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|accepted_name=Carex albolutescens
|accepted_authority=Schweinitz
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York
|place=1: 66. 1824
|year=1824
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W1
|label=
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|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Ovales;Carex albolutescens
|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 albolutescens]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 336, 337, 367, 368, 373
|treatment_page=page 369
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose. <b>Culms</b> 25–120 cm; vegetative culms inconspicuous with few leaves clustered at apex. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths conspicuously green-veined adaxially nearly to apex, narrow hyaline band or sharp Y-shaped region at collar, adaxially firm, summits U-shaped, not prolonged; distal ligules 1.5–4.5 mm; blades 3–5 per fertile culm, 9–25 cm × 2–3.5 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> erect, open, yellow-green to brown, 1.5–4 cm × 4–12 mm; proximal internode 3–12 mm; 2d internode 3–9 mm; proximal bracts scalelike, with bristle tips, shorter than inflorescences. <b>Spikes</b> 2–8, distinct, ellipsoid to globose, 5–13 × 4–6.5 mm, base acute, apex rounded; staminate portion of well-developed spikes less than 2 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> scales white-hyaline or brown, with green midstripe, broadly lanceolate or ovate, 2.5–3.4 mm, longer and narrower than perigynia, apex acute. <b>Perigynia</b> spreading, green to light brown, conspicuously 4–many-veined on each face, winged to base, obovate, flat except over achene or somewhat plano-convex, 2.6–4.5 × 1.5–2.7 mm, 0.3–0.45 mm thick, margin flat, including wing 0.4–0.7 mm wide; beak pale brown at tip, flat, ciliate-serrulate, abaxial suture with white or brown hyaline margin, distance from beak tip to achene 1–2 mm. <b>Achenes</b> oblong, 1.3–1.7 × 0.75–1 mm, 0.3–0.4 mm thick; styles laterally sinuate. <b>2n</b> = 66.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting early–mid summer.
|habitat=Acidic swamps, low woods, thickets
|elevation=0–300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.
|discussion=<p><i>Carex albolutescens</i> is easily confused with <i>C. festucacea</i>, which has orbiculate or broadly ovate, plumply plano-convex perignyia bodies, broader (usually more than 1 mm wide), more ovoid achenes, and straight or abaxial-adaxially bent styles (P. E. Rothrock 1991).</p><!--
--><p>See note under 146. <i>Carex longii</i>.</p>
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name=Carex albolutescens
|authority=Schweinitz
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting early–mid summer.
|habitat=Acidic swamps, low woods, thickets
|elevation=0–300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York
|publication year=1824
|special status=W1;Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Ovales
|species=Carex albolutescens
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