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Carex siderosticta Hance  
Family: Cyperaceae
[Carex ciliatomarginata (Nakai) Nakai, moreCarex platyphylla Franch., Carex siderosticta f. albomarginata Y.N.Lee, Carex siderosticta f. stenophylla Kitag., Carex siderosticta f. variegata (Akiyama) T.Koyama, Carex siderosticta subsp. pilosa (H.L?. ex Nakai) T.Koyama, Carex siderosticta var. bracteosa Franch., Carex siderosticta var. ciliatomarginata Nakai, Carex siderosticta var. glabra Ohwi, Carex siderosticta var. pilosa H.L?. ex Nakai, Carex siderosticta var. stenophylla (Kitag.) Kitag., Carex siderosticta var. variegata Akiyama, Pseudocarex plantaginea Miq.]
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Japan Flora: Rhi­zomes creeping, elongate, slender; culms few, 10-40 cm. long, with only a few sheaths at the base; leaves of sterile fascicles with broadly lanceolate to lanceolate blades 1-3 cm. wide, thin, soft, glabrous or sparsely puberulent, scabrous on margins; spikes 4-8, androgynous, erect, short-cylindric, few-flowered, 1-2 cm. long, the bracts spathaceous, the sheath ampliate above, usually bladeless; pistillate scales oblong, obtuse, fre­quently brown-spotted; perigynia 3 nim. long, ellipsoidal, 3-angled, pale green, membranous, glabrous, slenderly nerved, the beak extremely short, with an entire tip; stigmas 3, slender, elongate. Apr.-May. Woods in mountains. 

Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; rather common. Korea, Ussuri, Manchuria, and China.

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