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|accepted_name=Carex stenoptila
|accepted_authority=F. J. Hermann
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Leafl. W. Bot.
|place=4: 194. 1945
|year=1945
}}
|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. Ovales;Carex stenoptila
|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. Ovales]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex stenoptila]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 343, 350
|treatment_page=page 351
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose. <b>Culms</b> with angles smooth proximally, 17–70 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths adaxially white-hyaline, often tinged brown distally, summit usually U-shaped, sometimes prolonged to 1.5 mm beyond collar; distal ligules 0.5–1.5(–3) mm; blades (2–)3–4 per fertile culm, 8–20 cm × 2.2–3.8 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> dense, dark or chestnut brown or brown and green (gold), 1.2–2(–2.5) cm × 8–15 mm; proximal internode 1–3(–4) mm; 2d internode 0.5–3 mm; proximal bracts usually bristlelike, shorter than inflorescences. <b>Spikes</b> 5–9(–12), densely aggregated, individually indistinct, ovoid or broadly ovoid, 7.5–11 × 3.5–6.5 mm, base rounded to attenuate, apex truncate to tapered. <b>Pistillate</b> scales gold to brown, with pale to gold midstripe, lanceolate to ovate, 3.1–3.8 mm, shorter than and narrower than or as wide as perigynia, margin usually not white, apex obtuse to long-acute. <b>Perigynia</b> appressed-ascending to ascending, green to straw colored, conspicuously 6–8-veined abaxially, conspicuously 3–4(–6)-veined adaxially, at least 3 veins longer than achene, narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, biconvex, 4–5.1 × 1–1.3(–1.5) mm, (0.4–)0.5–0.55 mm thick, margin flat, including wing 0.1–0.25 mm wide, ciliate-serrulate at least on distal body, pithlike tissue usually present in proximal perigynium walls; beak usually dark brown at tip, cylindric, unwinged, ± entire for 0.5–0.9 mm, abaxial suture inconspicuous or with white margin, distance from beak tip to achene 2.2–3.1 mm. <b>Achenes</b> narrowly elliptic to oblong, (1.1–)1.4–1.8 × 0.6–0.9 mm, 0.3–0.5 mm thick.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late summer.
|habitat=Open rocky places, coniferous woods
|elevation=2400–2900 m
|distribution=Colo.;Mont.;Utah;Wyo.
|tables=
|references=
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name=Carex stenoptila
|authority=F. J. Hermann
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late summer.
|habitat=Open rocky places, coniferous woods
|elevation=2400–2900 m
|distribution=Colo.;Mont.;Utah;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Leafl. W. Bot.
|publication year=1945
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Ovales
|species=Carex stenoptila
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