异株薹草组 yi zhu tai cao zu

Authors: Yancheng Tang, Shuren Zhang & Tetsuo Koyama

Inflorescence 1-spiked, terminal, often unisexual and plants dioecious, rarely male spike with female flowers at base. Utricles ovate to lanceolate, subleathery, base spongy, apex shortly beaked. Nutlet lenticular; stigmas 2.

Between four and six species: circumboreal in Asia, Europe, and North America; one species in China.

Lower Taxon

• Carex gynocrates Wormskjöld ex Drejer