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Key to Carex, Key A: Subkey in Carex

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1 Leaf blades 20-60 mm wide, without a midrib (with 40-100 parallel nerves all of equal prominence), leathery, the apex obtuse; leaf margin scarious, minutely crisped-ruffled (feeling scaberulous to the touch)
1 Leaf blades 0.5-25 (-52) mm wide, with a midrib, herbaceous, the apex acute; leaf margin various (smooth or scabrous, but not as described below).
..2 Spike entirely staminate.
....3 Culms distinctly red or purple at the base
....3 Culms yellow to brown or black, without red or purple coloration.
......4 Culms shorter than the leaves; widest leaf blades > 2 mm wide
......4 Culms longer than the leaves; widest leaf blades < 2 mm wide
..2 Spike pistillate or with both pistillate and staminate flowers.
........5 Stigmas 2; achenes lenticular.
..........6 Perigynia very obscurely or not at all serrulate, plump; plants slender rhizomatous
..........6 Perigynia minutely but strongly and regularly serrulate on apical portion and beak, ± flattened; plants cespitose
........5 Stigmas 3; achenes trigonous.
............ 7 Perigynia glabrous.
............ ..8 Spikes gynecandrous; beak of perigynium with apical teeth > 0.3 mm long
............ ..8 Spikes androgynous or entirely pistillate; beak of perigynium with apex entire, emarginate, or with teeth < 0.2 mm long.
............ ....9 Lower pistillate scales < 10 mm long.
............ ......10 Perigynium beak > 2 mm long, as long as or longer than the perigynium body
............ ......10 Perigynium beak < 2 mm long, or if more, then tapering to the perigynium body and shorter than the body.
............ ........11 Perigynia < 4× as long as wide.
............ ..........12 Perigynia 2-13, each lightly many-veined on the body in addition to 2 marginal veins
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