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|accepted_name=Carex hormathodes
|accepted_authority=Fernald
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Rhodora
|place=8: 165. 1906
|year=1906
}}
|common_names=Carex moniliforme
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex straminea var. invisa
|authority=W. Boott
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Ovales;Carex hormathodes
|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. Ovales]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex hormathodes]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 335, 362, 364
|treatment_page=page 366
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose. <b>Culms</b> 20–80 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths adaxially conspicuously green-veined nearly to collar, narrow hyaline band or sharp Y-shaped region at collar; summits U-shaped; distal ligules 2–4 mm; blades 3–5 per fertile culm, 14–25 cm × 1–3 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> usually nodding, ± open, yellow-brown or reddish brown, 2.5–6 cm × 5–16 mm; proximal internode (2–)5–16 mm; 2d internode 5–17 mm; proximal bracts bristlelike. <b>Spikes</b> 3–9, distant, distinct, ellipsoid, 6–15 × 4–8 mm, base acute, apex obtuse; lateral spikes with staminate portion 2 mm or less at base. <b>Pistillate</b> scales reddish brown, often with green or pale midstripe, lanceolate, 3.5–4.9 mm, shorter and much narrower than perigynia, margin reddish brown, apex firm, acuminate or awned. <b>Perigynia</b> spreading, reddish brown, conspicuously 5-veined or more on each face, lance-ovate to weakly obovate, flat except over achene, 3.8–5.6 × 1.9–2.8 mm, 0.4–0.5 mm thick, base rounded, margin flat, including wing 0.4–0.7 mm wide; beak ascending, reddish brown at tip, flat, 1/2 length of body, ciliate-serrulate, abaxial suture with brown or reddish brown-hyaline margin, distance from beak tip to achene 2–3 mm. <b>Achenes</b> elliptic, 1.5–1.8 × 0.9–1.1 mm, 0.3–0.4 mm thick. <b>2n</b> = 74.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting mid summer.
|habitat=Maritime rock ledges, brackish or freshwater marshes, moist coastal sands
|elevation=0 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;P.E.I.;Que.;Conn.;Del.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;R.I.;Va.
|discussion=<p>Some authors have treated <i>Carex hormathodes</i> as a variety of <i>C. straminea</i>. Characteristics of the perignyium beak and spike base, as well as the distinctive habitat and range clearly differentiate the taxa (P. E. Rothrock et al. 1997).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex hormathodes
|authority=Fernald
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex straminea var. invisa
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting mid summer.
|habitat=Maritime rock ledges, brackish or freshwater marshes, moist coastal sands
|elevation=0 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;P.E.I.;Que.;Conn.;Del.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;R.I.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Rhodora
|publication year=1906
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_643.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Ovales
|species=Carex hormathodes
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