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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex cryptolepis
|accepted_authority=Mackenzie
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Torreya
|place=14: 157. 1914
|year=1914
}}
|common_names=Carex à écailles cachées
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Ceratocystis;Carex cryptolepis
|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 cryptolepis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 521, 523, 524
|treatment_page=page 525
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>cespitose. <b>Culms</b> straight, 10–50 cm, tallest ones 25–50 cm. <b>Leaves</b> of flowering stems usually shorter than culms, 5–20 cm × 1.5–2.9 mm; ligules on distal cauline leaves truncate or rounded. <b>Inflorescences</b>: peduncles of terminal staminate spikes 0.5–8 mm, 0.2–0.5 length of staminate spikes; bracts to 20 cm × 1.1–2.9 mm, 1.5–4 times as long as inflorescences; inner band of sheaths concave or truncate. <b>Spikes</b>: proximal pistillate spikes (1–)2–5, approximate, subsessile or short-pedunculate, globose to elliptic, 8.5–19.9 × 4.1–9.8 mm; terminal staminate spikes pedunculate, 12–21 × 1.3–2.7 mm. <b>Scales</b>: pistillate scales yellowish green, inconspicuous among perigynia, 1.7–2.6 × 0.8–1.2 mm; staminate scales yellowish green, ovate, 2.9–4.4 × 0.8–1.6 mm, apex obtuse or acute to acuminate. <b>Anthers</b> 1.1–2.9 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> reflexed, yellowish green, 3.5–4.8 × 1.1–1.7 mm, apex gradually narrowed; beak 1.4–2.5 mm, forming an angle of 13–48° with body, smooth. <b>Achenes</b> 1.2–1.5 × 1–1.2 mm. <b>2n</b> = 64.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Acidic, sandy or organic substrates on open, emergent shorelines, not found on lime-rich soils
|elevation=0–500 m
|distribution=N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Conn.;Ind.;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Ohio;R.I.;Vt.;Wis.
|discussion=<p>The name <i>Carex flava</i> var. fertilis Peck has been misapplied to <i>C. cryptolepis</i>.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex cryptolepis
|author=
|authority=Mackenzie
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Acidic, sandy or organic substrates on open, emergent shorelines, not found on lime-rich soils
|elevation=0–500 m
|distribution=N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Conn.;Ind.;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Ohio;R.I.;Vt.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Torreya
|publication year=1914
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_981.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Ceratocystis
|species=Carex cryptolepis
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