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|accepted_name=Carex gynodynama
|accepted_authority=Olney
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|place=7: 394. 1868
|year=1868
}}
|common_names=Olney’s hairy sedge
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Hymenochlaenae;Carex gynodynama
|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. Hymenochlaenae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex gynodynama]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 463, 468
|treatment_page=page 472
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose. <b>Culms</b> reddish brown to dark maroon at base; flowering stems 20–70 cm, much longer than leaves at maturity, 1–1.7 mm thick, glabrous or sparsely pilose. <b>Leaves</b>: basal sheaths reddish brown, bladeless, pilose; others grading from dark red to green on back, tan-hyaline on front, reddish brown dotted and usually pubescent at apex; blades flat, 3–12 mm wide, usually pilose, more densely so abaxially, margins ciliate. <b>Inflorescences</b>: peduncles of lateral spikes, when present, less than 10 mm, often pubescent; proximal bracts usually shorter than inflorescence; sheaths 5–50 mm; blades 1.2–2 mm wide. <b>Lateral</b> spikes 2–5, 1 per node, usually crowded toward apex and overlapping staminate spike, erect, sessile or pedunculate, pistillate with 20–40 perigynia attached less than 1 mm apart, cylindric, 12–40 × 4–11 mm. <b>Terminal</b> spike staminate, rarely gynecandrous, sessile or very short-pedunculate, 8–30 × 2–5.5 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> scales reddish brown with narrow white-hyaline margins and green midrib, broadly ovate, shorter than mature perigynia, apex obtuse to short-cuspidate, often pubescent on midrib and awn, ciliate distally. <b>Perigynia</b> pale green, blotched with dark maroon at base, dark maroon-brown distally, 2-ribbed and finely veined with to 20 veins, most conspicuous near base, loosely enveloping achene, ellipsoid, 3.7–5.3 × 1–2.2 mm, membranous, base acute, apex narrowing to beak, body covered with long, appressed to spreading hairs; beak bidentate, 1 mm. <b>Achenes</b> substipitate, 2–2.6 × 1.2–1.7 mm. <b>2n</b> = 50, 52.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late spring–early summer.
|habitat=Seeps, stream banks, roadside ditches, wet meadows and slopes, coastal prairies, mixed evergreen forest along the Pacific Coast
|elevation=0–600 m
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.
|discussion=<p>Sporadic sterile hybrids between <i>Carex gynodynama</i> and <i>C. mendocinensis</i> are well documented. A reported hybrid with <i>C. hendersonii</i> needs further study to confirm parentage.</p>
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name=Carex gynodynama
|author=
|authority=Olney
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late spring–early summer.
|habitat=Seeps, stream banks, roadside ditches, wet meadows and slopes, coastal prairies, mixed evergreen forest along the Pacific Coast
|elevation=0–600 m
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication year=1868
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Hymenochlaenae
|species=Carex gynodynama
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