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Cyperaceae taxon details

Carex kansuensis Nelmes

To Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Carex kansuensis K000961006 type 1)
To Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Carex kansuensis K000961006 type 1)

1676533  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1676533)

  1. Biota
  2. Plantae (Kingdom)
  3. Viridiplantae (Subkingdom)
  4. Streptophyta (Infrakingdom)
  5. Tracheophyta (Phylum (Division))
  6. Spermatophytina (Subphylum (Subdivision))
  7. Magnoliopsida (Class)
  8. Lilianae (Superorder)
  9. Poales (Order)
  10. Cyperaceae (Family)
  11. Cariceae (Tribe)
  12. Carex (Genus)
  13. Carex subg. Carex (Subgenus)
  14. Carex sect. Racemosae (Section)
  15. Carex kansuensis (Species)
accepted
Species
terrestrial
Nelmes, E. (1939). Notes on Carex: VII. Carex atrata L. and its allies. <em>Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Gardens, Kew).</em> 1939(4): 199-202., available online at https://www.jstor.org/stable/4111539
page(s): 201 [details] 
Description Rhizome short. Culms 45-100 cm tall, acutely trigonous, firm, clothed at base with purple bladeless sheaths. Leaves shorter...  
Description Rhizome short. Culms 45-100 cm tall, acutely trigonous, firm, clothed at base with purple bladeless sheaths. Leaves shorter than culm, blades broadly linear, 5-7 mm wide, flat, margins scabrous. Involucral bracts sheathless, lowest bracts shortly bladed, shorter than inflorescence, scabrous on margins, upper ones setaceous. Spikes 4-6, approximate; terminal spike gynaecandrous; lateral spikes female with a few male flowers at base, densely many flowered, oblong-cylindric, 1.5-3.5 cm; lowest peduncle (ca. 2 mm) slender, pendulous. Female glumes dark purple, elliptic-lanceolate, 4-4.5 mm, margins narrowly white hyaline, apex acuminate. Utricles stramineous, subequaling glume, compressed, sometimes upper yellow-brown or purple punctate, nerveless, apex abruptly contracted into a short beak, orifice 2-toothed. Nutlets loosely enveloped, oblong or obovate-oblong, trigonous, ca. 2 mm; stigmas 3.  [details]

Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1939(4): 201. [7 Jun 1939] to Bull. Misc....  
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1939(4): 201. [7 Jun 1939] to Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1939: 201 (1939), 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 kansuensis Nelmes. Accessed at: https://www.cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1676533 on 2025-09-12
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2023-09-06 07:28:28Z
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Jiménez-Mejías, Pedro
2024-12-10 11:47:54Z
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Márquez-Corro, José Ignacio

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Nomenclature

original description Nelmes, E. (1939). Notes on Carex: VII. Carex atrata L. and its allies. <em>Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Gardens, Kew).</em> 1939(4): 199-202., available online at https://www.jstor.org/stable/4111539
page(s): 201 [details] 

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

Other

additional source Li, B. Z.; Zhang, S. R. (2024). An updated species checklist and taxonomic synopsis of Cyperaceae in China. <em>Biodiversity Science.</em> 32(7): 24106., available online at https://doi.org/10.17520/biods.2024106 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Syntype K 000961006, geounit Gansu [details]
From editor or global species database
Description Rhizome short. Culms 45-100 cm tall, acutely trigonous, firm, clothed at base with purple bladeless sheaths. Leaves shorter than culm, blades broadly linear, 5-7 mm wide, flat, margins scabrous. Involucral bracts sheathless, lowest bracts shortly bladed, shorter than inflorescence, scabrous on margins, upper ones setaceous. Spikes 4-6, approximate; terminal spike gynaecandrous; lateral spikes female with a few male flowers at base, densely many flowered, oblong-cylindric, 1.5-3.5 cm; lowest peduncle (ca. 2 mm) slender, pendulous. Female glumes dark purple, elliptic-lanceolate, 4-4.5 mm, margins narrowly white hyaline, apex acuminate. Utricles stramineous, subequaling glume, compressed, sometimes upper yellow-brown or purple punctate, nerveless, apex abruptly contracted into a short beak, orifice 2-toothed. Nutlets loosely enveloped, oblong or obovate-oblong, trigonous, ca. 2 mm; stigmas 3.  [details]

Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1939(4): 201. [7 Jun 1939] to Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1939: 201 (1939), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be found in [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carex kansuensis) 
To GenBank (17 nucleotides; 6 proteins) 
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) 
To Plants of the World Online 
To Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Carex kansuensis K000961006 type 1) 
To the Natural History Museum, London (Carex kansuensis Nelmes BM000797617 type 1) 
From editor or global species database
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