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|accepted_name=Carex brevicaulis
|accepted_authority=Mackenzie
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=40: 547. 1913
|year=1913
}}
|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 brevicaulis
|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 brevicaulis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 533, 536
|treatment_page=page 538
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely to loosely cespitose; rhizomes horizontally spreading to ascending, brown to reddish brown, 0–10 mm, slender or stout. <b>Culms</b> 2–19 cm, strongly scabrous distally; bases and remnants of old leaves slightly fibrous. <b>Leaf</b> blades pale green, exceeding stems, 1.3–2(–3.5) mm wide, herbaceous to coriaceous, glabrous abaxially, scabrous to papillose adaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b> with both staminate or pistillate spikes; peduncles of basal spikes erect, elongate, slender; peduncles of staminate spikes 1.7–8.5(–21) mm; proximal nonbasal bracts scalelike, usually equaling or shorter than inflorescences, rarely longer. <b>Spikes</b>: proximal pistillate spikes 2–5 (basal spikes 1–3); cauline spikes usually separated, with 1–6 perigynia; staminate spikes 5.7–14.4 × 0.9–2.1 mm. <b>Scales</b>: pistillate scales reddish brown with narrow white margins, ovate, 3.2–6 × 2–2.2 mm, equaling or exceeding perigynia, apex acute to acuminate (short-awned in some basal spikes); staminate scales lanceolate, 4.1–5.1 × 2 mm, apex acute to obtuse. <b>Anthers</b> 2–2.5 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> pale bright green, finely 12–15veined near base, globose, round in cross section, 3.5–4.8 × 1.7–2.1 mm; beak straight, pale green, not strongly 2-edged, 0.6–1.6 mm, ciliate-serrulate, apical teeth 0.2–0.5 mm. <b>Stigmas</b> 3. <b>Achenes</b> brown, globose to obovoid, round in cross section, 1.9–2.4 × 1.6–2 mm. <b>2n</b> = 28.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late Mar–late Jun.
|habitat=Dry, open, sandy or rocky slopes, cliffs, and dunes
|elevation=0–90 m
|distribution=B.C.;Calif.;Oreg.
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|references=
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name=Carex brevicaulis
|authority=Mackenzie
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late Mar–late Jun.
|habitat=Dry, open, sandy or rocky slopes, cliffs, and dunes
|elevation=0–90 m
|distribution=B.C.;Calif.;Oreg.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1913
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Acrocystis
|species=Carex brevicaulis
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