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|accepted_name=Carex lyngbyei
|accepted_authority=Hornemann in G. C. Oeder et al.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in G. C. Oeder et al., Fl. Dan.
|place=11(32): 6, plate 1888. 1827
|year=1827
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex cryptocarpa
|authority=C. A. Meyer
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|name=Carex lyngbyei var. cryptocarpa
|authority=(C. A. Meyer) Hultén
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex lyngbyei var. robusta
|authority=(L. H. Bailey) Cronquist
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex salina var. robusta
|authority=L. H. Bailey
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Phacocystis;Carex lyngbyei
|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. Phacocystis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex lyngbyei]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 380, 382, 384, 385, 398
|treatment_page=page 383
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>not cespitose. <b>Culms</b> obtusely or acutely angled, 25–130 cm, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b>: basal sheaths red-brown; sheaths of proximal leaves glabrous, fronts lacking spots and veins, apex U-shaped; blades hypostomic, 3–8 mm wide, abaxially papillose. <b>Proximal</b> bract longer than inflorescence, 3–6 mm wide. <b>Spikes</b> usually pendent; staminate 2–3; pistillate 2–4; proximal pistillate spike 1.8–5 cm × 5–7 mm, base obtuse. <b>Pistillate</b> scales red-brown to dark purple-brown, longer than perigynia, apex acuminate, awnless. <b>Perigynia</b> divergent, yellow-brown with pale brown spots on apical 1/2, 5–7-veined on each face, somewhat inflated, loosely enclosing achenes, 2.5–3.5 × 1.6–2.5 mm, leathery, dull, base with stipe to 0.5 mm, apex obtuse or rounded, papillose; beak thickened, 0.1–0.3 mm. <b>Achenes</b> constricted on 1 or both margins, apex rounded; style base straight. <b>2n</b> = 68, 70, 72.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Coastal salt marshes, brackish marshes
|elevation=0–10 m
|distribution=Greenland;B.C.;Alaska;Calif.;Oreg.;Wash.;Europe (Iceland).
|discussion=<p><i>Carex lyngbyei</i> is the common sedge of the Pacific coastal salt marshes. It may easily be distinguished from sympatric species by the large, pendent, pedunculate spikes and the leathery, yellow-brown perigynia.</p><!--
--><p>Although the species is also reported to occur in Japan and Korea, some Asian collections show significant morphologic and habitat differences from the North American plants. It is probably most closely related to <i>Carex paleacea</i> and to the South American C. darwinii, and differs from <i>C. paleacea</i> primarily by having acute, rather than awned, scales. Previous reports from eastern North American were misidentifications (J. Cayouette 1987).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex lyngbyei
|author=
|authority=Hornemann in G. C. Oeder et al.
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex cryptocarpa;Carex lyngbyei var. cryptocarpa;Carex lyngbyei var. robusta;Carex salina var. robusta
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Coastal salt marshes, brackish marshes
|elevation=0–10 m
|distribution=Greenland;B.C.;Alaska;Calif.;Oreg.;Wash.;Europe (Iceland).
|reference=None
|publication title=in G. C. Oeder et al., Fl. Dan.
|publication year=1827
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_677.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Phacocystis
|species=Carex lyngbyei
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