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|accepted_name=Carex hyalina
|accepted_authority=Boott
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Boston J. Nat. Hist.
|place=5: 112. 1845
|year=1845
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Ovales;Carex hyalina
|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 hyalina]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 338, 375
|treatment_page=page 377
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>± colonial; rhizomes short-creeping between patches. <b>Culms</b> 25–95 cm; vegetative culms numerous, conspicuous, with 15–35 leaves, 3-ranked. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths with adaxial hyaline band, summits U-shaped, prolonged 0.4–1.6 mm beyond collar; distal ligules 2–3.5 mm; blades 4–7 per fertile culm, pleated, ± auriculate at collar, 9–20 cm × 1–2.7 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> open or dense, light green to light brown, 1.3–4 cm × 8–12 mm; proximal internode 2–9 mm; 2d internode 2–5 mm; proximal bracts scalelike or with bristle tips to 3.7 cm. <b>Spikes</b> 2–4(–6), distant, distinct, clavate-ovoid, 6–18 × 6–12 mm, base attenuate on terminal spike, truncate on lateral spikes, apex rounded. <b>Pistillate</b> scales silvery white to pale brown, narrow green to brown midstripe, narrowly ovate, 2.3–3.8 mm, as long as and narrower than perigynia, apex obtuse to acute. <b>Perigynia</b> widely spreading, green to pale brown, conspicuously 5–10-veined abaxially, conspicuously 3–7-veined adaxially, elliptic to nearly orbiculate, plano-convex to biconvex, (4–)4.5–6.6 × 2.2–3.5 mm, 0.6 mm thick, sometimes finely papillose, margin flat, including wing 0.8–1.3 mm wide; beak white or pale brown at tip, flat, ciliate-serrulate, abaxial suture usually inconspicuous, distance from beak tip to achene 2–3 mm. <b>Achenes</b> narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 1.8–2.6 × 0.9–1.2 mm, 0.6 mm thick. <b>2n</b> = 74.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring.
|habitat=Bottomland woods on clayey and silty soils, riverbanks
|elevation=10–100 m
|distribution=Ark.;La.;Miss.;Okla.;Tenn.;Tex.
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|references=
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name=Carex hyalina
|author=
|authority=Boott
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring.
|habitat=Bottomland woods on clayey and silty soils, riverbanks
|elevation=10–100 m
|distribution=Ark.;La.;Miss.;Okla.;Tenn.;Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Boston J. Nat. Hist.
|publication year=1845
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Ovales
|species=Carex hyalina
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