View source for Carex crinita

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|accepted_name=Carex crinita
|accepted_authority=Lamarck in J. Lamarck et al.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in J. Lamarck et al., Encycl.
|place=3: 393. 1791
|year=1791
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Phacocystis;Carex crinita
|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 crinita]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 380, 386, 387, 464, 486
|treatment_page=page 385
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>cespitose. <b>Culms</b> acutely angled, 40–150 cm, scabrous. <b>Leaves</b>: basal sheaths red-brown or brown; sheaths of proximal leaves bladeless, glabrous, fronts red-brown to copper-brown, spots absent, indistinctly ladder-fibrillose, apex U-shaped; blades hypostomic, abaxially papillose. <b>Proximal</b> bract longer than inflorescence, 3–6 mm wide. <b>Spikes</b> usually pendent; staminate 1–3, base cuneate or attenuate. <b>Pistillate</b> scales pale to copper-brown, midvein reaching apex, broad, apex of body retuse, aristate. <b>Perigynia</b> divergent, pale brown, inflated, loosely enclosing achenes, obovoid, dull, apex rounded, obtuse or truncate, glabrous. <b>Achenes</b> constricted on one or both margins or lacking constrictions; style base straight.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America.
|discussion=<p>Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>The status of <i>Carex crinita</i> <i></i>var.<i> porteri</i> (Olney) Fernald [<i>C. porteri</i> Olney], a rare, long-beaked taxon known from two sites in Somerset and Lincoln counties, Maine, is in question and is not treated here. It has not been collected since around the early 1900s.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=bruederle1986a
|text=Bruederle, L. P. and D. E. Fairbrothers. 1986. Allozyme variation in populations of the Carex crinita Lam. complex (Cyperaceae). Syst. Bot. 11: 583–594.
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==Key==
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|1
|Achenes variously constricted; perigynia ellipsoid to obovoid.
|[[Carex crinita var. crinita|Carex crinita var. crinita]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Achenes not constricted; perigynia broadly obovoid.
|[[Carex crinita var. brevicrinis|Carex crinita var. brevicrinis]]
|}
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name=Carex crinita
|authority=Lamarck in J. Lamarck et al.
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|distribution=North America.
|reference=bruederle1986a
|publication title=in J. Lamarck et al., Encycl.
|publication year=1791
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Phacocystis
|species=Carex crinita
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