米柱薹草组 mi zhu tai cao zu

Authors: Lun-Kai Dai & Tetsuo Koyama

Rhizome stoloniferous. Involucral bracts not sheathed. Spikes few, remote; terminal spike male; lateral spikes female, densely many flowered, sessile or shortly pedunculate. Female glumes purple-brown, ovate. Utricles yellow-brown, obliquely patent, ovate or broadly ovate, inflated trigonous, subleathery, papillose, distinctly veined, apex abruptly narrowed into a very short beak, orifice emarginate. Style base thickened; stigmas 3.

One species: NE China, Korea, E Russia.

Lower Taxon

• Carex glauciformis Meinshausen