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|accepted_name=Carex godfreyi
|accepted_authority=Naczi
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Contr. Univ. Michigan Herb.
|place=19: 200, figs. 3a, b. 1993
|year=1993
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Griseae;Carex godfreyi
|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. Griseae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex godfreyi]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 450, 457, 461
|treatment_page=page 460
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely to loosely cespitose; rhizome internodes 1.2–2 mm thick. <b>Culms</b> dark purple-red to (3.4–)4–7.3 cm high at base, 8–65(–85) cm. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths glabrous; blades green, widest blades 2.4–4(–5.3) mm wide, smooth abaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b> 0.094–0.94 of culm height; peduncles of lateral spikes smooth or barely scaberulous; peduncles of terminal spikes 1.6–22(–51) mm, usually barely exceeding lateral spikes; proximal bract sheaths loose, glabrous abaxially, sheath front slightly concave to slightly convex, elongated 0.1–0.6(–1.1) mm beyond apex; ligules 0.9–3.9(–6.6) mm; distal bract slightly exceeding or rarely much exceeding terminal spike. <b>Spikes</b> (3–)4–5(–6), distal 2–4 overlapping; lateral spikes pistillate or rarely androgynous, with 3–19 perigynia, 5–26 × 4.6–9.2 mm, ratio of spike length (in mm) to flower number = 1.4–2.2; terminal spikes 7–37(–46) × 1–2.9 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> scales 2.1–5.3 × 1.2–2.4 mm, margins whitish, usually with red-brown speckles, entire, apex with awn 0.2–3.3 mm, rarely awnless. <b>Staminate</b> scales 3.3–4.8 × 1.1–1.6 mm. <b>Anthers</b> 2–2.8 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> spirally imbricate, 52–64-veined, unwrinkled to wrinkled, narrowly ellipsoid to obovoid, obtusely triangular in cross section, (4–) 4.3–5(–5.6) × 1.5–1.9(–2.1) mm, 2.4–2.9(–3.2) times as long as wide, lustrous, base very gradually tapered, apex gradually tapered; beak absent or straight, 0–0.2 mm. <b>Achenes</b> broadly obovoid to obovoid, (3–)3.1–3.5(–3.7) × 1.5–1.8 mm, loosely enveloped by perigynia; stipe straight, 0.6–0.8(–0.9) mm; beak usually straight, occasionally bent 10–30°, 0.3–0.6 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring.
|habitat=Wet hammocks, swamps, flood plains dominated by deciduous trees, usually in calcareous or sandy mucks
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;N.C.;S.C.
|discussion=<p><i>Carex godfreyi</i> is infrequent and local, even in Florida, where most populations occur. Frequent associates of <i>C. godfreyi</i> are <i>C. bromoides</i>, <i>C. gholsonii</i>, and <i>C. leptalea</i>.</p>
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name=Carex godfreyi
|authority=Naczi
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring.
|habitat=Wet hammocks, swamps, flood plains dominated by deciduous trees, usually in calcareous or sandy mucks
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;N.C.;S.C.
|reference=None
|publication title=Contr. Univ. Michigan Herb.
|publication year=1993
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_847.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Griseae
|species=Carex godfreyi
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