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|accepted_name=Carex aureolensis
|accepted_authority=Steudel
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Syn. Pl. Glumac.
|place=2: 223. 1855
|year=1855
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex atrovirens
|authority=Boeckeler
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex involucrata
|authority=Boeckeler
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Squarrosae;Carex aureolensis
|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. Squarrosae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex aureolensis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 516, 518
|treatment_page=page 519
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>colonial, long-rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> (10–)20–85 cm. <b>Leaves</b> 2–8.5 mm wide, sparingly scabrous. <b>Spikes</b> 4–6, erect; lateral spikes pistillate with a few staminate flowers proximally and rarely also distally, narrowly elliptic, 11–4.5 × 5.5–11 mm; terminal spike staminate, sometimes gynecandrous or abortive, 9–42 × 1.5–3.5 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> scales with distinct body, 2.9–7(–11.8) × 0.4–0.9(–1.1) mm, body 1.5–2.5 mm, translucent, apex with long, scabrous awn to 1.4–4.5(–9) mm, exceeding perigynia. <b>Staminate</b> scales ± tightly imbricate, lanceolate, narrowly ovate, or oblong-obovate, 3.3–9.3(–12.5) × 0.9–1.6 mm, apex acute to truncate-erose or retuse, sometimes with scabrous awn to 0.1–6.2(–9.2) mm. <b>Perigynia</b> horizontal, 3.2–5.1(–5.6) × 1.3–2.5 mm, minutely pustulate; beak 1.2–2.1 mm, smooth. <b>Achenes</b> trigonous-obovoid, sides strongly concave, 1.2–1.8(–2.1) × 0.9–1.3(–1.5) mm, less than 2 times as long as wide; style deciduous, straight or sinuous.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Wet meadows and woods, muddy margins of lakes and ponds, roadside ditches
|elevation=0–500 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.Mex.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;Mexico (Coahuila;Nuevo León);South America.
|discussion=<p><i>Carex aureolensis</i> has been recognized as a distinct species based on its staminate and pistillate scale morphology, growth habit, and distribution.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex aureolensis
|authority=Steudel
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex atrovirens;Carex involucrata
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Wet meadows and woods, muddy margins of lakes and ponds, roadside ditches
|elevation=0–500 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.Mex.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;Mexico (Coahuila;Nuevo León);South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Syn. Pl. Glumac.
|publication year=1855
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_969.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Squarrosae
|species=Carex aureolensis
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