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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex illota
|accepted_authority=L. H. Bailey
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mem. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=1: 15. 1889
|year=1889
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Ovales;Carex illota
|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. Ovales]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex illota]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 277, 332, 340
|treatment_page=page 346
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose. <b>Culms</b> 15–38 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: sheath summits white-hyaline, green ribbed, U-shaped, occasionally prolonged to 4 mm distal to collar; distal ligules 1–3(–3.5) mm; blades 2–4 per fertile culm, 4.5–18 cm × 1.5–2.5 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> nodding, dense, dark or medium brown, 1–1.2 cm × 5.5–10 mm; proximal internode 1.3–3 mm; 2d internode 0.6–1.5 mm; proximal bracts scalelike to bristlelike. <b>Spikes</b> 3–6, usually individually indistinct, ovoid to broadly ovoid, 4.5–6.5 × 2.5–5.5 mm, base and apex acute to rounded; terminal spike without conspicuous staminate base. <b>Pistillate</b> scales dark brown, usually with pale or green midstripe, ovate, 1.5–2.5(–3.5) mm, usually shorter, narrower than perigynia, margin occasionally hyaline gold, to 0.4 mm wide, apex obtuse or acute. <b>Perigynia</b> ascending-spreading to spreading, gold to dark brown, conspicuously 0–7-veined abaxially, conspicuously 0–4-veined adaxially, ovate, plano-convex, 2.6–3.2 × 0.9–1.3 mm, 0.5–0.65 mm thick, margin unwinged, pithlike tissue usually present in proximal perigynia walls; beak medium or dark brown at tip, often with white-hyaline, cylindric to somewhat flat, abaxial suture with conspicuous white margin, distance from beak tip to achene 1.2–1.6 mm, entire. <b>Achenes</b> ovate to obovate, 1.2–1.5 × 0.8–1 mm, 0.4–0.5 mm thick. <b>2n</b> = 64</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Marshes, bogs, wet meadows
|elevation=2100–3700 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
|discussion=<p><i>Carex illota</i> is unlike all other members of sect. Ovales in having perigynia lacking wings and margins consistently entire from perigynia base to beak tip.</p>
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name=Carex illota
|author=
|authority=L. H. Bailey
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Marshes, bogs, wet meadows
|elevation=2100–3700 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Mem. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1889
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Ovales
|species=Carex illota
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