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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex subfusca
|accepted_authority=W. Boott in S. Watson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in S. Watson, Bot. California
|place=2: 234. 1880
|year=1880
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex teneriformis
|authority=Mackenzie
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Ovales;Carex subfusca
|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 subfusca]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 332, 343, 344, 345, 346
|treatment_page=page 349
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose. <b>Culms</b> 20–104 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: sheath white-hyaline, summits usually U-shaped, sometimes rounded and prolonged to 3 mm beyond collar; distal ligules 1–3(–6) mm; blades 3–5(–8) per fertile culm, 6–45 cm × 1.2–3(–3.7) mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> open or dense, green to brown, 1.1–3 cm × 5.4–16.3 mm, appearing fine-textured; proximal internode (1.5–)2.5–9.5 mm; 2d internode 1–3(–6) mm; proximal bracts scalelike or bristlelike shorter than inflorescences. <b>Spikes</b> 4–11(–14), densely or loosely aggregated, broadly ovoid to ovoid, 5–11 × 2.7–7.1 mm, base rounded or acute, apex usually rounded. <b>Pistillate</b> scales usually white-hyaline or hyaline gold, occasionally chestnut to dark brown, with pale to green midstripe, ovate to broad-ovate, 2.1–3.5(–3.9) mm, shorter than or ± covering perigynia, margin white, 0–0.2 mm wide, apex obtuse to acuminate. <b>Perigynia</b> ascending to spreading, green, straw colored to light brown, or whitish, conspicuously (0–)2–8(–11)-veined abaxially, conspicuously 0–6-veined adaxially, veins thick, reaching, not extending beyong top of achene, lance-ovate to ovate, plano-convex, 2.4–4(–4.3) × 0.9–1.9 mm, 0.4–0.5(–0.6) mm thick, 2.1–2.7 times as long as wide, margin flat, including wing 0.15–0.3(–0.45) mm wide, ciliate-serrulate at least on distal body; beak green, gold, brown or white-hyaline at tip, flat, ± ciliate-serrulate or cylindric, unwinged, ± entire for 0.4–0.7 mm, abaxial suture usually inconspicuous, distance from beak tip to achene 1.2–2 mm. <b>Achenes</b> elliptic to quadrate, 1–1.6 × 0.7–1.25 mm, (0.3–)0.4–0.5(–0.6) mm thick. <b>2n</b> = 84.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Seasonally moist mountain meadows, along watercourses
|elevation=100–3500 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Idaho;Nev.;N.Mex.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Mexico (Baja California);Pacific Islands (Hawaii).
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex subfusca
|author=
|authority=W. Boott in S. Watson
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex teneriformis
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Seasonally moist mountain meadows, along watercourses
|elevation=100–3500 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Idaho;Nev.;N.Mex.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Mexico (Baja California);Pacific Islands (Hawaii).
|reference=None
|publication title=in S. Watson, Bot. California
|publication year=1880
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Ovales
|species=Carex subfusca
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