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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex latebracteata
|accepted_authority=Waterfall
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Rhodora
|place=56: 23. 1954
|year=1954
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Phyllostachyae;Carex latebracteata
|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 latebracteata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 558, 560
|treatment_page=page 563
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Culms </b>17–31 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: basal sheaths pale brown to orange-brown; blades pale green, conspicuously glaucous, widest leaves (4.1–)6–15 mm wide, equaling stems, coriaceous, margins hyaline, white, scabrous. <b>Terminal</b> spikes with staminate portion 2–5-flowered, 3.2–4 × 1.1–2.8 mm; pistillate portion 3–14-flowered. <b>Lateral</b> spikes 0. <b>Pistillate</b> scales green; proximal scales with apex acuminate; distal scales ovate, apex obtuse. <b>Staminate</b> scales green, ovate, 2.5–3.4 × 0.9–1.5 mm, margins connate at base, enfolding scales above, hyaline, white, apex obtuse. <b>Anthers</b> 1.6–2.2 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> tightly enveloping achenes, pale green, ellipsoid, 6.7–7.9 × 2–2.7 mm, apex abruptly contracted into beak; beak 2.7–4 mm, smooth. <b>Achenes</b> brown, obovoid to obpyriform, 2.8–3 × 2–2.5 mm. <b>Stigmas</b> clavate, convolute, minutely papillose. <b>2n</b> = 98.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring (late Apr–late May).
|habitat=Steep, shaded slopes in rich, mesic to dry-mesic hardwood forests
|distribution=Ark.;Okla.
|discussion=<p><i>Carex latebracteata</i> is endemic to the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex latebracteata
|author=
|authority=Waterfall
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring (late Apr–late May).
|habitat=Steep, shaded slopes in rich, mesic to dry-mesic hardwood forests
|distribution=Ark.;Okla.
|reference=None
|publication title=Rhodora
|publication year=1954
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Phyllostachyae
|species=Carex latebracteata
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