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|accepted_name=Carex alopecoidea
|accepted_authority=Tuckerman
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Enum. Meth. Caric.,
|place=18. 1843
|year=1843
}}
|common_names=Carex alopécoïde
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Vulpinae;Carex alopecoidea
|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. Vulpinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex alopecoidea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 273, 274
|treatment_page=page 275
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>with basal sheaths of previous year persistent as linear fibers. <b>Culms</b> to 80 cm × 4 mm, scabrous. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths all with blades, fronts smooth, red spotted, indistinctly linearly veined, apex hyaline, colorless, fragile, convex, entire; ligules rounded, 5 mm, free limb to 0.5 mm; blades dark green, not epistomic, to 60 cm × 7 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> densely spicate, elongated, cylindric, with 8–12 branches, 2–4 × 1.5 cm; proximal internode to 0.5 mm; proximal bracts setaceous, apparent. <b>Scales</b> coppery with hyaline margins. <b>Perigynia</b> pale brown, coppery distally, faintly 3–5-veined or veinless abaxially, veinless adaxially, to 4 × 1.7 mm, base not distended proximally, rounded; stipe to 0.2 mm; beak to 2 mm, serrulate. <b>Achenes</b> circular, 1.5 × 1.3 mm; stalk to 0.15 mm; persistent style base cylindric. <b>2n</b> = 68.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting Jul.
|habitat=Seasonally saturated soils in wet meadows, openings in alluvial woods, stream banks, particularly on calcareous substrates
|elevation=0–1500 m
|distribution=Man.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.Dak.;Ohio;Pa.;Vt.;Wis.
|discussion=<p>Morphologically <i>Carex alopecoidea</i> is most similar to <i>C. conjuncta</i>; it differs in the smooth sheath fronts and the abaxial veins faint or absent.</p>
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name=Carex alopecoidea
|author=
|authority=Tuckerman
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting Jul.
|habitat=Seasonally saturated soils in wet meadows, openings in alluvial woods, stream banks, particularly on calcareous substrates
|elevation=0–1500 m
|distribution=Man.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.Dak.;Ohio;Pa.;Vt.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Enum. Meth. Caric.,
|publication year=1843
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_462.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Vulpinae
|species=Carex alopecoidea
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