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Carex depauperata Curtis ex With.

starved wood-sedge (Cyperaceae)

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Carex depauperata is a very rare sedge of woodland margins that grows at 2 or 3 sites in southern England.

Godalming (VC17: Surrey); 2016-05-17

 starved wood-sedge / Carex depauperata: _Carex depauperata_ is a very rare sedge of woodland margins that grows at 2 or 3 sites in southern England.

Carex depauperata has the longest utricles of any British sedge.

Godalming (VC17: Surrey); 2016-05-17

 starved wood-sedge / Carex depauperata: _Carex depauperata_ has the longest utricles of any British sedge.

The leaf-sheaths of Carex depauperata are suffused with a deep red pigment, and the stem is only very weakly 3-angled.

Godalming (VC17: Surrey); 2016-05-17

 starved wood-sedge / Carex depauperata: The leaf-sheaths of _Carex depauperata_ are suffused with a deep red pigment, and the stem is only very weakly 3-angled.

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