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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex phaeocephala
|accepted_authority=Piper
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb.
|place=11: 172. 1906
|year=1906
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Ovales;Carex phaeocephala
|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 phaeocephala]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 341, 342, 344, 345, 346, 354, 356
|treatment_page=page 355
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose. <b>Culms</b> (5–)15–45 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths adaxially white-hyaline, summits U-shaped or rounded, often prolonged to 2.5(–3) mm beyond collar; distal ligules 1.5–2.5(–3) mm; blades 3–5 per fertile culm, often channeled, occasionally folded, becoming trigonous toward tip, 5–20 cm × 1–2.5(–3) mm, if not folded, margins revolute. <b>Inflorescences</b> usually dense, stiff, gold to brown or brown and green, 1.5–3.5(–4) cm × 10–15 mm; proximal internode 4–10 mm; 2d internode 2–5 mm; proximal bracts scalelike to bristlelike, shorter than inflorescences. <b>Spikes</b> (3–)4–7, distant, distinct, ovoid to broadly ovoid, 12–15 × 5.5–8 mm, base rounded to attenuate, apex acute to truncate. <b>Pistillate</b> scales gold or brown, usually with pale to green midstripe, lanceolate to ovate, 3.7–5.1 mm, usually ± equaling and covering perigynia, margin white-hyaline, 0.1–0.3 mm wide, apex acute to acuminate. <b>Anthers</b> early deciduous or short-persistent. <b>Perigynia</b> ascending, greenish or pale gold to brown, conspicuously (0–)4–9-veined abaxially, conspicuously 0(–4)-veined adaxially, narrowly ovate to broadly ovate, flat or plano-convex, 3.8–5.2 × 1.5–2.3 mm, 0.4–0.5 mm thick, margin flat, including wing 0.3–0.5 mm wide, ciliate-serulate at least on distal body, not crinkled, without glossy metallic sheen; beak brown to red-brown or gold with white-hyaline tip, cylindric, unwinged, ± entire for 0.6 mm, abaxial suture with conspicuous white margin, distance from beak tip to achene 1.8–2.2 mm. <b>Achenes</b> ovate to broadly ovate or, occasionally, elliptic, 1.5–2 × 0.8–1.1(–1.2) mm, 0.3–0.5 mm thick. <b>2n</b> = 84.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=High-montane to alpine areas, usually rocky soils
|elevation=1200–4000 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Alaska;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
|discussion=<p>Reports of Carex phaeocephala from northern Canada are based on other species, mostly C. tahoensis.</p>
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name=Carex phaeocephala
|author=
|authority=Piper
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=High-montane to alpine areas, usually rocky soils
|elevation=1200–4000 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Alaska;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb.
|publication year=1906
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Ovales
|species=Carex phaeocephala
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