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 : 312

Sect. Mitratae Kük.

Caespitose, often with creeping rhizomes. Stems trigonous, usually scabrid above. Male spike usually solitary, sessile or shortly pedunculate. Female spikes ovoid to oblong, dense; lowest bract glumaceous to leaf-like, sheathing. Female glumes ovate-lanceolate to obovate, obtuse to acuminate, usually with a scarious margin. Utricles obovoid, membranous, more or less puberulent, with a usually short, emarginate beak. Stigmas 3.