2n</b> = 80.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Open dry to seasonally dry areas
|elevation=1000–3400 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Yukon;Alaska;Calif.;Idaho;Mont.;Oreg.;Wash.
|discussion=<p><i>Carex preslii</i> has been synonymized with <i>C. pachystachya</i> (A. Cronquist 1969; C. L. Hitchcock and A. Cronquist 1973; A. Cronquist et al. 1972+).</p>
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name=Carex preslii
|author=
|authority=Steudel
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
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|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Open dry to seasonally dry areas
|elevation=1000–3400 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Yukon;Alaska;Calif.;Idaho;Mont.;Oreg.;Wash.
|reference=None
|publication title=Syn. Pl. Glumac.
|publication year=1855
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_605.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Ovales
|species=Carex preslii
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