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Cyperaceae taxon details

Carex pumila Thunb.

1678080  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1678080)

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(1784). Flora Japonica. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50709714#page/7/mode/1up
page(s): 39 [details] 
Description Rhizome with slender stolons. Culms laxly tufted, 10-30 cm tall, triquetrous, nearly all clothed with sheaths, lower part...  
Description Rhizome with slender stolons. Culms laxly tufted, 10-30 cm tall, triquetrous, nearly all clothed with sheaths, lower part clothed with several reddish brown and bladeless sheaths, one side of sheath usually disintegrating into reticulate fibers. Leaves longer than or equaling culm, blades 3-4 mm wide, flat or sometimes plicate, stiff, scabrous on veins and margins, sheathed. Involucral bracts leafy, longer than culm, shortly sheathed. Spikes 3-6, slightly approximate; terminal 2 or 3 spikes male, clavate or narrowly cylindric, 1.5-3.5 cm, shortly pedunculate; remaining spikes female, oblong or oblong-cylindric, 1.5-2.5 × ca. 0.8 cm, slightly laxly many flowered, usually shortly pedunculate. Female glumes brownish, sometimes ferruginous and shortly striate, green at middle, broadly ovate, ca. 5.5 mm, membranous, 3-veined, margins white hyaline, apex acuminate, mucronate or aristate. Utricles yellowish or yellowish brown, obliquely patent, ovate, inflated trigonous, 6-6.5 mm, corky, glabrous, distinctly several veined, base broadly cuneate, rather thick and shortly stipitate, apex gradually narrowed to a rather broad and short beak, orifice sanguineous and 2-toothed. Nutlets rather tightly enveloped, broadly obovate or subelliptic, trigonous, ca. 3 mm, base shortly stipitate; style ± long, base slightly thickened, usually persistent; stigmas 3. [details]

Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Syst. Veg. ed. 14 846 1784 to Syst. Veg. ed. 14 : 846 (1784),...  
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Syst. Veg. ed. 14 846 1784 to Syst. Veg. ed. 14 : 846 (1784), 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 pumila Thunb.. Accessed at: https://cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1678080 on 2025-09-12
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Nomenclature

original description (1784). Flora Japonica. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50709714#page/7/mode/1up
page(s): 39 [details] 

original description (of Carex platyrhyncha Franch. & Sav.) Franchet, A. & Savatier, L. (1878). Enumeratio plantarum : in Japonia sponte crescentium hucusque rite cognitarum, adjectis descriptionibus specierum pro regione novarum, quibus accedit determinatio herbarum in libris japonicis. 2., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6210685#page/3/mode/1up
page(s): 582 [details] 

original description (of Carex nutans var. japonica Franch. & Sav.) Franchet, A. & Savatier, L. (1878). Enumeratio plantarum : in Japonia sponte crescentium hucusque rite cognitarum, adjectis descriptionibus specierum pro regione novarum, quibus accedit determinatio herbarum in libris japonicis. 2., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6210685#page/3/mode/1up
page(s): 582; note: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/1488#page/584/mode/1up [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]

 
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Syntype G 00191423, geounit Australia [details]
From editor or global species database
Description Rhizome with slender stolons. Culms laxly tufted, 10-30 cm tall, triquetrous, nearly all clothed with sheaths, lower part clothed with several reddish brown and bladeless sheaths, one side of sheath usually disintegrating into reticulate fibers. Leaves longer than or equaling culm, blades 3-4 mm wide, flat or sometimes plicate, stiff, scabrous on veins and margins, sheathed. Involucral bracts leafy, longer than culm, shortly sheathed. Spikes 3-6, slightly approximate; terminal 2 or 3 spikes male, clavate or narrowly cylindric, 1.5-3.5 cm, shortly pedunculate; remaining spikes female, oblong or oblong-cylindric, 1.5-2.5 × ca. 0.8 cm, slightly laxly many flowered, usually shortly pedunculate. Female glumes brownish, sometimes ferruginous and shortly striate, green at middle, broadly ovate, ca. 5.5 mm, membranous, 3-veined, margins white hyaline, apex acuminate, mucronate or aristate. Utricles yellowish or yellowish brown, obliquely patent, ovate, inflated trigonous, 6-6.5 mm, corky, glabrous, distinctly several veined, base broadly cuneate, rather thick and shortly stipitate, apex gradually narrowed to a rather broad and short beak, orifice sanguineous and 2-toothed. Nutlets rather tightly enveloped, broadly obovate or subelliptic, trigonous, ca. 3 mm, base shortly stipitate; style ± long, base slightly thickened, usually persistent; stigmas 3. [details]

Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Syst. Veg. ed. 14 846 1784 to Syst. Veg. ed. 14 : 846 (1784), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be found in [details]