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|accepted_name=Carex micropoda
|accepted_authority=C. A. Meyer
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg Divers Savans
|place=1: 210, plate 6. 1831
|year=1831
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex crandallii
|authority=Gandoger
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex jacobi-peteri
|authority=Hultén
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex pyrenaica subsp. micropoda
|authority=(C. A. Meyer) Hultén
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex pyrenaica var. mondsii
|authority=Kelso
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Dornera;Carex micropoda
|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. Dornera]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex micropoda]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 529
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose, tuft-forming; rhizomes inconspiuous. <b>Culms</b> 5–30(–40) cm. <b>Leaves</b> involute, 0.25–1.5(–2) mm wide. <b>Pistillate</b> scales light to dark brown, ovate, shorter than to as long as perigynia, apex obtuse to acute, apex and distal margins frequently hyaline, scarious. <b>Perigynia</b> ascending to spreading even reflexed at maturity, light green becoming straw colored, 3–4(–5) (including stipe) × 1–1.3 mm; beak dark brown, much shorter than body of perigynium. <b>Stigmas</b> 2(–3). <b>2n</b> = 62 (Chukotka).</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Moist meadows, stream banks, seeps, snowbeds and areas irrigated by meltwater
|elevation=10–4000 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C. Yukon;Alaska;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.;Eurasia (Japan;Russia).
|discussion=<p>There is as much variation within the Rocky Mountain <i>Carex</i> crandallii as between C. crandallii and <i>C. micropoda</i> of Alaska and British Columbia. J. A. Calder and R. L. Taylor (1968) reported a weak distinction between a predominately distigmatic coastal race (“micropoda”) and a tristigmatic one (“pyrenaica”) from the interior. T. V. Egorova (1999) illustrated the shapes of perigynia for C. pyrenaica and <i>C. micropoda</i>, and the differences are consistent with what others have noted. Nevertheless, until a more reliable set of characters is found to distinguish these two taxa, all of the North American plants shall be treated as <i>C. micropoda</i>. W. A. Weber and R. C. Wittmann (1992) maintain the North American plants distinct from the European C. pyrenaica at the rank of species, a view that is accepted here. A thorough, worldwide review of relationships among taxa is warranted.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex micropoda
|author=
|authority=C. A. Meyer
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex crandallii;Carex jacobi-peteri;Carex pyrenaica subsp. micropoda;Carex pyrenaica var. mondsii
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Moist meadows, stream banks, seeps, snowbeds and areas irrigated by meltwater
|elevation=10–4000 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C. Yukon;Alaska;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.;Eurasia (Japan;Russia).
|reference=None
|publication title=Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg Divers Savans
|publication year=1831
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Dornera
|species=Carex micropoda
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