Carex sylvatica

Ssp latifrons: Enlisaz; Ssp sylvatica: Merasazı

Caespitose with short, curved rhizomes. Stems 15-100 cm, erect but slender and often nodding above, bluntly trigonous, smooth; basal sheaths hyaline, becoming pale brown. Leaves 3.5-16 mm broad, shorter than stems, flat to flattened-plicate, rather flaccid. Male spikes usually 1, narrow. Female spikes 3-5, narrowly cylindrical, 2-6 cm, lower distant, lowest sometimes arising from lower 1/3 of stem, pendent; peduncles rough at least above, filiform, to 3 x spike; lowest bracts often exceeding spike, sheath to 8 cm. Female glumes ovate-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, sometimes scabrid above, often 3-veined, pale green or pale brown, hyaline-margined, c. as long as or usually shorter than utricles. Utricles green or pale brownish-green when ripe, obovoid- to ellipsoid-trigonous, 3-5.8 mm, usually veinless, smooth or sometimes ± scabrid on adaxial side, tapering into long, slender, slightly oblique, smooth or scabrid, ± bifid beak to 2 mm with scabrid, somewhat hyaline orifice. Nut pale brown, minutely aculeate.

1-Leaves 3.5-8 mm broad, mid-green; lower 1-3 bracts leaf-like but usually distinctly narrower than basal leaves; utricles pale green to pale brown, 3.8-5.8 mm, suberect; beak often distinctly bifid subsp. sylvatica

1-Leaves 7.8-16 mm broad, pale yellowish-green, rather abruptly narrowed at apex; lower 3-4 bracts leaf-like, usually as broad as basal leaves or broader; utricles bright green, 3-4.2 mm, ± patent, rather abruptly narrowed into beak; beak weakly bidenticulate subsp. latifrons