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|accepted_name=Carex deflexa
|accepted_authority=Hornemann
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fors. Oecon. Plantel. ed.
|place=3, 1: 938. 1821
|year=1821
}}
|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. Acrocystis;Carex deflexa
|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. Acrocystis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex deflexa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 532, 533, 534, 536, 548
|treatment_page=page 535
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>usually loosely cespitose; rhizomes spreading to erect, purplish brown to reddish brown, 0–10 mm, slender. <b>Culms</b> arching to spreading, 5–31 cm, smooth or scabrous distally; bases (remnants of old leaves) weakly or not at all fibrous. <b>Leaf</b> blades pale green, shorter to longer than culms, 0.9–2.6(–3.2) mm wide, herbaceous, glabrous abaxially, scabrous adaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b> with both staminate and pistillate spikes; peduncles of basal spikes slender, elongate, erect; peduncles of distal spikes 0.6–4(–10) mm; proximal nonbasal bracts leaflike, equaling or exceeding inflorescences. <b>Spikes</b>: pistillate spikes 1–4 (basal spikes 0–2); cauline spikes overlapping, separated by less than 7 mm, with 4–15 perigynia; distal staminate spikes 3.1–11.3 × 0.7–2.7 mm. <b>Scales</b>: pistillate scales pale to dark reddish brown, with narrow to broad white margins, ovate, 2–2.8 × 1–1.8 mm, shorter than perigynia, apex obutse, acute, or acuminate (cuspidate on some basal spikes); staminate scales ovate, 2.4–4 × 1–1.9 mm, apex acute to acuminate. <b>Anthers</b> 1.2–2.5 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> yellowish green to grayish green, veinless, globose to obovoid, 2.3–3.1 × 1–1.4 mm, as long as or longer than wide; beak often bent, pale green, occasionally with reddish brown tinge, 0.4–0.8 mm, ciliate-serrulate, apical teeth 0.1–0.2 mm. <b>Stigmas</b> 3. <b>Achenes</b> brown, obovoid, obtusely trigonous in cross section, 1.3–1.6 × 1–1.4 mm.</span><!--

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|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;N.S.;N.W.T.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Calif.;Colo.;Conn.;Idaho;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Mont.;N.H.;N.Y.;Oreg.;Utah;Vt.;W.Va.;Wash.;Wis.;Wyo.
|discussion=<p>Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).</p>
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Staminate spikes 3.1–5.7 × 0.7–1.1 mm.
|[[Carex deflexa var. deflexa|Carex deflexa var. deflexa]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Staminate spikes 6.3–11.3 × 1–2.7 mm.
|[[Carex deflexa var. boottii|Carex deflexa var. boottii]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex deflexa
|authority=Hornemann
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;N.S.;N.W.T.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Calif.;Colo.;Conn.;Idaho;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Mont.;N.H.;N.Y.;Oreg.;Utah;Vt.;W.Va.;Wash.;Wis.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fors. Oecon. Plantel. ed.
|publication year=1821
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_1003.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Acrocystis
|species=Carex deflexa
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