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|accepted_name=Carex nigricans
|accepted_authority=C. A. Meyer
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg Divers Savans
|place=1: 211, plate 7. 1831
|year=1831
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Dornera;Carex nigricans
|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. Dornera]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex nigricans]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 529
|treatment_page=page 530
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>loosely cespitose, mat-forming; rhizomes short, stout. <b>Culms</b> 5–30 cm. <b>Leaves</b> flat to the tip, (1.5–)2–4 mm wide. <b>Pistillate</b> scales reddish brown to black, lanceolate, as broad and as long as or slightly longer than perigynia, margins not hyaline or scarious, apex acute to acuminate. <b>Perigynia</b> ascending to spreading and deflexed at maturity, 3.8–4.1(–5) × 1–1.2 mm; beak dark brown to black, frequently as long as body of perigynium. <b>Stigmas</b> 3. <b>2n</b> = 72.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Moist meadows, mossy heaths, wet gravels of streams and snowbeds
|elevation=90–3400 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Alaska;Calif.;Colo.;Mont.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
|discussion=<p>The occurrence of <i>Carex nigricans</i> in Russia, although expected, is unconfirmed by specimens, according to T. V. Egorova (1999).</p>
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name=Carex nigricans
|authority=C. A. Meyer
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Moist meadows, mossy heaths, wet gravels of streams and snowbeds
|elevation=90–3400 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Alaska;Calif.;Colo.;Mont.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg Divers Savans
|publication year=1831
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Dornera
|species=Carex nigricans
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