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|accepted_name=Carex straminiformis
|accepted_authority=L. H. Bailey
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mem. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=1: 24. 1889
|year=1889
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Ovales;Carex straminiformis
|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 straminiformis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 341, 375
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose. <b>Culms</b> 20–50 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths adaxially white-hyaline, often cross-corrugated, summits U-shaped or rounded, sometimes prolonged to 2.5 mm beyond collar; distal ligules 1–2.5(–3.5) mm; blades 2–4(–7) per fertile culm, 8–25 cm × (2.5–)3–4 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> dense, gold or brown, 1.3–3 cm × 12–20 mm; proximal internode 0.5–3.9(–5) mm; 2d internode 1–3(–4) mm; proximal bracts scalelike or bristlelike, shorter than inflorescences. <b>Spikes</b> 3–8, usually distinct, broadly ovoid, 9–12 × 6–9 mm, base rounded to attenuate, apex rounded. <b>Pistillate</b> scales white, gold, red-brown, or coppery, with pale to green midstripe, lanceolate to ovate, 3.2–4.8 mm, shorter and narrower than perigynia, margin white, 0–0.15(–0.3) mm wide, apex acute to acuminate. <b>Perigynia</b> ascending to spreading, green, straw colored, or occasionally white, 10–20-veined abaxially, conspicuously 0–12-veined adaxially, thin, broadly ovate, flat except over achene, 4–5.8 × 1.8–3.4 mm, 0.3–0.5(–0.6) mm thick, 1.7–2.3 times as long as wide, margin flat, including wing 0.4–1 mm wide, edge minutely crinkled and ciliate-serrulate at least distally; beak spreading, gold, red-brown to dark brown, sometimes white-hyaline at tip, flat, ± ciliate-serrulate, sometimes cylindric, unwinged, ± entire for 0.5–0.7 mm, abaxial suture usually inconspicuous, distance from beak tip to achene 2.2–3 mm. <b>Achenes</b> elliptic to broadly obovate, (1.4–)1.7–2.4 × 1–1.6 mm, 0.3–0.5 mm thick.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Rocky, gravelly soils
|elevation=1900–3800 m
|distribution=Calif.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.
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name=Carex straminiformis
|authority=L. H. Bailey
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Rocky, gravelly soils
|elevation=1900–3800 m
|distribution=Calif.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.
|reference=None
|publication title=Mem. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1889
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Ovales
|species=Carex straminiformis
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