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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex bulbostylis
|accepted_authority=Mackenzie
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=42: 617. 1915
|year=1915
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex amphibola var. globosa
|authority=(L. H. Bailey) L. H. Bailey
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex grisea var. globosa
|authority=L. H. Bailey
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Griseae;Carex bulbostylis
|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. Griseae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex bulbostylis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 450, 453, 455, 460
|treatment_page=page 454
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose; rhizome internodes 1.6–2.2 mm thick. <b>Culms</b> strongly purple-red to 3–7.4 cm high at base, 10–65 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths glabrous; blades green, widest blades 2.2–3.5(–3.9) mm wide, smooth abaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b> 0.31–0.94 of culm height; peduncles of lateral spikes barely scaberulous or smooth; peduncles of terminal spikes 1.8–28 mm, usually slightly exceeding lateral spikes; proximal bract sheaths tight, abaxially glabrous, sheath front convex, elongated 0.3–1.1(–1.7) mm beyond apex; ligules 0.4–2.2 mm; distal bract usually much exceeding terminal spike. <b>Spikes</b> 4–5, widely separate or distal 2–3 spikes overlapping; lateral spikes pistillate, with (1–)3–9(–11) perigynia, 4–19 × 5.1–8.2(–10.2) mm, ratio of spike length (in mm) to flower number = 1.4–1.9; terminal spikes (7–)10–29 × 1.1–2.1(–3.1) mm. <b>Pistillate</b> scales 2.8–5.4 × 1.7–2.5 mm, margins whitish, entire, apex with awn 0.8–2.6 mm. <b>Staminate</b> scales 3.6–5 × 1–1.8 mm. <b>Anthers</b> 2.9–3.7 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> distichously imbricate, 51–67-veined, inflated, unwrinkled, oblong-obovoid, orbicular or suborbicular in cross section, 3.6–4.4 × (1.8–)2–2.5(–2.8) mm, 1.6–2(–2.1) times as long as wide, dull, base very gradually tapered, apex abruptly contracted; beak straight, 0–0.2(–0.3) mm. <b>Achenes</b> obovoid, 2.6–3.3 × 1.6–2.1 mm, loosely enveloped by perigynia; stipe straight, 0.3–0.7 mm; beak straight, 0.05–0.3 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring.
|habitat=Mesic deciduous forests, on flood plains and low on slopes just above flood plains, usually in calcium-rich loams and clay-loams
|elevation=30–300 m
|distribution=Ark.;La.;Miss.;Okla.;Tenn.;Tex.
|discussion=<p><i>Carex bulbostylis</i> is common within much of its rather narrow range. It often occurs with <i>C. amphibola</i> and <i>C. planispicata</i>.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex bulbostylis
|authority=Mackenzie
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex amphibola var. globosa;Carex grisea var. globosa
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring.
|habitat=Mesic deciduous forests, on flood plains and low on slopes just above flood plains, usually in calcium-rich loams and clay-loams
|illustrator=Barbara Alongi
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|elevation=30–300 m
|distribution=Ark.;La.;Miss.;Okla.;Tenn.;Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1915
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_835.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Griseae
|species=Carex bulbostylis
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