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|accepted_name=Carex barbarae
|accepted_authority=Dewey
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in W. H. Emory, Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound.
|place=2(1): 231. 1859
|year=1859
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|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex laciniata
|authority=Boott
|rank=species
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|name=Carex lacunarum
|authority=T. Holm
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Phacocystis;Carex barbarae
|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. Phacocystis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex barbarae]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 380, 386, 388
|treatment_page=page 387
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>not cespitose. <b>Culms</b> obtusely angled, 30–110 cm, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b>: basal sheaths brown; sheaths of proximal leaves scabrous, fronts with red-brown spots or uniformly red-brown, prominently ladder-fibrillose, apex U-shaped, red-brown; blades hypostomic, 4–9 mm wide, coriaceous, papillose abaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b>: proximal bract longer than inflorescence, 3–8 mm wide. <b>Spikes</b> erect, the proximal pendent, sessile or pedunculate; staminate 2–3; pistillate 4–6; the proximal pistillate spike 3–10 cm × 5–6 mm, base attenuate. <b>Pistillate</b> scales red-brown, longer than perigynia, apex acute, scabrous, awned, awn to 2 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> divergent, dark pale brown with red-brown spots on apical 1/2, faintly 3–5-veined on each face, somewhat inflated, loosely enclosing achenes, ellipsoid or obovoid, 3–4 × 2.2–2.5 mm, leathery, dull, apex rounded or obtuse, glabrous; beak red-brown, 0.5 mm, bidentate, orifice scabrous. <b>Achenes</b> not constricted, dull.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Wet meadows, fields, stream banks
|elevation=0–1000 m
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.
|discussion=<p>A widely distributed, variable species, <i>Carex barbarae</i> is best identified using material with well-developed perigynia. <i>Carex barbarae</i> shares distinctive characteristics with <i>C. obnupta</i>, particularly the sessile, pendent, basally acuminate spikes, the leathery leaves, and the inflated, leathery, glabrous perigynia. <i>Carex barbarae</i> differs in having the scales awned and scabrous at the apex, and the perigynia faintly veined and dull brown, with a scabrous, firm, bidentate beak, all of which are similar to those of <i>C. nebrascensis</i>. Mature fruiting plants of <i>C. barbarae</i> have rarely been collected, suggesting that the species is largely sterile. The relationships among these three species merit investigation because the morphology and sterility of <i>C. barbarae</i> suggest that it may have a hybrid origin.</p>
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name=Carex barbarae
|authority=Dewey
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex laciniata;Carex lacunarum
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Wet meadows, fields, stream banks
|elevation=0–1000 m
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.
|reference=None
|publication title=in W. H. Emory, Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound.
|publication year=1859
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_686.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Phacocystis
|species=Carex barbarae
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