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Cyperaceae taxon details

Carex vesicata Meinsh.

To LE Herbarium (Carex vesicata LE01007071 lectotype 1)
To LE Herbarium (Carex vesicata LE01007071 lectotype 1)

1677355  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1677355)

  1. Biota
  2. Plantae (Kingdom)
  3. Viridiplantae (Subkingdom)
  4. Streptophyta (Infrakingdom)
  5. Tracheophyta (Phylum (Division))
  6. Spermatophytina (Subphylum (Subdivision))
  7. Magnoliopsida (Class)
  8. Lilianae (Superorder)
  9. Poales (Order)
  10. Cyperaceae (Family)
  11. Cariceae (Tribe)
  12. Carex (Genus)
  13. Carex subg. Carex (Subgenus)
  14. Carex sect. HirtaClade (Section)
  15. Carex vesicata (Species)
accepted
Species
terrestrial
Meinshausen, K. F. (1901). Die Cyperaceen der Flora Russlands. Acta Horti Petropolitani, 18: 221-415., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15640805#page/246/mode/1up
page(s): 367 [details] 
Description Rhizome stoloniferous. Culms 30-70 cm tall, triquetrous, scabrous on upper part, clothed with red-brown sheaths at base....  
Description Rhizome stoloniferous. Culms 30-70 cm tall, triquetrous, scabrous on upper part, clothed with red-brown sheaths at base. Leaves shorter than culm, blades 3-4 mm wide, slightly stiff, sheathed. Involucral bracts leaflike, longer than spike, usually not sheathed or lowermost involucral bract shortly sheathed. Spikes 4-6; terminal 2 or 3 spikes male, linear, 2-4 cm, nearly sessile; remaining spikes female, remote, oblong or ovate, 2-4 × ca. 1 cm, densely many flowered at upper part and laxly flowered at base, shortly pedunculate. Female glumes ferruginous, ovate-lanceolate, ca. 3.5 mm, 1-3-veined, margins white hyaline, apex acuminate, muticous. Utricles yellowish green, sometimes brownish, obliquely patent, longer than glumes, ovate, inflated trigonous, ca. 5 mm, papery, glabrous, 3-5-veined abaxially, base rounded, apex abruptly contracted into a medium-sized beak, orifice shortly 2-toothed, teeth slightly recurved. Nutlets very loosely enveloped, subovate, trigonous, ca. 1.5 mm; style slender, flexuose at lower part, base not thickened; stigmas 3, rather short. [details]
Cyperaceae Working Group. (2025). [see How to cite]. Global Cyperaceae Database. Carex vesicata Meinsh.. Accessed at: https://www.cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1677355 on 2025-09-13
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2023-09-06 07:28:28Z
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Jiménez-Mejías, Pedro
2024-12-10 11:47:54Z
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Márquez-Corro, José Ignacio

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Nomenclature

original description Meinshausen, K. F. (1901). Die Cyperaceen der Flora Russlands. Acta Horti Petropolitani, 18: 221-415., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15640805#page/246/mode/1up
page(s): 367 [details] 

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 
   

From editor or global species database
Description Rhizome stoloniferous. Culms 30-70 cm tall, triquetrous, scabrous on upper part, clothed with red-brown sheaths at base. Leaves shorter than culm, blades 3-4 mm wide, slightly stiff, sheathed. Involucral bracts leaflike, longer than spike, usually not sheathed or lowermost involucral bract shortly sheathed. Spikes 4-6; terminal 2 or 3 spikes male, linear, 2-4 cm, nearly sessile; remaining spikes female, remote, oblong or ovate, 2-4 × ca. 1 cm, densely many flowered at upper part and laxly flowered at base, shortly pedunculate. Female glumes ferruginous, ovate-lanceolate, ca. 3.5 mm, 1-3-veined, margins white hyaline, apex acuminate, muticous. Utricles yellowish green, sometimes brownish, obliquely patent, longer than glumes, ovate, inflated trigonous, ca. 5 mm, papery, glabrous, 3-5-veined abaxially, base rounded, apex abruptly contracted into a medium-sized beak, orifice shortly 2-toothed, teeth slightly recurved. Nutlets very loosely enveloped, subovate, trigonous, ca. 1.5 mm; style slender, flexuose at lower part, base not thickened; stigmas 3, rather short. [details]

Diagnosis Laxe caespitosa, fibrosa. Culmis 1 1/2 - 2 pedal., gracilibus acute-triquetris scabris foliatis; foliis linearibus acuminatis planis saepius culmum aequantibus, inferioribus sensim brevioribus antice vagina fibrilloso-laceris; spiculis 4-5 cylindricis, terminalibus 2 masculis approximatis linearibus ima paulo minor bractea minuta suffulta; femineis 2-3, rarissime 1, a mascula saepius longe remotis, laxiusculis, inferioribus plus minus longe pedunculatis saepe pendulis, superior saepe subsessilis (rarius omnibus brevibus pedunculatis); bracteis foliaceis culmo pluries longioribus, infima brevissime vaginato-amplectente; perigyniis oblongis apice breviter cylindrico-rostratis, ore brevissime-bidentato, inflatis pellucidis glabris, remotius perspicue nervatis, saepius purpureo-pictis demum flavidis, squama lanceolata acuminata fusca, nervo medio validiusculo pallido, latioribus et subduplo longioribus. [details]

Translation Loosely tufted, fibrous. Culms 1.5 - 2 feet long, slender, acute-triangular, scabrous and leafy; Leaves linear, flat and acuminate, often equaling to the culm, the lower ones slightly shorter, the sheath fibrillose-torn at the front; spikelets 4-5, cylindrical, terminal 2 spikes staminate, close together, linear, the lower one slightly smaller and supported by a small bract; pistillate spikes 2-3 (very rarely 1), often very distant from the males, lax, the lower ones more or less long pedunculate, often pendulous, the upper one often subsessile (rarely all short pedunculate); culm with leafy bracts several times longer than the culm, the lowest one very briefly sheathing-clasping; perigynia oblong with a short cylindrical apical beak, very shortly bidentate at the apex, inflated, pellucid, glabrous, with distinct veins separate from each other, often purple-tinged, drying yellow, pistillate scales lanceolate, acuminate, dark brown, with a distinct pale vein in the middle, 2 times longer than wide. [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carex vesicata) 
To GenBank (29 nucleotides; 16 proteins) 
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) 
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex vesicaria subsp. vesicata (Meinsh.) T.V.Egorova)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex vesicaria var. tenuistachya Kük.)
To LE Herbarium (Carex vesicata LE01007071 lectotype 1) 
To LE Herbarium (Carex vesicata LE01007072 syntype 1) 
To LE Herbarium (Carex vesicata LE01007073 syntype 1) 
To LE Herbarium (Carex vesicata LE01007074 syntype 1) 
To LE Herbarium (Carex vesicata LE01007075 syntype 1) 
To LE Herbarium (Carex vesicata LE01007076 syntype 1) 
To LE Herbarium (Carex vesicata LE01007077 syntype 1) 
To LE Herbarium (Carex vesicata LE01007078 syntype 1) 
To LE Herbarium (Carex vesicata LE01007079 syntype 1) 
To LE Herbarium (Carex vesicata LE01007080 syntype 1) 
To LE Herbarium (Carex vesicata LE01007081 syntype 1) 
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex vesicaria subsp. vesicata (Meinsh.) T.V.Egorova)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex vesicaria f. tenuistachya (Kük.) T.Koyama)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex vesicaria var. tenuistachya Kük.)
To Plants of the World Online 
From editor or global species database
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