Carex subfusca

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|image=Starr 041006-0050 Carex macloviana subsp. subfusca.jpg

|image_caption=In Maui

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|image2_caption=Close-up of seedhead

|genus=Carex

|species=subfusca

|authority=W.Boott

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• Carex festiva var. gracilis {{small|Olney}}
• Carex flaviceps {{small|Kük.}}
• Carex macloviana f. bracteata {{small|(Kük.) Kük.}}
• Carex macloviana var. bracteata {{small|Kük.}}
• Carex macloviana var. gracilis {{small|(Olney) Kük.}}
• Carex macloviana var. subfusca {{small|(W.Boott) Kük.}}
• Carex macloviana subsp. subfusca {{small|(W.Boott) T.Koyama}}
• Carex pachystachya var. gracilis {{small|(Olney) Mack.}}
• Carex stenoptera {{small|Mack.}}
• Carex teneriformis {{small|Mack.}}

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Carex subfusca, variously called the rusty slender sedge, rusty sedge, or brown sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cyperaceae, native to the Hawaiian Islands, the western United States, and Baja California.{{cite POWO |id=310203-2 |title=Carex subfusca W.Boott |access-date=4 September 2023 }}{{cite web |url=https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=CASU6 |title=Carex subfusca W. Boott |author= |date=30 October 2020 |website=Plant Database |publisher=Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center |access-date=4 September 2023 }} It is surmised that it came to Hawaii by being deposited by a bird (epizoochory).{{cite journal |title=Origins of the Hawaiian flora: Phylogenies and biogeography reveal patterns of long‐distance dispersal |date=2018 |last1=Price |first1=Jonathan P. |last2=Wagner |first2=Warren L. |journal=Journal of Systematics and Evolution |volume=56 |issue=6 |pages=600–620 |doi=10.1111/jse.12465 |s2cid=91492313 |doi-access=free }}

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