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|accepted_name=Carex tahoensis
|accepted_authority=Smiley
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot.
|place=9: 119. 1921
|year=1921
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex eastwoodiana
|authority=Stacey
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Ovales;Carex tahoensis
|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 tahoensis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 344, 354, 356, 358
|treatment_page=page 355
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose. <b>Culms</b> 15–45 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths adaxially white-hyaline, summits usually U-shaped; distal ligules 0.8–1.5 mm; blades 3–5 per fertile culm, occasionally folded, if not folded, margins revolute, 5–10 cm × 1.5–2.5(–3) mm, thick, tough. <b>Inflorescences</b> dense to ± open, whitish, gold, or brown, (1.5–)2–3(–3.7) cm × 6–12 mm; proximal internode 4–11 mm; 2d internode 2.5–7 mm; proximal bracts scalelike or bristlelike, shorter than inflorescences. <b>Spikes</b> 4–6, distant, distinct, lanceloid to ovoid, 10–15 × 4–6 mm, base tapered to attenuate, apex rounded to acute. <b>Pistillate</b> scales red-brown, with straw colored to tan midstripe, usually ovate, to 4–5 mm, equaling, covering at least perigynium bodies, margin white, 0.2–0.6 mm wide, apex obtuse to short-awned. <b>Perigynia</b> appressed or appressed-ascending, green, gold, or coppery, conspicuously 7–14-veined abaxially, conspicuously 3–8-veined adaxially, lanceolate or ovate to oblanceolate or obovate, plano-convex, (3.7–)4.5–6 × 1.5–2.6 mm, 0.5–0.7(–0.9) mm thick, margin flat, including wing 0.2–0.4(–0.5) mm wide; beak brown to gold or reddish, often white-hyaline at tip, ± cylindric, ± ciliate-serrulate for distal 0.2–0.7 mm, abaxial suture with white margin, or sometimes inconspicuous, distance from beak tip to achene (0.6–)1–2 mm. <b>Achenes</b> lanceolate to ovate or obovate, 1.9–2.4 × 1.2–1.6 mm, 0.5–0.7 mm thick.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer–early fall.
|habitat=Grasslands, sagebrush slopes, open rocky and sandy slopes, subalpine and alpine meadows
|elevation=600–3700 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Yukon;Calif.;Colo.;Mont.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
|discussion=<p><i>Carex tahoensis</i> resembles <i>C. phaeocephala</i> somewhat, but often occurs at lower elevations, has longer achenes, and more coriaceous perigynia that are clearly veined adaxially.</p><!--
--><p><i>Carex tahoensis</i> was orginally described as a California endemic, but is much more widespread. The precise distribution is as yet unclear because of confusion with <i>C. phaeocephala</i> and <i>C. petasata</i>. Many reports of <i>C. xerantica</i> from the Rocky Mountain region are based on this species.</p>
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name=Carex tahoensis
|author=
|authority=Smiley
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex eastwoodiana
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer–early fall.
|habitat=Grasslands, sagebrush slopes, open rocky and sandy slopes, subalpine and alpine meadows
|elevation=600–3700 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Yukon;Calif.;Colo.;Mont.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot.
|publication year=1921
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Ovales
|species=Carex tahoensis
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