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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex holostoma
|accepted_authority=Drejer
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Naturhist. Tidsskr.
|place=3: 447. 1841
|year=1841
}}
|common_names=Carex à bec entier
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex alpina var. holostoma
|authority=(Drejer) L. H. Bailey
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Racemosae;Carex holostoma
|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. Racemosae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex holostoma]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 402, 407
|treatment_page=page 408
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>loosely cespitose, long-rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> 10–30 cm, distally finely scabrous. <b>Leaves</b> 1.5–3 mm wide. <b>Inflorescences</b>: proximal bract shorter than or equaling inflorescences; spikes contiguous, overlapping, short-oblong or cylindric, 3–8 × 2–2.5 mm; proximal spikes sometimes erect, distinct, separate, short-pendunculate; lateral 1–2(–3) spikes pistillate, of similar length; terminal spike staminate, spikes can be hidden by larger, overtopping lateral spikes. <b>Pistillate</b> scales dark brown or black, margins hyaline, ovate, shorter or equaling, as broad as perigynia, midvein lighter colored than body, conspicuous, sometimes raised, prominent, mucronate. <b>Perigynia</b> ascending, brown, obscurely veined, elliptic or obovate, 2–2.5 × 1.25–1.75 mm, apex beakless or abruptly beaked, papillose; beak to 0.2 mm, truncate, smooth. <b>Achenes</b> nearly filling body of perigynia. <b>2n</b> = 60.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting Jul–Sep.
|habitat=Lakeshores, meadows, fens, bogs
|elevation=0–500 m
|distribution=Greenland;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;Nunavut;Que.;Yukon;Alaska;arctic Eurasia.
|discussion=<p><i>Carex holostoma</i> has most likely been overlooked and has a more continuous range than indicated.</p>
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|references=
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name=Carex holostoma
|authority=Drejer
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex alpina var. holostoma
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting Jul–Sep.
|habitat=Lakeshores, meadows, fens, bogs
|elevation=0–500 m
|distribution=Greenland;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;Nunavut;Que.;Yukon;Alaska;arctic Eurasia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Naturhist. Tidsskr.
|publication year=1841
|special status=Illustrated
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_734.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Racemosae
|species=Carex holostoma
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