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|accepted_name=Carex molestiformis
|accepted_authority=Reznicek & P. E. Rothrock
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Contr. Univ. Michigan Herb.
|place=21: 300, figs. 1, 2.3. 1997
|year=1997
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Ovales;Carex molestiformis
|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 molestiformis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 340, 370
|treatment_page=page 373
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>cespitose; rhizomes appearing elongate only in old clumps. <b>Culms</b> 25–120 cm; vegetative culms few, inconspicuous, usually fewer than 15 leaves, not strikingly 3-ranked. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths adaxially white-hyaline, summits U-shaped or truncate and reaching to 1.5 mm beyond collar, smooth; distal ligules 1.5–2.8 mm; blades 3–5 per fertile culm, 9–35 cm × 1.7–3.8 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> congested or somewhat open, green to brown, 1.4–2.7(–3.4) cm × 7–16 mm; proximal internode 3–9 mm; 2d internode 3–8 mm; proximal bracts scalelike, bristle tips shorter than inflorescences. <b>Spikes</b> 2–5, distant, distinct, globose to ovoid, 10–35-flowered, 7–12 × 5–10 mm, base rounded or tapered, apex rounded; terminal spike usually lacking conspicuous staminate base. <b>Pistillate</b> scales yellowish brown, lance-ovate, 2.9–4 mm, 0.7–1.7 mm shorter than perigynium or reaching base or sometimes middle of perignyium beak, margins pale, apex acute or obtuse. <b>Perigynia</b> (10–)15–40(–45) per spike, ascending, light greenish brown to brown with pale margin, conspicuously 6-veined or more abaxially, 4–6-veined adaxially, broadly ovate to orbiculate, plano-convex, 4–5.4 × 2.4–3.4 mm, 0.5–0.6 mm thick, margin flat, including wing 0.3–0.8 mm wide, smooth; beak pale green or brown at tip, flat, 0.7–1.6(–1.8) mm, ciliate-serrulate, abaxial suture with white or hyaline golden brown margin, distance from beak tip to achene 1.7–2.6(–2.9) mm. <b>Achenes</b> broadly ovate to orbiculate, 1.6–2 × 1.4–1.8 mm, 0.5–0.6 mm thick. <b>2n</b> = 74.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting early summer.
|habitat=Stream flood plains, bottomlands, stream banks, roadsides
|elevation=100–400 m
|distribution=Ark.;Ky.;Mo.;Okla.;Tenn.;Va.
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|references=
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name=Carex molestiformis
|author=
|authority=Reznicek & P. E. Rothrock
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting early summer.
|habitat=Stream flood plains, bottomlands, stream banks, roadsides
|elevation=100–400 m
|distribution=Ark.;Ky.;Mo.;Okla.;Tenn.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Contr. Univ. Michigan Herb.
|publication year=1997
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Ovales
|species=Carex molestiformis
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