Cyperaceae taxon details
Carex albicans Willd. ex Spreng.
1677160 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1677160)
accepted
Species
Carex pennsylvanica Torr. · unaccepted
Carex varia Willd. ex Wahlenb. · unaccepted
Carex varia f. distincta Kük. · unaccepted
terrestrial
Sprengel, C. (1826). Systema vegetabilium. (ed. 16), 3., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/793170#page/1/mode/1up
page(s): 818 [details]
page(s): 818 [details]
Description Plants densely to loosely cespitose; rhizomes ascending or horizontally spreading, reddish brown to dark reddish purple,...
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Syst. Veg. 3: 818 1826 to Syst. Veg. 3: 818 (1826), information...
Description Plants densely to loosely cespitose; rhizomes ascending or horizontally spreading, reddish brown to dark reddish purple, 0–70 mm, slender. Culms 10–45 cm, smooth to scabrous distally; bases (remnants of old leaves) slightly or not at all fibrous. Leaf blades pale to bright green, shorter to longer than culms, 0.8–2.5 mm wide, herbaceous, smooth to scabrous abaxially, papillose to scabrous adaxially. Inflorescences with both staminate and pistillate spikes; peduncles of staminate spikes 0.4–9.9 mm; proximal nonbasal bracts leaflike, shorter than inflorescences. Spikes: proximal pistillate spikes 1–4 (basal spikes 0); cauline spikes overlapping, proximal 2 spikes usually separated by less than 7 mm, with 4–14 perigynia; staminate spikes 5–14 × 0.5–1.8 mm. Scales: pistillate scales pale to dark reddish brown, with narrow white margins, lanceolate to ovate or obovate, 2.2–3.4 × 0.4–1.8 mm, equaling or exceeding perigynia, apex usually acuminate, sometimes acute or mucronate; staminate scales lanceolate to ovate, 2.8–6 × 0.6–1.9 mm, apex acute to acuminate. Anthers 1.5–2.7 mm. Perigynia pale green, veinless, ellipsoid, 2.3–3.3 × 0.8–1.2 mm, longer than wide; beak straight, pale green, 0.6–1.1 mm, weakly ciliate-serrulate, apical teeth 0.1–0.4 mm. Stigmas 3. Achenes brown, ellipsoid, acutely trigonous in cross section, 1.2–1.7 × 0.7–1.3 mm. [details]
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Syst. Veg. 3: 818 1826 to Syst. Veg. 3: 818 (1826), information...
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Syst. Veg. 3: 818 1826 to Syst. Veg. 3: 818 (1826), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be found in T [details]
Cyperaceae Working Group. (2025). [see How to cite]. Global Cyperaceae Database. Carex albicans Willd. ex Spreng.. Accessed at: https://cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1677160 on 2025-09-13
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Nomenclature
original description
Sprengel, C. (1826). Systema vegetabilium. (ed. 16), 3., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/793170#page/1/mode/1up
page(s): 818 [details]
basis of record Plants of the World Online (POWO). , available online at https://powo.science.kew.org/ [details]
page(s): 818 [details]
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
From editor or global species database
Description Plants densely to loosely cespitose; rhizomes ascending or horizontally spreading, reddish brown to dark reddish purple, 0–70 mm, slender. Culms 10–45 cm, smooth to scabrous distally; bases (remnants of old leaves) slightly or not at all fibrous. Leaf blades pale to bright green, shorter to longer than culms, 0.8–2.5 mm wide, herbaceous, smooth to scabrous abaxially, papillose to scabrous adaxially. Inflorescences with both staminate and pistillate spikes; peduncles of staminate spikes 0.4–9.9 mm; proximal nonbasal bracts leaflike, shorter than inflorescences. Spikes: proximal pistillate spikes 1–4 (basal spikes 0); cauline spikes overlapping, proximal 2 spikes usually separated by less than 7 mm, with 4–14 perigynia; staminate spikes 5–14 × 0.5–1.8 mm. Scales: pistillate scales pale to dark reddish brown, with narrow white margins, lanceolate to ovate or obovate, 2.2–3.4 × 0.4–1.8 mm, equaling or exceeding perigynia, apex usually acuminate, sometimes acute or mucronate; staminate scales lanceolate to ovate, 2.8–6 × 0.6–1.9 mm, apex acute to acuminate. Anthers 1.5–2.7 mm. Perigynia pale green, veinless, ellipsoid, 2.3–3.3 × 0.8–1.2 mm, longer than wide; beak straight, pale green, 0.6–1.1 mm, weakly ciliate-serrulate, apical teeth 0.1–0.4 mm. Stigmas 3. Achenes brown, ellipsoid, acutely trigonous in cross section, 1.2–1.7 × 0.7–1.3 mm. [details]Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Syst. Veg. 3: 818 1826 to Syst. Veg. 3: 818 (1826), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be found in T [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (216 publications) (from synonym Carex pennsylvanica Torr.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (279 publications) (from synonym Carex varia Willd. ex Wahlenb.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (83 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carex albicans)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex pennsylvanica Torr.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex varia Willd. ex Wahlenb.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex varia f. distincta Kük.)
To Plants of the World Online
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex pennsylvanica Torr.)
To The Plant List (from synonym Carex varia Willd. ex Wahlenb.)
To The Plant List (from synonym Carex varia f. distincta Kük.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (279 publications) (from synonym Carex varia Willd. ex Wahlenb.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (83 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carex albicans)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex pennsylvanica Torr.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex varia Willd. ex Wahlenb.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex varia f. distincta Kük.)
To Plants of the World Online
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex pennsylvanica Torr.)
To The Plant List (from synonym Carex varia Willd. ex Wahlenb.)
To The Plant List (from synonym Carex varia f. distincta Kük.)
