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Cyperaceae taxon details

Carex serreana Hand.-Mazz.

1677095  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1677095)

accepted
Species
terrestrial
Handel-Mazzetti, H. (1936). Kleine Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Flora von China. <em>Oesterreichische botanische Zeitschrift.</em> 85.
page(s): 225 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
Description Rhizome short. Culms tufted, 25-60 cm tall, trigonous, slender, smooth, clothed at base with purple-brown sheaths. Leaves...  
Description Rhizome short. Culms tufted, 25-60 cm tall, trigonous, slender, smooth, clothed at base with purple-brown sheaths. Leaves shorter than culm, blades 2-3 mm wide, soft. Involucral bracts setaceous, sheathless. Spikes 2 or 3, approximate; terminal spike gynaecandrous, ovate or oblong, 5-10 mm; peduncles slender, lowest one 5-12 mm. Female glumes dark purple-red, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 2-2.2 mm, 3-veined, margins narrowly white hyaline, apex acute or obtuse. Utricles yellowish green or pale brown, longer than glume, oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic, trigonous, 3-3.5 × ca. 1 mm, not inflated, veined, apex abruptly contracted into a short beak, orifice dark purple, 2-toothed. Nutlets oblong, trigonous, ca. 2 mm; style long, base not thickened; stigmas 3.  [details]

Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Oesterr. Bot. Z. 85: 225. 1936 to Oesterr. Bot. Z. 85: 225 (1936),...  
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Oesterr. Bot. Z. 85: 225. 1936 to Oesterr. Bot. Z. 85: 225 (1936), 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 serreana Hand.-Mazz.. Accessed at: https://www.cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1677095 on 2025-09-13
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Nomenclature

original description Handel-Mazzetti, H. (1936). Kleine Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Flora von China. <em>Oesterreichische botanische Zeitschrift.</em> 85.
page(s): 225 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

original description (of Carex wenchenii F.T.Wang & Tang) Wang, F. T.; Tang, T. (1951). Two new sedges from Hopei. Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica, 1: 133-134.
page(s): 134 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

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 
   

Topotype P 00520983, geounit Shanxi [details]
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Description Rhizome short. Culms tufted, 25-60 cm tall, trigonous, slender, smooth, clothed at base with purple-brown sheaths. Leaves shorter than culm, blades 2-3 mm wide, soft. Involucral bracts setaceous, sheathless. Spikes 2 or 3, approximate; terminal spike gynaecandrous, ovate or oblong, 5-10 mm; peduncles slender, lowest one 5-12 mm. Female glumes dark purple-red, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 2-2.2 mm, 3-veined, margins narrowly white hyaline, apex acute or obtuse. Utricles yellowish green or pale brown, longer than glume, oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic, trigonous, 3-3.5 × ca. 1 mm, not inflated, veined, apex abruptly contracted into a short beak, orifice dark purple, 2-toothed. Nutlets oblong, trigonous, ca. 2 mm; style long, base not thickened; stigmas 3.  [details]

Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Oesterr. Bot. Z. 85: 225. 1936 to Oesterr. Bot. Z. 85: 225 (1936), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be found in [details]