Cyperaceae taxon details
Carex alajica Litv.
1677153 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1677153)
accepted
Species
terrestrial
Litvinov, D. I. (1910). Trudy Botanicheskago Muzeya Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk. 7.
page(s): 99 [details]
page(s): 99 [details]
Description Rhizome short, ascending, stoloniferous. Culms tufted, 15-25 cm tall, trigonous, scabrous above, slightly curving, clothed...
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Trav. Mus. Bot. Acad. Petersb. vii. 99 (1910). to Trudy Bot. Muz....
Description Rhizome short, ascending, stoloniferous. Culms tufted, 15-25 cm tall, trigonous, scabrous above, slightly curving, clothed at base with brown sheaths eventually disintegrating into parallel fibers. Leaves ca. 1/2 length of culm, blades linear, 1.5-2.5 mm wide, erect, apex long acuminate. Involucral bracts leaflike, 2 × as long as spike, sheathing 5-8 mm. Spikes 2 or 3; terminal spike male, lanceolate to lanceolate-clavate, 1-1.5 cm, sessile; remaining spikes female, obovate, 1-1.5 cm, loosely slightly patent, with short peduncles 5-8 mm. Female glumes reddish ferruginous, ovate, margins white hyaline, apex long acuminate. Utricles yellowish or grayish green, much longer than glume, obovate-lageniform, compressed trigonous, ca. 5 mm, thinly leathery, scattered setulose adaxially, nerveless, upper margins scabrous, apex abruptly tapering into a flattened long beak, beak scabrous on margins, deeply 2-lobed at orifice. [details]
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Trav. Mus. Bot. Acad. Petersb. vii. 99 (1910). to Trudy Bot. Muz....
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Trav. Mus. Bot. Acad. Petersb. vii. 99 (1910). to Trudy Bot. Muz. Imp. Akad. Nauk 7: 99 (1910), 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 alajica Litv.. Accessed at: https://cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1677153 on 2025-09-12
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Nomenclature
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Litvinov, D. I. (1910). Trudy Botanicheskago Muzeya Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk. 7.
page(s): 99 [details]
basis of record Plants of the World Online (POWO). , available online at https://powo.science.kew.org/ [details]
page(s): 99 [details]
basis of record Plants of the World Online (POWO). , available online at https://powo.science.kew.org/ [details]
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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 
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Description Rhizome short, ascending, stoloniferous. Culms tufted, 15-25 cm tall, trigonous, scabrous above, slightly curving, clothed at base with brown sheaths eventually disintegrating into parallel fibers. Leaves ca. 1/2 length of culm, blades linear, 1.5-2.5 mm wide, erect, apex long acuminate. Involucral bracts leaflike, 2 × as long as spike, sheathing 5-8 mm. Spikes 2 or 3; terminal spike male, lanceolate to lanceolate-clavate, 1-1.5 cm, sessile; remaining spikes female, obovate, 1-1.5 cm, loosely slightly patent, with short peduncles 5-8 mm. Female glumes reddish ferruginous, ovate, margins white hyaline, apex long acuminate. Utricles yellowish or grayish green, much longer than glume, obovate-lageniform, compressed trigonous, ca. 5 mm, thinly leathery, scattered setulose adaxially, nerveless, upper margins scabrous, apex abruptly tapering into a flattened long beak, beak scabrous on margins, deeply 2-lobed at orifice. [details]Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Trav. Mus. Bot. Acad. Petersb. vii. 99 (1910). to Trudy Bot. Muz. Imp. Akad. Nauk 7: 99 (1910), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be found in [details]
