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|accepted_name=Carex nova
|accepted_authority=L. H. Bailey
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=J. Bot.
|place=26: 322. 1888
|year=1888
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex elbertana
|authority=Kelso
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex nova var. erxlebenii
|authority=Kelso
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex violacea
|authority=
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Racemosae;Carex nova
|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. Racemosae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex nova]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 402, 410
|treatment_page=page 412
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>cespitose. <b>Culms</b> 15–60 cm, proximally scabrous. <b>Leaves</b> 2.5–4 mm wide. <b>Inflorescences</b>: proximal bracts usually shorter than, sometimes equaling, occasionally exceeding, inflorescences; spikes spreading or erect, overlapping, contiguous, forming dense terminal cluster or, sometimes, proximal spikes separate, sessile, short-oblong, 7–12 × 6–10 mm; lateral 2–3 spikes pistillate; terminal spike gynecandrous. <b>Pistillate</b> scales dark brown or black, distal margins often hyaline, ovate or lanceolate, shorter than or as long and broad as pergynia, midvein same color as body, inconspicuous, apex acute. <b>Perigynia</b> ascending or spreading, pale yellow, dark brown or blackish with green or yellow-brown margins, veinless, ovate or, rarely, circular, 3–4 × 2–3 mm, apex abruptly beaked, papillose on distal margins and serrulate; beak 0.4–0.5 mm, shallowly or deeply bidentate, often serrulate. <b>Achenes</b> filling proximal 1/2 or less of perigynia.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Moist subalpine and alpine meadows, lake and stream margins
|elevation=3000–3700 m
|distribution=Colo.;Nev.;N.Mex.;Utah;Wyo.
|discussion=<p><i>Carex nova</i> is represented in Russia and Mongolia by the vicariant C. melanocephala Turczaninow.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex nova
|authority=L. H. Bailey
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex elbertana;Carex nova var. erxlebenii;Carex violacea
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Moist subalpine and alpine meadows, lake and stream margins
|elevation=3000–3700 m
|distribution=Colo.;Nev.;N.Mex.;Utah;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=J. Bot.
|publication year=1888
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Racemosae
|species=Carex nova
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