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|accepted_name=Carex styloflexa
|accepted_authority=Buckley
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Amer. J. Sci. Arts
|place=45: 174. 1843
|year=1843
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Laxiflorae;Carex styloflexa
|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. Laxiflorae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex styloflexa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 433, 435
|treatment_page=page 434
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Culms </b>densely tufted, central, ascending or lax, 24–82 cm × 0.8–1.6 mm. <b>Leaves</b>: basal sheaths light brown to brown; sheaths green or yellow-green, 2–26 mm; blades ascending, green or yellow-green, midrib well developed abaxially, 2 lateral veins well developed adaxially, flat, 18–44 cm × 12–14 mm, blade of overwintering leaves smooth abaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b>: peduncles of proximal spikes 0–12 cm, arising in proximal 1/3 of culm, distal lateral spikes not exerted; peduncles of terminal spike 0–2.8 cm; bracts 8–21 × 0.5–4 mm, blade of distal lateral spike linear, narrower than spikes; widest bract blade of distalmost lateral spike 0.5–3.4 mm wide. <b>Spikes</b> 3(–4) per culm; lateral spikes 6–9(–15) × 4–6 mm, distal ones separate; terminal spike 11–35 × 1.8–3 mm, exceeding distal lateral spike. <b>Pistillate</b> scales 2–2.5 × 0.8–1.2 mm, apex acute. <b>Staminate</b> scales 3.2–4.2 × 1–1.2 mm, margins hyaline or brown tinged, apex acute. <b>Anthers</b> 3.8–4 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> 4–20 per spike, closely to loosely overlapping, ratio of longer lateral spike length to perigynia number 0.8–3.4, aggregated, spreading, finely, conspicuously (22–)25–32-veined, narrowly elongate ovate, 3.5–5.5 × 1.2–1.6 mm, 1.9–2.3 times as long as achene bodies; beak excurved, 0.5–1.7 mm. <b>Achenes</b> elongate-obovoid, 2.2–3.2 × 1–1.4 mm. <b>2n</b> = 48.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring.
|habitat=Wet, sandy, acidic soils, around springs, seeps, and small streams, under deciduous or mixed deciduous-evergreen forests
|elevation=0–1000 m
|distribution=Ala.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Miss.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex styloflexa
|author=
|authority=Buckley
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|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring.
|habitat=Wet, sandy, acidic soils, around springs, seeps, and small streams, under deciduous or mixed deciduous-evergreen forests
|elevation=0–1000 m
|distribution=Ala.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Miss.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Amer. J. Sci. Arts
|publication year=1843
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Laxiflorae
|species=Carex styloflexa
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