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|accepted_name=Carex incurviformis
|accepted_authority=Mackenzie in P. A. Rydberg
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in P. A. Rydberg, Fl. Rocky Mts.,
|place=120, 1060. 1917
|year=1917
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex danaensis
|authority=Stacey
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|name=Carex incurviformis var. danaensis
|authority=(Stacey) F. J. Hermann
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|name=Carex maritima var. incurviformis
|authority=(Mackenzie) B. Boivin
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Foetidae;Carex incurviformis
|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. Foetidae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex incurviformis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 310
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>colonial. <b>Culms</b> curved, bluntly trigonous, 2–12 cm, smooth-angled distally. <b>Leaves</b>: basal sheaths brown; ligules 0.3–0.6 mm; blades involute, ± equaling culms, 0.5–1.5 mm wide. <b>Inflorescences</b> 0.5–1.2 cm; spikes (3–)5–7, essentially indistinguishable in dense hemispheric head. <b>Pistillate</b> scales brown to dark brown, with narrow whitish hyaline margins, ovate, conspicuously shorter than perigynia, apex ± acute to acuminate, body shiny. <b>Anthers</b> 0.9–1.4 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> light brown proximally, dark brown distally, usually strongly 8–11-veined abaxially, 4–11-veined adaxially, not or little inflated, narrowly elliptic, 2.9–3.9 × 1–1.5(–1.6) mm, leathery, dull to satiny; stipe 0.2–0.4 mm; beak poorly defined, 0.4–0.9 mm, smooth or slightly scabrous-margined.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Alpine tundra, on wet gravels, rocky ledges, often in mossy turf or moss hummocks, usually uncommon
|elevation=1900–4400 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Alaska;Calif.;Colo.;Mont.;Wyo.
|discussion=<p><i>Carex incurviformis</i> is an alpine member of the <i>C. maritima</i> complex, and seems clearly (though subtly) distinct from the widespread and variable <i>C. maritima</i>, which in North America is a lowland and mostly coastal species. It is tentatively accorded species rank pending a comprehensive, worldwide revision of the complex even though, in other regions, apparently typical <i>C. maritima</i> does occur in alpine settings.</p><!--
--><p>Plants of California especially and, to a lesser extent, the southern Rockies have broader, blunter scales with slighty wider hyaline margins than plants of the northern Rockies. California plants were described as <i>Carex</i> danaensis Stacey. As more collections accumulated, F. J. Hermann (1955) noted that the distinctions between C. danaensis and <i>C. incurviformis</i> were slight. He recognized C. danaensis only as a variety of <i>C. incurviformis</i> and expanded its range to include Colorado. With even more material the distinctions appear to be no more than a regional trend and are not given formal recognition.</p>
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name=Carex incurviformis
|author=
|authority=Mackenzie in P. A. Rydberg
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex danaensis;Carex incurviformis var. danaensis;Carex maritima var. incurviformis
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Alpine tundra, on wet gravels, rocky ledges, often in mossy turf or moss hummocks, usually uncommon
|elevation=1900–4400 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Alaska;Calif.;Colo.;Mont.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=in P. A. Rydberg, Fl. Rocky Mts.,
|publication year=1917
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_542.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Foetidae
|species=Carex incurviformis
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