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|accepted_name=Carex austrocaroliniana
|accepted_authority=L. H. Bailey
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=20: 428. 1893
|year=1893
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Carex caroliniana
|authority=Buckley
|publication_title=Amer. J. Sci. Arts
|publication_place=45: 173. 1843,
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Careyanae;Carex austrocaroliniana
|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 austrocaroliniana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 443, 445
|treatment_page=page 447
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose. <b>Culms</b> reclining or drooping, 19–51 cm × 0.2–0.7 mm. <b>Leaves</b>: basal sheaths purple; nonbasal sheaths with traces of purple, 7–40 mm; blades erect, ascending, or decumbent, green, 17–45 cm × (2–)3–6(–7) mm. <b>Inflorescences</b>: spikes (3–)4(–5) per culm, scattered; peduncle of lateral pistillate spikes slender, drooping, 8–11 cm, distal peduncle shortest; bracts reduced, 0.6–1.5 cm. <b>Pistillate</b> spikes the proximal basal, 7–12 × 4–6 mm. <b>Staminate</b> spike 1, linear, long-pedunculate, 0.7–2 × 2–4 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> scales keeled, 2.5–3.7 × 1.5–2 mm, midribs green, margins hyaline, purple outward, apex aristate. <b>Staminate</b> scales obtuse, 3–5 × 0.8–1.1 mm, midribs green, margins hyaline and purple. <b>Anthers</b> 3–3.2 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> 2–6 per spike, overlapping, finely veined, orbicular, 2.8–3.2 × 1.8–2.1 mm; beak tapering. <b>Achenes</b> orbicular, 1.8–2 × 1.8–2 mm, sides slightly concave at maturity, tightly fitting in perigynia. <b>Style</b> slightly bent from achene. <b>2n</b> = 60.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring.
|habitat=Rich, moist, deciduous or mixed deciduous-evergreen forests, often around steep seepage slopes or along small streams, mountain gorges
|elevation=100–800 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ga.;Ky.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.
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name=Carex austrocaroliniana
|author=
|authority=L. H. Bailey
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Carex caroliniana
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring.
|habitat=Rich, moist, deciduous or mixed deciduous-evergreen forests, often around steep seepage slopes or along small streams, mountain gorges
|elevation=100–800 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ga.;Ky.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1893
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Careyanae
|species=Carex austrocaroliniana
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