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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex basiantha
|accepted_authority=Steudel
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Syn. Pl. Glumac.
|place=2: 232. 1855
|year=1855
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex willdenowii var. pauciflora
|authority=Olney ex L. H. Bailey
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Phyllostachyae;Carex basiantha
|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. Phyllostachyae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex basiantha]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 455, 559
|treatment_page=page 560
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Culms </b>spreading to nodding, (10.7–)18–39 cm, 0.5–0.8 of total plant height. <b>Leaves</b>: basal sheaths pale brown to dark brown; blades green, exceeding culms, 1.4–3.7 mm wide, herbaceous, margins green, smooth or scabrous. <b>Lateral</b> spikes 1–4, basal, on nodding peduncles. <b>Terminal</b> spikes with staminate portion 4–61-flowered, (4–)12.7–25.6 × 0.7–1.4 mm; pistillate portion 2–4(–6)-flowered. <b>Pistillate</b> scales green, sometimes tinged with white or reddish brown, (0.9–)1.2–2.4 mm wide, apex attenuate to green awns; distal scales with hyaline margins 0.3–0.8 mm wide, not more than 1.5 times as wide as and not concealing perigynia, apex acute, awnless. <b>Staminate</b> scales green or tinged with light brown, ovate, 2.2–3.9 × 1.6–2 mm, margins free but enfolding scales above, hyaline, white, apex obtuse, erose. <b>Anthers</b> 0.8–1.5 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> pale green to pale brown, often speckled reddish brown, narrowly ovoid or lance-ovoid, (5.8–)6.2–7.6(–8) × 1.4–2 mm, tightly enveloping achenes, apex gradually tapering; beak (2.5–)2.7–3.7(–4.3) mm, scabrous. <b>Stigmas</b> filiform, flexuous, long, slender, strongly papillose. <b>Achenes</b> brown, oblong, (2.4–)2.6–3(–3.4) × (1.3–)1.5–1.7(–1.9) mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer (mid Mar–mid Jul).
|habitat=Neutral or slightly acidic soils in mesic to wet mesic deciduous forests, usually on lower slopes above flood plains of rivers and streams
|elevation=50–1000 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex basiantha
|author=
|authority=Steudel
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex willdenowii var. pauciflora
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer (mid Mar–mid Jul).
|habitat=Neutral or slightly acidic soils in mesic to wet mesic deciduous forests, usually on lower slopes above flood plains of rivers and streams
|elevation=50–1000 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Syn. Pl. Glumac.
|publication year=1855
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Phyllostachyae
|species=Carex basiantha
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