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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex hostiana
|accepted_authority=de Candolle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Cat. Pl. Hort. Monsp.,
|place=88. 1813
|year=1813
}}
|common_names=Tawny sedge;carex de Host
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex fulvescens
|authority=Mackenzie
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex hornschuchiana
|authority=Hoppe
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex hostiana var. laurentiana
|authority=(Fernald & Wiegand) Fernald & Wiegand
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Ceratocystis;Carex hostiana
|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. Ceratocystis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex hostiana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 521, 523
|treatment_page=page 524
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>not cespitose. <b>Culms</b> straight, 25–60 cm. <b>Leaves</b> of flowering stems shorter than stem, to 13.5 cm × 1.5–3.1(–4.3) mm. <b>Inflorescences</b>: peduncles of staminate spikes 5–70 mm; bracts 90 × 0.7–2.2 mm; inner band of sheaths with brown, convex projection to 3.2 mm. <b>Spikes</b>: proximal pistillate spikes 1–3(–4), distant, erect or ascending, usually conspicuously pedunculate, ovoid to short-cylindric, proximal 10–20 × 5–9.5 mm; terminal staminate spikes 10–33 × 1.6–4.2 mm. <b>Scales</b>: pistillate scales dark brown, 2.1–3.9 × 1.4–2.4 mm, margins conspicuously white-hyaline; staminate scales with broad, white, hyaline margins. <b>Anthers</b> 2–3.6 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> ascending, yellowish, 3.1–5.5 × 1.2–2.1 mm, apex gradually narrowed into straight, serrulate beak; beak 0.7–1.6 mm. <b>Achenes</b> 1.5–2 × 1–1.5 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Moist to wet, open fens and meadows, on lime-rich soils
|elevation=0–500 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;Nfld. and Labr.;Que.;Mass.;Europe.
|discussion=<p>Carex hostiana was last collected in Massachusetts prior to 1836.</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=crins1987a
|text=Crins, W. J. and P. W. Ball. 1987. Variation in Carex hostiana (Cyperaceae). Rhodora 89: 247–259.
}}
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name=Carex hostiana
|author=
|authority=de Candolle
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex fulvescens;Carex hornschuchiana;Carex hostiana var. laurentiana
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Moist to wet, open fens and meadows, on lime-rich soils
|elevation=0–500 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;Nfld. and Labr.;Que.;Mass.;Europe.
|reference=crins1987a
|publication title=Cat. Pl. Hort. Monsp.,
|publication year=1813
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_979.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Ceratocystis
|species=Carex hostiana
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