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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex specuicola
|accepted_authority=J. T. Howell
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Leafl. W. Bot.
|place=5: 148. 1949
|year=1949
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Racemosae;Carex specuicola
|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 specuicola]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 403, 413
|treatment_page=page 414
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>loosely cespitose. <b>Culms</b> 25–45 cm, distally finely scabrous. <b>Leaves</b> 1–3 mm wide. <b>Inflorescences</b>: proximal bracts shorter than inflorescences; spikes erect or, sometimes, lateral spikes pendent or divergent, separate, short-pendunculate, short-oblong or elongate, 5–20 × 3.5–4 mm; lateral 1–3 spikes pistillate, of similar lengths; terminal spike gynecandrous, consisting of few pistillate flowers at summit of an otherwise staminate spikes (when perigynia fall at maturity, spikes appear to be wholly staminate). <b>Pistillate</b> scales light brown, somewhat hyaline, margins hyaline, often broadly so, narrowly lanceolate or ovate, shorter than and narrower than perigynia, midvein broad and lighter colored than body, conspicuous, sometimes raised, prominent, apex acute or short-mucronate. <b>Perigynia</b> ascending, pale yellow to light brown, faintly veined, obovate or circular, 2.5–3.5 × 1.5–2 mm, apex abruptly beaked, distal margins papillose, serrulate; beak 0.25–0.5 mm, bidentate, finely papillose and serrulate. <b>Achenes</b> nearly filling body of perigynia.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting Jun–Sep.
|habitat=In crevices on rock faces with seeps, small “hanging gardens”
|elevation=1100–2000 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Utah.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p>Carex specuicola is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex specuicola
|author=
|authority=J. T. Howell
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting Jun–Sep.
|habitat=In crevices on rock faces with seeps, small “hanging gardens”
|elevation=1100–2000 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Utah.
|reference=None
|publication title=Leafl. W. Bot.
|publication year=1949
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Racemosae
|species=Carex specuicola
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