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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex paleacea
|accepted_authority=Schreber ex Wahlenberg
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Nya Handl.
|place=24: 165. 1803
|year=1803
}}
|common_names=Carex paléacé
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex crinita var. paleacea
|authority=(Schreber ex Wahlenberg) Dewey
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex ×gardneri
|authority=E. Lepage
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex ×gauthieri
|authority=E. Lepage
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex ×neopaleacea
|authority=E. Lepage
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex paleacea var. transatlantica
|authority=Fernald
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex ×paleaceoides
|authority=E. Lepage
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex ×sublimosa
|authority=
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Phacocystis;Carex paleacea
|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. Phacocystis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex paleacea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 380, 382, 383, 385, 394
|treatment_page=page 384
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>not cespitose. <b>Culms</b> obtusely or acutely angled, 15–80 cm, glabrous or minutely scabrous. <b>Leaves</b>: basal sheaths brown or red-brown; sheaths of proximal leaves glabrous, fronts lacking spots and veins, apex U-shaped; blades hypostomic, 4–8 mm wide, abaxially papillose. <b>Proximal</b> bract equal to or longer than inflorescence, 3–8 mm wide. <b>Spikes</b> usually pendent; staminate (1–)2–3; pistillate 2–7; proximal pistillate spike 2.2–6.5 cm × 5–13 mm, base obtuse. <b>Pistillate</b> scales yellow-brown; 3.4–20 × 1–1.7 mm (including awn), midvein reaching apex, 1/3–1/2 the width of scale, apex acuminate or retuse, aristate, awn scabrous. <b>Perigynia</b> divergent, pale brown, 0–50-veined on each face, thick-walled, somewhat inflated, loosely enclosing achenes, ellipsoid, 2.4–4 × 1.3–1.9 mm, leathery, dull, base with stipe to 0.5 mm, apex acute, short-papillose; beak cylindric, 0.2–0.4 mm, entire. <b>Achenes</b> deeply constricted on 1 margins or 1 face, apex rounded, glossy; style base strongly bent. <b>2n</b> = 71, 72, 73.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting Jul–Sep.
|habitat=Saline, brackish, and intertidal marshes, shores, river estuaries
|elevation=0–10 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Maine;Mass.;N.H.;Eurasia.
|discussion=<p>Smaller and depauperate plants of <i>Carex paleacea</i>, mostly from rocky habitats, and aberrant individuals were considered to be hybrids by E. Lepage (1956, 1957, 1957b, 1967, 1976b) even if they were fertile. The following are included in <i>Carex paleacea</i>: C. ×neopaleacea E. Lepage (= <i>C. paleacea</i> × <i>C. buxbaumii</i>), C. ×paleacoides E. Lepage (= <i>C. paleacea</i> × <i>C. glareosa</i> var. amphigena), and C. ×gauthieri E. Lepage (= <i>C. paleacea</i> × <i>C. recta</i>). Similar depauperate plants have been cultivated in an experimental garden and were found to be identical to typical <i>C. paleacea</i>. Their unusual appearance was interpreted as the result of environmental phenotypic modifications (J. Cayouette and P. Moriset 1985, 1986b). Type specimens of both C. ×gardneri E. Lepage and C. ×sublimosa E. Lepage are <i>C. paleacea</i>, but the hybrids <i>C. paleacea</i> × <i>C. salina</i> and <i>C. limosa</i> × <i>C. paleacea</i> do exist. Other verified and accepted hybrids of <i>C. paleacea</i> include C. ×neofilipendula E. Lepage (<i>C. aquatilis</i>), C. ×exsalina E. Lepage (= <i>C. paleacea</i> × <i>C. bigelowii</i>), C. ×saxenii M. Raymond (= <i>C. paleacea</i> × <i>C. recta</i>). <i>Carex nigra</i> × <i>C. paleacea</i> (= C. ×subnigra E. Lepage) is <i>C. vacillans</i>, and <i>C. paleacea</i> × <i>C. stylosa</i> var. nigritella (= C. ×ungavensis E. Lepage) is probably a hybrid involving <i>C. paleacea</i>.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex paleacea
|authority=Schreber ex Wahlenberg
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex crinita var. paleacea;Carex ×gardneri;Carex ×gauthieri;Carex ×neopaleacea;Carex paleacea var. transatlantica;Carex ×paleaceoides;Carex ×sublimosa
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting Jul–Sep.
|habitat=Saline, brackish, and intertidal marshes, shores, river estuaries
|elevation=0–10 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Maine;Mass.;N.H.;Eurasia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Nya Handl.
|publication year=1803
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_678.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Phacocystis
|species=Carex paleacea
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