Carex, Kuk.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1980, Flora Europaea. Volume 5. Alismataceae to Orchidaceae (Monocotyledones), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 307

Sect. Rhomboidales Kük.

Caespitose or not. Stems trigonous, smooth or scabrid. Male spike solitary, cylindrical to oblongclavate, pedunculate. Female spikes oblong to cylindrical, lax or dense, erect, distant; lowest bract leaf-like, sheathing. Female glumes ovate, acute or acuminate to mucronate, usually with a scarious margin. Utricles obovoid or obovoid-ellipsoid, membranous or subcoriaceous, glabrous or pubescent, abruptly contracted into beak. Stigmas 3.