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Cyperaceae taxon details

Carex hostiana DC.

1676428  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1676428)

accepted
Species
Carex armena Boiss. · unaccepted
Carex fulva Host · unaccepted
Carex greeniana Dewey · unaccepted
Carex subsalsa Nyman · unaccepted
Carex trigona All. · unaccepted
Trasus fulvus Gray · unaccepted

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(1813). Catalogus plantarum Horti Botanici Monspeliensis. , available online at https://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/viewer/10305/?offset=#page=1&viewer=picture&o=bookmark&n=0&q=
page(s): 88 [details] 
Description Plants not cespitose. Culms straight, 25–60 cm. Leaves of flowering stems shorter than stem, to 13.5 cm ×...  
Description Plants not cespitose. Culms straight, 25–60 cm. Leaves of flowering stems shorter than stem, to 13.5 cm × 1.5–3.1(–4.3) mm. Inflorescences: peduncles of staminate spikes 5–70 mm; bracts 90 × 0.7–2.2 mm; inner band of sheaths with brown, convex projection to 3.2 mm. Spikes: proximal pistillate spikes 1–3(–4), distant, erect or ascending, usually conspicuously pedunculate, ovoid to short-cylindric, proximal 10–20 × 5–9.5 mm; terminal staminate spikes 10–33 × 1.6–4.2 mm. Scales: pistillate scales dark brown, 2.1–3.9 × 1.4–2.4 mm, margins conspicuously white-hyaline; staminate scales with broad, white, hyaline margins. Anthers 2–3.6 mm. Perigynia ascending, yellowish, 3.1–5.5 × 1.2–2.1 mm, apex gradually narrowed into straight, serrulate beak; beak 0.7–1.6 mm. Achenes 1.5–2 × 1–1.5 mm.
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Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Cat. Pl. Horti Monsp. 88 1813 to Cat. Pl. Horti Monsp. : 88 (1813),...  
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Cat. Pl. Horti Monsp. 88 1813 to Cat. Pl. Horti Monsp. : 88 (1813), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be found in [details]
Cyperaceae Working Group. (2025). [see How to cite]. Global Cyperaceae Database. Carex hostiana DC.. Accessed at: https://cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1676428 on 2025-09-13
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Nomenclature

original description (1813). Catalogus plantarum Horti Botanici Monspeliensis. , available online at https://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/viewer/10305/?offset=#page=1&viewer=picture&o=bookmark&n=0&q=
page(s): 88 [details] 

basis of record Plants of the World Online (POWO). , available online at https://powo.science.kew.org/ [details] 

 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Syntype (of Carex hornschuchiana Hoppe) G 00191479, geounit Austria [details]
From editor or global species database
Description Plants not cespitose. Culms straight, 25–60 cm. Leaves of flowering stems shorter than stem, to 13.5 cm × 1.5–3.1(–4.3) mm. Inflorescences: peduncles of staminate spikes 5–70 mm; bracts 90 × 0.7–2.2 mm; inner band of sheaths with brown, convex projection to 3.2 mm. Spikes: proximal pistillate spikes 1–3(–4), distant, erect or ascending, usually conspicuously pedunculate, ovoid to short-cylindric, proximal 10–20 × 5–9.5 mm; terminal staminate spikes 10–33 × 1.6–4.2 mm. Scales: pistillate scales dark brown, 2.1–3.9 × 1.4–2.4 mm, margins conspicuously white-hyaline; staminate scales with broad, white, hyaline margins. Anthers 2–3.6 mm. Perigynia ascending, yellowish, 3.1–5.5 × 1.2–2.1 mm, apex gradually narrowed into straight, serrulate beak; beak 0.7–1.6 mm. Achenes 1.5–2 × 1–1.5 mm.
 [details]

Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Cat. Pl. Horti Monsp. 88 1813 to Cat. Pl. Horti Monsp. : 88 (1813), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be found in [details]