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|accepted_name=Carex abscondita
|accepted_authority=Mackenzie
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=37: 244. 1910
|year=1910
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Carex ptychocarpa
|authority=Steudel
|rank=species
|publication_title=Syn. Pl. Glumac.,
|publication_place=234. 1855,
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Careyanae;Carex abscondita
|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. Careyanae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex abscondita]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 445, 454, 455, 456
|treatment_page=page 444
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>loosely or densely cespitose. <b>Culms</b> erect or ascending, 7–30 cm × 0.2–0.5 mm; vegetative shoots taller than culms, (1.4–)1.7–3.7(–4.9) times as tall as tallest flowering culm, blades of vegetative shoots 1–3.5 times wider than bract blades. <b>Leaves</b>: basal sheaths white to light brown; nonbasal sheaths 1–4 mm; blades erect, drooping or recurved, dark green to grayish blue-green, 11–38 cm × 3–9 mm, usually exceeding culms. <b>Inflorescences</b>: spikes (3–)4 per culm, scattered; peduncles of proximal pistillate spikes erect, 3–15 mm; bracts dark green to glaucous, 1–10.5 cm × 1.5–4 mm, well developed, blade of distal lateral spike 5.6–17(–26) times as long as wide. <b>Pistillate</b> spikes: proximal usually basal, proximal spikes on usually erect peduncles, distal sessile to very short-pedunculate, 6–12 × 3.5–6 mm, often hidden in foliage. <b>Staminate</b> spike sessile or nearly so, (3.5–)4.5–10.2(–11.5) × 0.6–1.4(–1.6) mm, often hidden by distal bract and/or pistillate spikes. <b>Pistillate</b> scales 1.5–2 × 0.8–1 mm, midribs green, margins hyaline, apex acute, proximal scales of lateral spikes subtending perigynia. <b>Staminate</b> scales 2.6–3.6(–3.8) × 0.8–1 mm, midribs green, margins hyaline, apex obtuse. <b>Anthers</b> 1.2–1.8 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> (3–)8–13 per spike, spirally overlapping, finely veined, obovoid, 2.8–4.2 × 1.4–2 mm; beak tapering. <b>Achenes</b> ellipsoid, 2.6–4 × 1.2–1.8 mm, sides flat at maturity, filling perigynia. <b>Style</b> short, tapering from swelling just beyond attachment to achene, bent, ascending through entire orifice.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Rich, moist, wet slopes or bottomlands, deciduous or mixed deciduous-evergreen forests, on or just above flood plain of streams and rivers
|elevation=0–600 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Mass.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex abscondita
|authority=Mackenzie
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Carex ptychocarpa
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Rich, moist, wet slopes or bottomlands, deciduous or mixed deciduous-evergreen forests, on or just above flood plain of streams and rivers
|elevation=0–600 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Mass.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1910
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Careyanae
|species=Carex abscondita
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