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|accepted_name=Carex cephalophora
|accepted_authority=Muhlenberg ex Willdenow
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=4(1): 220. 1805
|year=1805
}}
|common_names=Carex porte-tête
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Phaestoglochin;Carex cephalophora
|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 cephalophora]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 287, 293, 296
|treatment_page=page 295
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>without conspicuous rhizomes. <b>Culms</b> 20–60 cm, 2–3.5 mm wide basally, 0.5–1 mm wide distally. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths tight, green, rarely white spotted, fronts hyaline, slightly thickened at mouth; ligules to 5 mm, longer than wide; widest leaf blades (1.9–)2.5–5 mm wide. <b>Inflorescences</b> forming dense heads, with 3–8 spikes, 0.6–2 cm × 5–10 mm; proximal bracts 1–5 cm; spikes with 4–20 ascending to spreading perigynia. <b>Pistillate</b> scales hyaline with green midvein, ovate, 1–1.8 × 0.8–1.4 mm, body not more than 1/2 length of perigynium, apex acuminate to short-awned. <b>Anthers</b> 0.7–1.3 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> pale green to pale yellow, veinless or to weakly 8-veined abaxially, 2.5–3.2 × 1.4–2 mm, body elliptic to circular, widest at 0.4–0.55 length of body, margins serrulate distally; beak 0.7–1.1 mm, apical teeth 0.3–0.5 mm. <b>Achenes</b> circular, 1 × 1 mm. <b>2n</b> = 48.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late spring–early summer.
|habitat=Dry to wet-mesic deciduous or mixed forests, thickets, rarely open grassy habitats
|elevation=50–500 m
|distribution=Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Mass.;Md.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|discussion=<p>The record of <i>Carex cephalophora</i> from California is referable to <i>C. mesochorea</i>.</p>
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name=Carex cephalophora
|author=
|authority=Muhlenberg ex Willdenow
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late spring–early summer.
|habitat=Dry to wet-mesic deciduous or mixed forests, thickets, rarely open grassy habitats
|elevation=50–500 m
|distribution=Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Mass.;Md.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1805
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_510.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Phaestoglochin
|species=Carex cephalophora
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