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|accepted_name=Carex subbracteata
|accepted_authority=Mackenzie
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=43: 612. 1917
|year=1917
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Ovales;Carex subbracteata
|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 subbracteata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 332, 345, 348
|treatment_page=page 347
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose. <b>Culms</b> often lax, supported by other vegetation, 27–105 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths white-hyaline or green-veined with central white-hyaline strip, summits U-shaped to rounded, sometimes prolonged beyond collar; distal ligules 1.5–5.5 mm; blades 3–6 per fertile culm, 12–65 cm × 1.3–3.7(–4.6) mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> dense to open, green and brown, gold and brown, or brown, 1.3–3.5 cm × 7–23 mm; proximal internode 2–3(–4.5) mm; 2d internode 1–3 mm; proximal bracts bristlelike or rarely leaflike, longer than inflorescences. <b>Spikes</b> 4–11, densely aggregated, at least proximal 1–3 distinct, ovoid to broadly ovoid, 6–12.3 × 3.8–9.1 mm; base rounded; apex acute to rounded. <b>Pistillate</b> scales brown, red-brown, or coppery, with whitish, green, or pale brown midstripe, ovate, (3.2–)3.5–4.5 mm, shorter, narrower than, or covering perigynia, margin often indistinct, white, 0–0.4 mm wide, apex ± obtuse or rarely short-awned. <b>Perigynia</b> ascending to spreading, straw colored or gold to coppery, conspicuously (0–)5–9-veined abaxially, conspicuously 0–6-veined adaxially, veins not reaching top of achene, ovate to broadly ovate, plano-convex to biconvex, (2.9–)3.5–4.7(–5.7) × 1.2–1.7(–2.2) mm, 0.5–0.75 mm thick, ± leathery, margin flat, including wing 0.2–0.4 mm wide, ciliate-serrulate at least on distal body, with metallic sheen; beak often brown to dark brown at tip or white-hyaline, cylindric, unwinged, abaxial suture inconspicuous, distance from beak tip to achene 1.5–2.2(–2.6) mm, ± entire for (0.3–) 0.4–0.8 mm. <b>Achenes</b> broadly ovate to quadrate, 1.3–2.1 × 1–1.5(–1.7) mm, 0.5–0.6 mm thick.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer.
|habitat=Meadows, swales, moist places, roadsides, along the coast and in Coast Ranges
|elevation=0–900 m
|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p><i>Carex</i> subbracteatais very similar to and perhaps conspecific with <i>C. gracilior</i> (R. Whitkus 1988).</p>
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name=Carex subbracteata
|authority=Mackenzie
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer.
|habitat=Meadows, swales, moist places, roadsides, along the coast and in Coast Ranges
|elevation=0–900 m
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1917
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Ovales
|species=Carex subbracteata
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