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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex praeceptorum
|accepted_authority=Mackenzie in N. L. Britton et al.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl.
|place=18: 95. 1931
|year=1931
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex canescens var. dubia
|authority=L. H. Bailey
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex heleonastes var. dubia
|authority=(L. H. Bailey) B. Boivin
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Glareosae;Carex praeceptorum
|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. Glareosae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex praeceptorum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 313, 317
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>loosely or densely cespitose, in small clumps; rhizomes short. <b>Culms</b> usually erect, slender, 10–20(–30) cm. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths pale brown abaxially, inner band thin, hyaline, sometimes red tinged, concave at summit; ligules as long as wide; blades pale to gray-green, flat, 5–15 cm × 1.5–2.5 mm, shorter than culms, thin. <b>Inflorescences</b> 1–1.5(–2) cm × 5–10 mm; proximal bracts bristlelike, prolonged, distal bracts scalelike. <b>Spikes</b> 3–5, gynecandrous, approximate, sessile, containing 8–15(–20) perigynia; terminal spike staminate for less than 1/2 of length, shortly clavate, oblong-ovoid, 4–7 × 3–5 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> scales light chestnut-brown with lighter center and hyaline margins, ovate, subequal to perigynia, apex obtuse. <b>Perigynia</b> appressed-ascending, pale brown, often darker brown in age, finely several-veined, elliptic-ovate, 1.5–2 × 1 mm, widest near middle, membranous; beak short, entire or slightly serrulate. <b>Achenes</b> pale brown, broadly obovate, 1.25 × 0.8–1 mm, dull to slightly glossy.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting Jul–Sep.
|habitat=Boggy places, wet soil around montane ponds and lakes
|elevation=2300–3500 m
|distribution=B.C.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
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|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex praeceptorum
|authority=Mackenzie in N. L. Britton et al.
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex canescens var. dubia;Carex heleonastes var. dubia
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting Jul–Sep.
|habitat=Boggy places, wet soil around montane ponds and lakes
|elevation=2300–3500 m
|distribution=B.C.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl.
|publication year=1931
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_563.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Glareosae
|species=Carex praeceptorum
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