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|accepted_name=Carex microglochin subsp. microglochin
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|name=Carex pauciflora var. microglochin
|authority=(Wahlenberg) Poiret ex Lamarck
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|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Leucoglochin;Carex microglochin;Carex microglochin subsp. microglochin
|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. Leucoglochin]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex microglochin]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subspecies</small>[[Carex microglochin subsp. microglochin]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 529
|treatment_page=page 531
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Rhizomes </b>0.2–4(–6) cm × 0.5–1 mm. <b>Culms</b> arising singly or 2–4 together, (2–)4–23(–36) cm, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b>: the proximal blade-bearing; foliage leaves 4–10 per culm; ligules much wider than long; blades 1–8(–14) cm × 0.5–0.8 mm. <b>Spike</b> with 4–8 staminate flowers and 3–10 pistillate flowers, 6–14 × 2–9 (immature fruit) or 4–11 (mature fruit) mm. <b>Pistillate</b> scales (except the proximal) 2.4–3 mm, wider than and 1/2 length of perigynia. <b>Staminate</b> scales appressed. <b>Perigynia</b> pale green to straw colored, lance-subulate, 3.4–4.7 × 0.5–0.7 mm; beak scarcely differentiated; rachilla bristlelike, exserted 0.5–2.8 mm beyond orifice of beak. <b>Achenes</b> 2.1–2.4 × 0.5–0.7 mm; style not exserted. <b>2n</b> = 50.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer (mid Jun–late Aug).
|habitat=Moist, calcareous, often peaty ground in open barrens, tundra (often very wet or flooded), fens, seeps over shallow bedrock, and boggy subalpine meadows, also sandy or gravelly river flats and clay or silt at lakeshores and seasides
|elevation=0–3700 m
|distribution=Greenland;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Yukon;Alaska;Colo.;Utah;Wyo.;Eurasia.
|discussion=<p><i>Carex microglochin </i>subsp.<i> microglochin</i> is usually rare to occasional in subarctic North America and scattered in the cordilleran region. It can be locally abundant (e.g., Brooks Range, Alaska) or even dominant (e.g., western Newfoundland) despite its very spotty geographic range. It was reported from Montana by W. E. Booth (1950) and F. J. Hermann (1970); no verifying specimens have been found. Many authors, including cyperologists (e.g., E. R. Guaglianone 1996), have agreed that the populations found in Argentina, Chile, and the Falkland Islands constitute a vicariant here treated as <i>C. microglochin</i> subsp. fuegina Kükenthal [C. oligantha W. Boott, not Steudel; <i>C. microglochin</i> var. oligantha Kükenthal], differing from <i></i></i>subsp.<i><i> microglochin</i> primarily in having fewer flowers per spike and slightly longer perigynia with longer stipes. H. Roivainen (1954) asserted that both taxa (as <i>C. microglochin</i> and C. oligantha) occur in Tierra del Fuego.</p><!--
--><p><i>Carex microglochin </i>subsp.<i> microglochin</i> is an inconspicuous but interesting little plant, distinctive in having a well-developed rachilla very similar in appearance to the exserted style of <i>C. pauciflora</i>. The long-pointed perigynia, which mature quickly and detach easily, are probably dispersed by animals (M. L. Fernald 1926; D. B. O. Savile 1972).</p>
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name=Carex microglochin subsp. microglochin
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|rank=subspecies
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|synonyms=Carex pauciflora var. microglochin
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|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer (mid Jun–late Aug).
|habitat=Moist, calcareous, often peaty ground in open barrens, tundra (often very wet or flooded), fens, seeps over shallow bedrock, and boggy subalpine meadows, also sandy or gravelly river flats and clay or silt at lakeshores and seasides
|elevation=0–3700 m
|distribution=Greenland;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Yukon;Alaska;Colo.;Utah;Wyo.;Eurasia.
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Leucoglochin
|species=Carex microglochin
|subspecies=Carex microglochin subsp. microglochin
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