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|accepted_name=Carex globosa
|accepted_authority=Boott
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Linn. Soc. London
|place=1: 259. 1845
|year=1845
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex umbellata var. globosa
|authority=(Boott) Kükenthal
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Acrocystis;Carex globosa
|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. Acrocystis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex globosa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 534
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>loosely cespitose; rhizomes arching to ascending, dark reddish brown to purplish brown, 0–12 mm, slender or stout. <b>Culms</b> 7–47 cm, scabrous distally; bases strongly fibrous. <b>Leaf</b> blades bright green, usually shorter than stems, 1.4–4.5 mm wide, herbaceous, glabrous abaxially, strongly scabrous to papillose adaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b> usually with both staminate and pistillate spikes; peduncles of basal spikes arching, elongate, slender; peduncles of terminal staminate spikes 2–5 mm; proximal cauline bracts leaflike, usually shorter than (occasionally slightly exceeding) inflorescences. <b>Spikes</b>: proximal pistillate spikes 2–4 (basal spikes 1–2); cauline spikes overlapping or somewhat separated, with 3–10 perigynia; terminal staminate spikes 10–25 × 1.5–3.2 mm. <b>Scales</b>: pistillate scales purplish brown or reddish brown, with similarly colored or narrow white margins, ovate, 4.2–6.5 × 1.8–2.1 mm, equaling or exceeding perigynia, apex obtuse to cuspidate (awned in some basal spikes); staminate scales ovate to lanceolate, 4.2–7.6 × 1.8–2.1 mm, apex obtuse to acute or short-awned. <b>Anthers</b> 2–3.3 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> green, 12–20-veined conspicuous to at least mid body, globose to obovoid, (3.5–)3.8–5 × (1.6–)1.8–2.3 mm; beak straight, pale green, often tinged with dark reddish brown near apex, (0.5–)0.7–1.4 mm, ciliate-serrulate, apical teeth 0.2–0.3 mm. <b>Stigmas</b> 3. <b>Achenes</b> brown, globose to obovoid, round to obtusely trigonous in cross section, 1.9–2.7 × 1.6–2.3 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting mid Apr–late Jun.
|habitat=Moist, shaded, acidic and serpentine slopes and stream banks in redwood, cypress, pine, and oak forests
|elevation=90–1500 m
|distribution=Calif.
|tables=
|references=
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name=Carex globosa
|authority=Boott
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex umbellata var. globosa
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting mid Apr–late Jun.
|habitat=Moist, shaded, acidic and serpentine slopes and stream banks in redwood, cypress, pine, and oak forests
|elevation=90–1500 m
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Linn. Soc. London
|publication year=1845
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Acrocystis
|species=Carex globosa
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