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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex reniformis
|accepted_authority=(L. H. Bailey) Small
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. S.E. U. S.,
|place=220, 1328. 1903
|year=1903
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Carex straminea var. reniformis
|authority=L. H. Bailey
|rank=variety
|publication_title=Mem. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication_place=1: 73. 1889
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Ovales;Carex reniformis
|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. Ovales]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex reniformis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 376
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>cespitose; rhizomes appearing elongate in old clumps, 1.5–5 mm wide, mostly 1 shoot per node. <b>Culms</b> 25–75 cm; vegetative culms few, inconspicuous, usually fewer than 12 leaves, not strikingly 3-ranked. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths with adaxial hyaline band, summits U-shaped; distal ligules 1.7–3.6 mm; blades 4–5 per fertile culm, 10–25 cm × 1.8–3.2 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> open, yellow-green, 2–5 cm × 6–14 mm; proximal internode 5–11 mm; 2d internode 5–13 mm; proximal bracts scalelike or with bristle tip shorter than or equaling inflorescences. <b>Spikes</b> 3–6, distant, distinct, ellipsoid to ovoid, 7–12 × 5–10 mm, base rounded to acute, apex rounded. <b>Pistillate</b> scales white-hyaline with green midstripe, ovate, 2–3.5 mm, reaching base of perignyium beaks, narrower than perigynia, apex obtuse to rounded. <b>Perigynia</b> 15–80 in larger spikes, ascending, straw colored, green distally, inconspicuously veined on each face, reniform to orbiculate, flat, 4–5.3 × 3.5–4.5(–4.9) mm, 0.4–0.6 mm thick, margin flat, including wing 1–1.5 mm wide, finely granular-papillose (30X); beak pale or green at tip, flat, ciliate-serrulate, abaxial suture with conspicuous white-hyaline margin, distance from beak tip to achene 2–2.7 mm. <b>Achenes</b> elliptic, 1.8–2.2 × 1.2–1.5 mm, 0.4–0.6 mm thick. <b>2n</b> = 80.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late spring.
|habitat=Wet woods, bottomlands
|elevation=0–300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ky.;La.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex reniformis
|authority=(L. H. Bailey) Small
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Carex straminea var. reniformis
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late spring.
|habitat=Wet woods, bottomlands
|elevation=0–300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ky.;La.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. S.E. U. S.,
|publication year=1903
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Ovales
|species=Carex reniformis
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