Carex brunnipes grows in wet meadows, streambanks, and moist clearings in coniferous forests at 2900-3100 m in ... [details]

Carex flexirostris is known only from Oaxaca in moist, open pine and pine-oak forest at 2500-3000 m. Fruiting ... [details]

Fruit probably matures in late May or early June. [details]

details of perigynia, C. austromexicana resembles C. caxinensis and C. flexirostris Reznicek. The species is ... [details]

Carex caxinensis is a somewhat isolated species among Mexican and Central American Hymenochlaenae. Superficially, ... [details]

Carex flexirostris is very similar to C. perlonga. C. flexirostris differs from C. perlonga by its purple-tinged ... [details]

Carex huehueteca is clearly an ally of C. steyermarkii as noted by Standley and Steyermark (1947). In addition to ... [details]

Carex ixtapalucensis resembles C. conspecta and differs from C. brunnipes in having glaucous leaves with the ... [details]

Carex pertenuis is similar to C. huehueteca and C. steyermarkii in having roots densely felted with yellow root ... [details]

Hermann (1974) recognized both C. pertenuis and C. venosivaginata. His descriptions of these two species are ... [details]

With leaves up to 25.5 mm wide, this species is the broadest-leaved Carex in tropical America. In the New World, ... [details]

Carex tunimanensis is an exception among Mexican and Central American species of sect. Hymenochlaenae in having ... [details]

Plants cespitose with short rhizomes; roots greyish brown, not densely felted with rootmhairs; fertile culms 40-70 ... [details]

Plants cespitose, with short rhizomes; roots pale brown, not densely felted with root hairs; fertile culms 35–105 ... [details]

Plants loosely cespitose, with short-creeping rhizomes; roots pale brown, not densely felted with root hairs; ... [details]

Plants cespitose, with short rhizomes; roots pale brown, not densely felted with root hairs; fertile culms 65-90 cm ... [details]

Plants cespitose, with short rhizomes; roots pale brown, not densely felted with root hairs; fertile culm 115 cm ... [details]

Plants cespitose, with short rhizomes; roots pale greyish brown, not densely felted with root hairs; fertile culms ... [details]

Plants cespitose, with short rhizomes; roots pale brown, felted with yellow root hairs when young; fertile culms ... [details]

Plants cespitose, with short rhizomes; roots brown, not densely felted with root hairs; fertile culms 75–85 cm ... [details]

Plants cespitose, with short rhizomes; roots greyish brown to dark brown, not densely felted with root hairs; ... [details]

Plants cespitose, with short rhizomes; roots pale brown to reddish brown, not densely felted with root hairs; ... [details]

Plants loosely cespitose, with ± elongate rhizomes; roots pale brown, felted with yellow root hairs when young; ... [details]

Plants loosely cespitose, with short-creeping rhizomes; roots yellowish brown, felted with yellow root hairs when ... [details]

Plants cespitose, with short, stout rhizomes clothed with persistent coriaceous, brown bases of leaf sheaths; roots ... [details]

Carex austromexicana fruits in late July through December and occurs in open, moist pine forest in Oaxaca (fig. 1) ... [details]

Carex caxinensis occurs on bluffs in the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes of Guatemala from 2400 to 3700 m. Mature fruit ... [details]

Carex mackenziana is known from the Sierra Madre Oriental of Nuevo León. It fruits in late June and July and grows ... [details]

Carex perlonga occurs in moist forests and barrancas in Hidalgo and Veracruz between 1600 and 2000 m. Fruiting ... [details]

Carex pertenuis occurs in cloud forest between 1500 and 2600 m from the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes of Guatemala ... [details]

Carex steyermarkii is a forest species of Chiapas and western Guatemala, occurring from 1600–2600 m. Mature fruit ... [details]

Carex tunimanensis occurs in Chiapas and western Guatemala in moist forest and alpine meadows at elevations of 2800 ... [details]

Carex huehueteca is known only from the type locality. The holotype was collected along a stream. The holotype and ... [details]

The holotype of this species was a paratype of C. tojquianensis in sect. Fecundae (Hermann 1971), and the only ... [details]