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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex fracta
|accepted_authority=Mackenzie
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Erythea
|place=8: 38. 1922
|year=1922
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Ovales;Carex fracta
|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 fracta]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 360
|treatment_page=page 361
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose. <b>Culms</b> 60–115 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths adaxially green-veined at least in proximal 1/2, Y-shaped white-hyaline band extending at least 10 mm proximal to collar, firm, summits rounded, usually prolonged to 3–9 mm beyond collar; distal ligules (1.5–)3–13 mm; blades 4–5(–6) per fertile culm, 20–45 cm × 4–7 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> proximal branches often bearing more than 1 spike, open or dense, green to pale gold, 3.5–8 cm × 10–16 mm; proximal internode 3–18 mm; 2d internode 3–9 mm; proximal bracts bristlelike, shorter than inflorescences or occasionally leaflike. <b>Spikes</b> 11–35, distant or aggregated, individually distinct or indistinct, lanceoloid to broadly ovoid, 10–18 × 5–7 mm, base acute to attenuate, apex rounded to tapered. <b>Pistillate</b> scales white-hyaline or gold, occasionally tinged brownish or green, with green to gold midstripe, lanceolate or ovate, (2.8–)3.6–4.5 mm, shorter or longer and narrower than perigynia, apex long-acuminate to awned. <b>Perigynia</b> ascending to spreading, green to gold, conspicuously 8–11-veined abaxially, conspicuously 5–8-veined adaxially, ovate, plano-convex, 2.9–4(–4.8) × 1–1.7 mm, 0.5 mm thick, margin flat, including wing 0.1–0.2(–0.3) mm wide, ciliate-serrulate at least distally; beak gold or white at tip, usually cylindric, sometimes falcate, unwinged, ± entire for 0.1–0.5 mm, abaxial suture usually inconspicuous, distance from beak tip to achene 1.3–2(–2.8) mm. <b>Achenes</b> ovate to elliptic, 1.3–1.6 × 0.8–1.2 mm, (0.3–)0.4–0.5 mm thick.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late spring–summer.
|habitat=Montane meadows, open forests, usually moist to dry soils
|elevation=800–3300 m
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.;Wash.
|discussion=<p>A form of <i>Carex fracta</i> has larger perigynia (to 5.2 mm) that are distinctly flattened around the achene. The most extreme examples of the form occur in the San Bernardino Mountains of southern California.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex fracta
|author=
|authority=Mackenzie
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late spring–summer.
|habitat=Montane meadows, open forests, usually moist to dry soils
|elevation=800–3300 m
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.;Wash.
|reference=None
|publication title=Erythea
|publication year=1922
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Ovales
|species=Carex fracta
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