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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex geophila
|accepted_authority=Mackenzie
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=40: 546. 1913
|year=1913
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Acrocystis;Carex geophila
|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. Acrocystis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex geophila]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 489, 532, 533, 536
|treatment_page=page 537
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose; rhizomes, horizontal to ascending, brown to reddish brown, 0–9 mm, slender. <b>Culms</b> 3–22 cm, strongly scabrous distally; bases (remnants of old leaves) fibrous. <b>Leaf</b> blades pale green, equaling or exceeding stems, 0.8–2.3 mm wide, coriaceous, glabrous abaxially, scabrous to papillose adaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b> with both staminate and pistillate spikes; peduncles of basal spikes stout, usually short, erect; peduncles of staminate spikes 1.1–8.8 mm; proximal nonbasal bracts scalelike, usually equaling or shorter than inflorescences. <b>Spikes</b>: proximal pistillate spikes 1–4 (basal spikes 1–2); cauline spikes overlapping or somewhat separated, with 5–15 perigynia; staminate spikes 6.9–16.9 × 1.4–2 mm. <b>Scales</b>: pistillate scales pale reddish brown with broad white margins, ovate, 3–4.3 × 1.5–1.8 mm, equaling perigynia, apex acute or cuspidate to acuminate; staminate scales lanceolate, 4.8–6.8 × 1.5–1.6 mm, apex acute to acuminate. <b>Anthers</b> 2–3.1 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> pale green to yellowish brown, veinless or faintly to 6-veined near base, globose to obovoid or ellipsoid, round in cross section, 2.7–4 × 1.5–2 mm; beak straight, pale green, not strongly 2-edged, 0.4–1 mm, ciliate-serrulate, apical teeth 0.2 mm. <b>Stigmas</b> 3. <b>Achenes</b> brown, globose to obovoid, round in cross section, 1.6–2.8 × 1.5–1.9 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late Apr–late Jul.
|habitat=Dry to mesic, open or shaded sagebrush, pine, juniper, oak, and aspen woodlands, slopes, canyons, and outcrops
|elevation=1200–3700 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico;Central America (Guatemala).
|discussion=<p>A collection from the Sierra <i>Nevada</i> in California appears to be <i>Carex geophila</i>. This population, as well as those from the San Bernardino Mountains, tentatively assigned to <i>C. pityophila</i>, should be re-evaluated in a revision of the western montane taxa.</p><!--
--><p>Immature plants of <i>Carex lativena</i> S. D. Jones & G. D. Jones (sect. Hallerianae) from Arizona and New Mexico have been misidentified as <i>C. geophila</i>.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex geophila
|authority=Mackenzie
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late Apr–late Jul.
|habitat=Dry to mesic, open or shaded sagebrush, pine, juniper, oak, and aspen woodlands, slopes, canyons, and outcrops
|elevation=1200–3700 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico;Central America (Guatemala).
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1913
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_1008.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Acrocystis
|species=Carex geophila
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