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|accepted_name=Carex cumberlandensis
|accepted_authority=Naczi Kral & Bryson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sida
|place=19: 994, figs. 1–5, 7. 2001
|year=2001
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Careyanae;Carex cumberlandensis
|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. Careyanae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex cumberlandensis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 445
|treatment_page=page 444
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose, from short rhizomes. <b>Culms</b> erect or ascending, 7–27 cm × 0.4–0.7 mm; vegetative shoots taller than culms, (1.4–)1.7–3.7(–4.9) times as tall as tallest flowering culm; blades of vegetative shoots 1–3.5 times wider than bract blades. <b>Leaves</b>: basal sheaths white to light brown; nonbasal sheaths 2.1–10.6 mm; blades erect, drooping or recurved, dark green, 0.4–52 cm × 1.6–6.1 mm, usually exceeding culms. <b>Inflorescences</b>: spikes (3–)4 per culm, scattered; peduncles of proximal pistillate spikes drooping, to 9.1 cm; bracts dark green, 10–28 cm × 1.8–5.9 mm, well developed, blade of distal lateral spike (12–)17–51 times as long as wide. <b>Pistillate</b> spikes: the proximal usually, usually basal, the distal sessile to very short pedunculate, often hidden in foliage, 5.3–17 × 2.8–4.1 mm. <b>Staminate</b> spike sessile or nearly so, (8.3–)9.6–16(–21.1) × 0.6–1.3 mm, often hidden by distal bract and/or pistillate spikes. <b>Pistillate</b> scales 1.3–2.2 × 1.4–2.1 mm, midribs green, margins hyaline, apex acute, proximal scales of lateral spikes subtending perigynia. <b>Staminate</b> scales (2.6–)2.8–3.5(–3.8) × 1.1–1.7 mm, midribs green, margins hyaline, apex obtuse. <b>Anthers</b> 1.2–1.8 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> 4–8(–9) per spike, distichously overlapping, finely veined, obovoid, 2.9–3.8 × 1.5–2.1 mm; beak tapering. <b>Achenes</b> ellipsoid, 2.2–2.9 × 1.4–1.8 mm, sides flat at maturity, filling perigynia. <b>Style</b> tapering from swelling just beyond attachment to achene, bent, ascending through entire orifice.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring.
|habitat=Mesic, deciduous or mixed deciduous-evergreen forests, often calcareous soils
|elevation=200–1200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Ga.;Ind.;Ky.;Miss.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.
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name=Carex cumberlandensis
|author=
|authority=Naczi Kral & Bryson
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring.
|habitat=Mesic, deciduous or mixed deciduous-evergreen forests, often calcareous soils
|elevation=200–1200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Ga.;Ind.;Ky.;Miss.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sida
|publication year=2001
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Careyanae
|species=Carex cumberlandensis
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