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|accepted_name=Carex gigantea
|accepted_authority=Rudge
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Trans. Linn. Soc. London
|place=7: 99, plate 10, fig. 2. 1804
|year=1804
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Lupulinae;Carex gigantea
|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. Lupulinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex gigantea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 511, 513
|treatment_page=page 514
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>loosely cespitose or not, long-rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> solitary or not, erect, 35–120 cm. <b>Leaves</b> 4–8; basal sheaths reddish to brownish; sheath of distal leaf 5–20 cm; ligules triangular, 4.5–35 mm; blades 20–60 cm × 5–16 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> 15–40 cm; peduncles of basal 2 pistillate spikes 5–20 cm apart; of terminal 3–8 cm shorter than to somewhat exceeding the distal pistillate spike; bracts leafy, sheath 0.5–5 cm, blades 30–60 cm × 6–11 mm. <b>Spikes</b>: proximal pistillate spikes 2–5 per culm, ± separate, 20–75-flowered, cylindric, 3–8 × 2–3 cm; terminal staminate spikes 1–5, 2–8 cm × 2–4 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> scales 3–5-veined, lanceolate to lanceolate-ovate, 4.5–10.5 × 1.5–2 mm. <b>Anthers</b> 3, 2.8–5 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> stiffly spreading at right angles to rachis, lanceoloid to lance-ovoid, 11–18 × 4–6 mm, shiny, glabrous; beak conic, 6–9 mm. <b>Achenes</b> broadly stipitate, obconic with rounded to truncate summit and concave faces, angles strongly thickened, 2.2–2.6 × 2.7–3 mm; style same texture as achene.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late spring–early summer.
|habitat=Wet swamp forests, forest openings, open swamps
|elevation=0–400 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex gigantea
|author=
|authority=Rudge
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late spring–early summer.
|habitat=Wet swamp forests, forest openings, open swamps
|elevation=0–400 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Trans. Linn. Soc. London
|publication year=1804
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Lupulinae
|species=Carex gigantea
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