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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex lapponica
|accepted_authority=O. Lang
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Linnaea
|place=24: 539. 1851
|year=1851
}}
|common_names=Carex de Laponie
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex canescens var. subloliacea
|authority=Laestadius
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Glareosae;Carex lapponica
|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. Glareosae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex lapponica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 313, 317
|treatment_page=page 318
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose, in small clumps; rhizomes short. <b>Culms</b> erect, relatively strict, 15–40 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths relatively tight, pale brown abaxially, inner band thin, hyaline, concave at summit; ligules as wide as long; blades pale green to gray-green, flat, 10–20 cm × 1–2 mm, subequal to or shorter than culms, papillose, densely so abaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b> 1.5–4 cm × 4–5 mm; proximal bracts shorter than to exceeding spikes, distal bracts usually scalelike. <b>Spikes</b> 3–6(–7), gynecandrous, proximal sometimes remote, distal approximate, containing 10–20 perigynia, suborbicular to ovoid, 3–7 × 3–5 mm; terminal spike staminate for 1/2 length, not or scarely clavate. <b>Pistillate</b> scales hyaline with green, 3-veined center when young, usually brownish tinged in age, broadly ovate, subequal to, not concealing perigynia, apex obtuse to acutish. <b>Perigynia</b> appressed-ascending, gray-green, becoming pale brown in age, obscurely many-veined on both faces, elliptic-ovate, 1.8–2.1 × 1–1.3 mm, widest near middle, membranous; beak short, entire. <b>Achenes</b> yellowish brown, oblong-obovate, 1.25 × 1 mm, dull to slightly glossy. <b>2n</b> = 56.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting early summer.
|habitat=Sphagnum bogs, wet, nutrient-poor areas, mostly lowlands
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.W.T.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;n Eurasia.
|discussion=<p><i>Carex lapponica</i> is probably an often overlooked species in the flora area.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex lapponica
|authority=O. Lang
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex canescens var. subloliacea
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting early summer.
|habitat=Sphagnum bogs, wet, nutrient-poor areas, mostly lowlands
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.W.T.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;n Eurasia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Linnaea
|publication year=1851
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_560.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Glareosae
|species=Carex lapponica
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