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48. Carex sect. Rarae C. B. Clarke in J. D. Hooker, Fl. Brit. India. 6: 711. 1894.

单穗薹草组 dan sui tai cao zu

Authors: Yancheng Tang, Shuren Zhang & Tetsuo Koyama

Inflorescence 1-spiked, terminal, androgynous, rather densely flowered, spherical to oblong, rarely slightly cylindric, bractless at base. Utricles broadly ovate, oblong-lanceolate, or elliptic to ovate-oblong, membranous, estipitate, rarely shortly stipitate, nearly beakless to shortly beaked (rarely up to 1 mm), orifice toothless or minutely 2-toothed. Stigmas 3.

Seventeen species: Asia, Australia, Pacific islands (New Zealand); nine species (four endemic) in China.


1 Male part of spike developed, longer than to equaling female part, sometimes a little shorter than female part at flowering, but overtopping next lower utricle at maturity   (2)
+ Male part of spike less developed, much shorter than female part, not overtopping next lower utricle at maturity   (4)
       
2 (1) Female glumes mucronate at apex; utricles ovate-elliptic, ca. 3 mm, tapering above to a beak ca. 1 mm.   465 C. litorhyncha
+ Female glumes obtuse at apex; utricles broadly ovate, elliptic-ovate, or lanceolate-ovate, 1.5-3 mm, tapering above to a beak less than 1 mm   (3)
       
3 (2) Utricles broadly ovate to elliptic-ovate, 1.5-2.5 mm.   466 C. rara
+ Utricles lanceolate-ovate, 2.5-3 mm.   467 C. capillacea
       
4 (1) Stipe of utricle ca. 0.8 mm.   468 C. stipitiutriculata
+ Utricle estipitate (only C. uda with very short stipe)   (5)
       
5 (4) Utricles oblong-lanceolate, 3.5-4 mm   (6)
+ Utricles broadly ovate or elliptic to ovate-oblong, 2-3 mm   (7)
       
6 (5) Leaf blades 2-3 mm wide; utricles horizontally patent or reflexed at maturity.   469 C. uda
+ Leaf blades ca. 0.3 mm wide, hairlike; utricles suberect at maturity.   470 C. austro-occidentalis
       
7 (5) Utricles nearly beakless.   471 C. dahurica
+ Utricles shortly beaked   (8)
       
8 (7) Leaf blades flat, 1-1.5 mm wide; utricles 2.5-3 mm.   472 C. onoei
+ Leaf blades hairlike, 0.5-0.8 mm wide; utricles ca. 2 mm.   473 C. kirinensis

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