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|accepted_name=Carex timida
|accepted_authority=R. F. C. Naczi & B. A. Ford
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sida
|place=19: 879, figs. 3C, 4A–C, 5C, 7. 2001
|year=2001
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Phyllostachyae;Carex timida
|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. Phyllostachyae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex timida]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 559, 560
|treatment_page=page 561
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Culms </b>4.6–34 cm; cataphylls with bulging cells. <b>Leaves</b>: basal sheaths dark brown, tinged red-purple; blades green, exceeding culms, 1–4.3 mm wide, herbaceous, margins green, scabrous. <b>Lateral</b> spikes 1–3, basal, on widely spreading to nodding peduncles. <b>Terminal</b> spikes with staminate portion 2–12-flowered, 3.4–5.6(–6.2) × 0.6–1 mm; pistillate portion 2–3(–4)-flowered. <b>Pistillate</b> scales green, margins hyaline, white or with brown submarginal band, 1.6–2.4 mm wide, not more than 1.5 times as and not concealing perigynia; distal scales with hyaline margins 0.4–0.8 mm wide. <b>Staminate</b> scales white or pale green with subapical brown band, margins connate, enfolding scales above, (1.9–)2.1–3.3 mm, (0.33–)0.4–0.75 length of staminate portion of terminal spike, apex truncate or broadly obtuse. <b>Anthers</b> 0.4–1.5 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> 2–3(–4) per spike, pale green to pale brown, narrowly ovoid, obovoid, or ellipsoid, (4–)4.4–5.6(–6) × 1.6–2.1 mm, tightly enveloping achenes, apex abruptly tapering; beak 1.4–2.3(–2.5) mm, scabrous. <b>Stigmas</b> filiform, flexuous, long, slender, strongly papillose. <b>Achenes</b> brown, subglobose, 2.1–2.5 × 1.6–2.1 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer (May–Jul).
|habitat=Mesic deciduous woods, mixed deciduous and juniper woodlands, on lime-rich substrates
|elevation=200–500 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Ind.;Ky.;Mo.;Ohio;Okla.;Tenn.
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name=Carex timida
|authority=R. F. C. Naczi & B. A. Ford
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer (May–Jul).
|habitat=Mesic deciduous woods, mixed deciduous and juniper woodlands, on lime-rich substrates
|elevation=200–500 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Ind.;Ky.;Mo.;Ohio;Okla.;Tenn.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sida
|publication year=2001
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Phyllostachyae
|species=Carex timida
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