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|accepted_name=Carex austrina
|accepted_authority=Mackenzie
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=34: 151. 1907
|year=1907
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Carex muehlenbergii var. australis
|authority=Olney ex L. H. Bailey
|publication_title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication_place=22: 141. 1886
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Phaestoglochin;Carex austrina
|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. Phaestoglochin]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex austrina]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 287, 288, 293
|treatment_page=page 294
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>without conspicuous rhizomes. <b>Culms</b> 20–90 cm, 1.5–3 mm wide basally, 0.9–1.1 mm wide distally. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths tight, green, fronts hyaline, yellowish and thickened at mouth; ligules to 3 mm, as long as wide; widest leaf blades 2.5–4.5 mm wide, sometimes papillose adaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b> with (3–)5–10 spikes, 1.5–3.5 cm × 8–15 mm; proximal internodes equaling or shorter than proximal spikes; proximal bracts 1–5 cm; spikes with 8–20 ascending or spreading perigynia. <b>Pistillate</b> scales hyaline or brown with green, 3-veined center, ovate, (2.4–)3–4.3 × (1–)1.6–3 mm, body slightly shorter to longer than perigynium and as wide, apex awned to 1.5–3.5(–4) mm. <b>Anthers</b> 2.2–2.5 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> pale green, pale yellow, or pale brown, 9–15-veined abaxially, 3.5–5 × 2.2–3 mm, margins serrulate distally; beak 0.8–1.2 mm, apical teeth 0.4–0.6 mm. <b>Achenes</b> suborbiculate, 1.9–2.5 × 1.5–2 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late spring–early summer.
|habitat=Dry prairies, forests, roadside ditches, often in calcareous soils
|elevation=100–500 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;Okla.;Tenn.;Tex.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex austrina
|author=
|authority=Mackenzie
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Carex muehlenbergii var. australis
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late spring–early summer.
|habitat=Dry prairies, forests, roadside ditches, often in calcareous soils
|elevation=100–500 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;Okla.;Tenn.;Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1907
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Phaestoglochin
|species=Carex austrina
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