Cyperaceae taxon details
Carex foraminata C.B.Clarke
1677743 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1677743)
accepted
Species
terrestrial
Clarke, C. B. (1903). Cyperaceae. In: Forbes, F. & Hemsley, W. B. An enumeration of all the plants known from China proper, Fornosa, Hainan, Corea, the Luchu Archipelago and the Island of Hongkong, together with their distribution and synonymy. <em>Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany.</em> 36: 202-319., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/178059#page/222/mode/1up
page(s): 285 [details]
page(s): 285 [details]
Holotype K, geounit China North-Central
Holotype K, geounit China North-Central [details]
Description Rhizome stout, covered with fibrous remains of old scales. Culms 40-70 cm tall, rather stout, trigonous, smooth, surrounded...
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 36: 285. 1903 [1903-1905 publ. 1903] to J. Linn....
Description Rhizome stout, covered with fibrous remains of old scales. Culms 40-70 cm tall, rather stout, trigonous, smooth, surrounded at base by dark brown bladeless sheaths, sheaths usually disintegrating into fibers. Leaves longer than or equaling culm, blades 4-7 mm wide, flat, leathery, smooth, margins scabrid. Lower involucral bracts shortly leaflike, upper one bristlelike, shorter than subtending spike, sheath 2-5 cm. Spikes 4-6; terminal spike male, cylindric, 50-80 × 3-5 mm, with peduncle 4-6 cm; lateral spikes female, spaced, cylindric, 50-80 × 3-5 mm, densely flowered, ± nodding at apex, peduncle 2-4 cm, slightly exserted but upper ones enclosed in involucral bract sheath. Female glumes pale brown on both upper sides, oblong, 3-3.5 mm, costa pale green, with a distinct midrib, apex acute. Utricles shorter than glume, obovate, 2-2.5 mm (including stipe), prominently many veined, puberulent, base stipitate, apex shortly beaked, beak slightly recurved, emarginate at orifice. Nutlet stramineous, tightly enveloped, shortly oblong, 1.5-2 mm, with angles contracted at middle, base with short and bent stipe, apex abruptly contracted into a short cylindric beak; style base slightly thickened, most parts not persistent; stigmas 3. [details]
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 36: 285. 1903 [1903-1905 publ. 1903] to J. Linn....
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 36: 285. 1903 [1903-1905 publ. 1903] to J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 36: 285 (1903), 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 foraminata C.B.Clarke. Accessed at: https://cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1677743 on 2025-09-12
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Nomenclature
original description
Clarke, C. B. (1903). Cyperaceae. In: Forbes, F. & Hemsley, W. B. An enumeration of all the plants known from China proper, Fornosa, Hainan, Corea, the Luchu Archipelago and the Island of Hongkong, together with their distribution and synonymy. <em>Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany.</em> 36: 202-319., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/178059#page/222/mode/1up
page(s): 285 [details]
basis of record Plants of the World Online (POWO). , available online at https://powo.science.kew.org/ [details]
page(s): 285 [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 
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype K, geounit China North-Central [details]
From editor or global species database
Description Rhizome stout, covered with fibrous remains of old scales. Culms 40-70 cm tall, rather stout, trigonous, smooth, surrounded at base by dark brown bladeless sheaths, sheaths usually disintegrating into fibers. Leaves longer than or equaling culm, blades 4-7 mm wide, flat, leathery, smooth, margins scabrid. Lower involucral bracts shortly leaflike, upper one bristlelike, shorter than subtending spike, sheath 2-5 cm. Spikes 4-6; terminal spike male, cylindric, 50-80 × 3-5 mm, with peduncle 4-6 cm; lateral spikes female, spaced, cylindric, 50-80 × 3-5 mm, densely flowered, ± nodding at apex, peduncle 2-4 cm, slightly exserted but upper ones enclosed in involucral bract sheath. Female glumes pale brown on both upper sides, oblong, 3-3.5 mm, costa pale green, with a distinct midrib, apex acute. Utricles shorter than glume, obovate, 2-2.5 mm (including stipe), prominently many veined, puberulent, base stipitate, apex shortly beaked, beak slightly recurved, emarginate at orifice. Nutlet stramineous, tightly enveloped, shortly oblong, 1.5-2 mm, with angles contracted at middle, base with short and bent stipe, apex abruptly contracted into a short cylindric beak; style base slightly thickened, most parts not persistent; stigmas 3. [details]Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 36: 285. 1903 [1903-1905 publ. 1903] to J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 36: 285 (1903), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be found in [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carex foraminata)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To Plants of the World Online
To Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Carex foraminata K000960858 type 1)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carex foraminata)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To Plants of the World Online
To Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Carex foraminata K000960858 type 1)
From editor or global species database
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