Fig. 275: Carex kptalea: a, pistillate flower with a part of the stipitate perigynium 

 attached, the achene obscurely trigonous, the style flexuous and the stigma bifid, X 16; 

 b, perigynium, many-striate and beakless, X 12; c, achene (cross section), X 16; d, 

 scale of pistillate flower, X 12; e, ligule, X 24; f, spike subtended by bractlike scale, the 

 inconspicuous staminate flowers at apex, X 6; g, scale of staminate flower, X 16; h, 

 habit, showing the very slender densely tufted culms extending above the leaves, X 7-,. 

 (From Mason, Fig. 108). 



