Cyperaceae taxon details
Carex sacerdotis Nelmes
1677013 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1677013)
accepted
Species
terrestrial
Nelmes, E. (1955). The genus Carex in Indo-China, including Thailand and Lower Burma. Mémoires du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Série B, Botanique, 4(2): 83-182., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/283006
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Description Tufted. Rhizome clothed with sheathing scales. Stems erect, angles prominent, 30-50 cm tall, 1-1.5 mm thick, smooth,...
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, Ser. B. Bot. iv. 172 (1955). to Mém....
Description Tufted. Rhizome clothed with sheathing scales. Stems erect, angles prominent, 30-50 cm tall, 1-1.5 mm thick, smooth, including the rhachis, surrounded at the base by reddish-brown or paler cataphylls. Leaves basal and subbasal, shorter to longer than the stems, 2.5-5.5 mm wide, flat or flattish; sheaths pale brown, thinly membranous in front. Spikes 6-7, single, erect or suberect, dense-flowered, upper 3-4 male, slenderly cylindric, 1.5-3 mm thick, terminal 2.5-3.5 cm, lateral 1-2 cm, long, contiguous to approximate, and fastigiate or sub-fastigiate, lateral male spikes sessile, remaining 2-4 female, cylindric, 1-5 cm long, 5-9 mm thick, upper usually subapproximate and sub-sessile or shortly peduncled, lower, less commonly all, more distantly spaced and shortly to longly or very longly peduncled; peduncles slender, smooth. Female glumes tapering-oblong or lanceolate-oblong, flattish with involute margins, apex very obtuse to subtruncate, 2.25-3 mm long, 0.8-1 mm wide, glabrous, bright brownish, midrib and 2 strong adjacent nerves, coalescing above, in a broad pale stripe, excurrent in a flattish, ciliolate-hispidulous-margined awn 1.5-5 mm long. Utricles ovoid, ovoid-lanceolate, or ellipsoid, 4-6 mm long, 1.75-2 mm broad, narrowly marginate, densely pale subadpressed-hispidulous, straight or straightish, dark brown, shortly stipitate, subabruptly beaked; beak not or scarcely tapering, plano-convex, 1.75-2 mm long, glabrous or glabrescent, marginate, hispidulous- margined, palish, bidentate; mouth scarcely to moderately dorsally oblique; teeth 0.5-1 mm long, slightly to extremely divergent. Achene ellipsoid or rhomboid-ellipsoid, much tapering at each end but especially at the base, angles prominent, faces concave below, about 3 mm long (including beak), about 1.4 mm broad, scarcely stipitate; beak cylindric-trigonous, 0.5-1 mm long, somewhat bent. Style base not or scarcely thickened. [details]
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, Ser. B. Bot. iv. 172 (1955). to Mém....
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, Ser. B. Bot. iv. 172 (1955). to Mém. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., B, Bot. 4: 172 (1955), 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 sacerdotis Nelmes. Accessed at: https://www.cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1677013 on 2025-09-13
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Nelmes, E. (1955). The genus Carex in Indo-China, including Thailand and Lower Burma. Mémoires du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Série B, Botanique, 4(2): 83-182., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/283006
page(s): 172 [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): 172 [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
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Description Tufted. Rhizome clothed with sheathing scales. Stems erect, angles prominent, 30-50 cm tall, 1-1.5 mm thick, smooth, including the rhachis, surrounded at the base by reddish-brown or paler cataphylls. Leaves basal and subbasal, shorter to longer than the stems, 2.5-5.5 mm wide, flat or flattish; sheaths pale brown, thinly membranous in front. Spikes 6-7, single, erect or suberect, dense-flowered, upper 3-4 male, slenderly cylindric, 1.5-3 mm thick, terminal 2.5-3.5 cm, lateral 1-2 cm, long, contiguous to approximate, and fastigiate or sub-fastigiate, lateral male spikes sessile, remaining 2-4 female, cylindric, 1-5 cm long, 5-9 mm thick, upper usually subapproximate and sub-sessile or shortly peduncled, lower, less commonly all, more distantly spaced and shortly to longly or very longly peduncled; peduncles slender, smooth. Female glumes tapering-oblong or lanceolate-oblong, flattish with involute margins, apex very obtuse to subtruncate, 2.25-3 mm long, 0.8-1 mm wide, glabrous, bright brownish, midrib and 2 strong adjacent nerves, coalescing above, in a broad pale stripe, excurrent in a flattish, ciliolate-hispidulous-margined awn 1.5-5 mm long. Utricles ovoid, ovoid-lanceolate, or ellipsoid, 4-6 mm long, 1.75-2 mm broad, narrowly marginate, densely pale subadpressed-hispidulous, straight or straightish, dark brown, shortly stipitate, subabruptly beaked; beak not or scarcely tapering, plano-convex, 1.75-2 mm long, glabrous or glabrescent, marginate, hispidulous- margined, palish, bidentate; mouth scarcely to moderately dorsally oblique; teeth 0.5-1 mm long, slightly to extremely divergent. Achene ellipsoid or rhomboid-ellipsoid, much tapering at each end but especially at the base, angles prominent, faces concave below, about 3 mm long (including beak), about 1.4 mm broad, scarcely stipitate; beak cylindric-trigonous, 0.5-1 mm long, somewhat bent. Style base not or scarcely thickened. [details]Diagnosis Differs from C. fedia Nees in its longer, more tapering utricles with much longer beaks and its achene which is ellipsoid or rhomboid-ellipsoid with tapering apex (not oblong-ellipsoid with rounded apex), and glumes with much longer awns, darker coloured utricles, with different pubescence. [details]
Ecology In streams among mountains [details]
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, Ser. B. Bot. iv. 172 (1955). to Mém. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., B, Bot. 4: 172 (1955), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be found in
