Cyperaceae taxon details
Carex cuchumatanensis Standl. & Steyerm.
1676753 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1676753)
accepted
Species
terrestrial
Standley, P.C.; Steyermark, J. (1953). New species of Carex from Guatemala. <em>Ceiba.</em> 4, 62-68.
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Holotype F 1128952, geounit Guatemala
Holotype F 1128952, geounit Guatemala [details]
Description Loosely cespitose, stoloniferous and forming colonies, the stolons stout, scaly, and scending, the culms 1.5-4.2 dm. high,...
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Ceiba 4: 62 1953 to Ceiba 4: 62 (1953), information provided by Alan...
Description Loosely cespitose, stoloniferous and forming colonies, the stolons stout, scaly, and scending, the culms 1.5-4.2 dm. high, 3-4 mm. thick at base, erect, strict, triangular with concave sides, smoothish or only slightly roughened above, pale brown at base, the lower and basal sheaths not at all filamentose; sterile shoots elongate, iconspicuous; leaves with well-developed blades 4-5 to a fertile culm, on the lower third, the blades gray-green or light green, 3-4 on margins; staminate spike solitary, mostly pistillate, short peduncled, linear-spatulate, 3.2-3.5 cm. long, 3-5 mm. wide, the scales oblong-obovate, obtuse, purplish-black with light-colored center not extending to tip and very narrow ,white-hyaline apex margins; pistillate spikes 3-6, approximate, sessile or the lavver as much as 1 cm. long-pedunculate, linear, 1.8-3.2 cm. long, 3-5.5 mm. wide, densely flowered throughout, 100-150-flowered, appressed; bracts with prolonged sheaths, leafy, equaling or mostly surpassing the inflorescence, greenish, pale or drab brown at base; pistillate scales ovate-oblong, the middle and upper ones obtuse, the lower mucronate to aristate, narrower and
shorter than the perigynia, purplish-black with pale 1-3 nerved center 1.4-0.6 mm. wide not extending to tip and very narrow hyaline apex; perigynia yellowish-grcen or stramineous, broadly elliptic-ovatc, plano-convex, 2. 7-2.9 mm. long, 2-2.2 mm. wide, inutely serrulate at apex, membranous, papillate, round-tapering at base, short-stipitate, glabrous, 6-10-nerved on both faces, abruptly apiculate, the beak only 0.1-0.2 mm. long, he orífice subentire or only slightly bidenticulate; achenes lenticular, obovate, body of achene 1.8-1.9 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, the slender style 0.5 mm. long; stigmas 2, slender. [details]
shorter than the perigynia, purplish-black with pale 1-3 nerved center 1.4-0.6 mm. wide not extending to tip and very narrow hyaline apex; perigynia yellowish-grcen or stramineous, broadly elliptic-ovatc, plano-convex, 2. 7-2.9 mm. long, 2-2.2 mm. wide, inutely serrulate at apex, membranous, papillate, round-tapering at base, short-stipitate, glabrous, 6-10-nerved on both faces, abruptly apiculate, the beak only 0.1-0.2 mm. long, he orífice subentire or only slightly bidenticulate; achenes lenticular, obovate, body of achene 1.8-1.9 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, the slender style 0.5 mm. long; stigmas 2, slender. [details]
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Ceiba 4: 62 1953 to Ceiba 4: 62 (1953), information provided by Alan...
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Ceiba 4: 62 1953 to Ceiba 4: 62 (1953), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be found in The Plant Lis [details]
Cyperaceae Working Group. (2025). [see How to cite]. Global Cyperaceae Database. Carex cuchumatanensis Standl. & Steyerm.. Accessed at: https://cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1676753 on 2025-09-13
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Nomenclature
original description
Standley, P.C.; Steyermark, J. (1953). New species of Carex from Guatemala. <em>Ceiba.</em> 4, 62-68.
page(s): 62 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record Plants of the World Online (POWO). , available online at https://powo.science.kew.org/ [details]
page(s): 62 [details] Available for editors
[request]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
Holotype F 1128952, geounit Guatemala [details]
From editor or global species database
Description Loosely cespitose, stoloniferous and forming colonies, the stolons stout, scaly, and scending, the culms 1.5-4.2 dm. high, 3-4 mm. thick at base, erect, strict, triangular with concave sides, smoothish or only slightly roughened above, pale brown at base, the lower and basal sheaths not at all filamentose; sterile shoots elongate, iconspicuous; leaves with well-developed blades 4-5 to a fertile culm, on the lower third, the blades gray-green or light green, 3-4 on margins; staminate spike solitary, mostly pistillate, short peduncled, linear-spatulate, 3.2-3.5 cm. long, 3-5 mm. wide, the scales oblong-obovate, obtuse, purplish-black with light-colored center not extending to tip and very narrow ,white-hyaline apex margins; pistillate spikes 3-6, approximate, sessile or the lavver as much as 1 cm. long-pedunculate, linear, 1.8-3.2 cm. long, 3-5.5 mm. wide, densely flowered throughout, 100-150-flowered, appressed; bracts with prolonged sheaths, leafy, equaling or mostly surpassing the inflorescence, greenish, pale or drab brown at base; pistillate scales ovate-oblong, the middle and upper ones obtuse, the lower mucronate to aristate, narrower and shorter than the perigynia, purplish-black with pale 1-3 nerved center 1.4-0.6 mm. wide not extending to tip and very narrow hyaline apex; perigynia yellowish-grcen or stramineous, broadly elliptic-ovatc, plano-convex, 2. 7-2.9 mm. long, 2-2.2 mm. wide, inutely serrulate at apex, membranous, papillate, round-tapering at base, short-stipitate, glabrous, 6-10-nerved on both faces, abruptly apiculate, the beak only 0.1-0.2 mm. long, he orífice subentire or only slightly bidenticulate; achenes lenticular, obovate, body of achene 1.8-1.9 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, the slender style 0.5 mm. long; stigmas 2, slender. [details]
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Ceiba 4: 62 1953 to Ceiba 4: 62 (1953), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be found in The Plant Lis [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carex cuchumatanensis)
To Field Museum Herbarium (Carex cuchumatanensis Standl. & Steyerm. F1128952 holotype 1)
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To Plants of the World Online
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carex cuchumatanensis)
To Field Museum Herbarium (Carex cuchumatanensis Standl. & Steyerm. F1128952 holotype 1)
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To Plants of the World Online
From editor or global species database
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