Cyperaceae taxon details
Carex punicola D.B.Poind., Jim.Mejías & M.Escudero
1678083 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1678083)
accepted
Species
Carex phalaroides var. parvula R.Gross · unaccepted
Carex umbellata var. depressa Kük. · unaccepted
terrestrial
Poindexter, D. B.; Escudero, M.; Jiménez-Mejías, P. (2017). A clarification of the name carex hypsipedos C.B.Clarke (Cyperaceae) and a new name for the South American carex section acrocystis taxon. Phytotaxa, 291(4): 287-293.
page(s): 292 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 292 [details] Available for editors
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Holotype B 100244338, geounit Peru
Holotype B 100244338, geounit Peru [details]
Description Plants small, cespitose. Fertile culms 1–4 cm tall, erect or more or less curved, shorter than or equaling leaves.
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: ipni Update namepublishedIn from Phytotaxa 291(4): 292. 2017 [18 Jan 2017] [epublished] to Phytotaxa...
Description Plants small, cespitose. Fertile culms 1–4 cm tall, erect or more or less curved, shorter than or equaling leaves.
Basal sheaths scale-like, brown to slightly reddish-tinged, more or less fibrillose. Leaves of flowering shoots 3–7,
subcoriaceous, erect or slightly curved, mostly exceeding culms; blades 10–55 × 0.8–2.5 mm, flat, margins smooth or scabrous (especially distally); leaf sheaths glabrous, pale brown; ligules short, <2 mm long, slightly shorter than long, apex rounded. Vegetative shoots 2.5–7 cm tall; leaves 5–11, similar to those of fertile culms; pseudoculms 1–2 cm tall. Inflorescences (8–)10–30 mm long, with 1–3 cauline and 1–2 basal pseudospikelets, these latter emerging from sheathes on short to long peduncles, usually simple, rarely pseudospikelets branching at base into an additional smaller pseudospikelet, all approximate, often overlapping, the terminal one staminate, very rarely with l or 2 perigynia at its base, usually elevated, the lateral ones pistillate; bracts shorter or longer than the inflorescence, sheathless, leaf-like in the lowermost pseudospikelets to setaceous or scale-like in the uppermost ones, 4–20(–45) × 0.8–1.8 mm. Terminal pseudospikelets 6.5–8 × 2–3.5 mm wide, shortly oblong, lateral pseudospikelets 4–6.5 × 2.8–5 mm, 3–8-flowered, all erect, on peduncles 0.5–15 (–25) mm, stiff, slightly scabrous, rarely smooth, when branched, the additional pseudospikelet on a 0.5–2 mm peduncle. Staminate scales 3.5–7 × 1.2–2.0 mm, lanceolate to narrowly oblong, acuminate, glabrous, sometimes sparingly scaberulent on the veins distally, reddish brown, with narrow hyaline margins and 3–5-nerved stramineous to reddish-green middle strip. Pistillate scales 2.6–4.8 × 1.3–1.7 mm, lanceolate, acuminate or shortly awned, equaling or slightly longer and wider than the perigynia (but not concealing them), reddish brown or hyaline, with a 3–5-veined greenish middle portion. Style jointed with achene; stigmas 3. Anthers 3, ca. 1.5 mm long. Perigynia 2.4–3.3 × 1.2–1.6 mm, oblong-obovoid or elliptical, abruptly contracted into a beak at the apex and attenuated into a substipitate base, glabrate or shortly pubescent, especially distally, membranaceous, dull green, greenish-brown or stramineous, sometimes reddish-tinged near the beak, with 2 prominent nerves and 6–10 additional faint veins; beak 0.4–0.7 mm long, scaberulent, shallowly bidentate, teeth about 0.2 mm long. Achenes 1.8–2.2 × 1.1–1.5 mm, oblong obovoid, trigonous, with blunt angles, the sides convex (at least distally), tapering at base, with the style-base persistent as a 0.1 mm mucro at apex, yellowish brown, very closely enveloped by the perigynium. [details]
Basal sheaths scale-like, brown to slightly reddish-tinged, more or less fibrillose. Leaves of flowering shoots 3–7,
subcoriaceous, erect or slightly curved, mostly exceeding culms; blades 10–55 × 0.8–2.5 mm, flat, margins smooth or scabrous (especially distally); leaf sheaths glabrous, pale brown; ligules short, <2 mm long, slightly shorter than long, apex rounded. Vegetative shoots 2.5–7 cm tall; leaves 5–11, similar to those of fertile culms; pseudoculms 1–2 cm tall. Inflorescences (8–)10–30 mm long, with 1–3 cauline and 1–2 basal pseudospikelets, these latter emerging from sheathes on short to long peduncles, usually simple, rarely pseudospikelets branching at base into an additional smaller pseudospikelet, all approximate, often overlapping, the terminal one staminate, very rarely with l or 2 perigynia at its base, usually elevated, the lateral ones pistillate; bracts shorter or longer than the inflorescence, sheathless, leaf-like in the lowermost pseudospikelets to setaceous or scale-like in the uppermost ones, 4–20(–45) × 0.8–1.8 mm. Terminal pseudospikelets 6.5–8 × 2–3.5 mm wide, shortly oblong, lateral pseudospikelets 4–6.5 × 2.8–5 mm, 3–8-flowered, all erect, on peduncles 0.5–15 (–25) mm, stiff, slightly scabrous, rarely smooth, when branched, the additional pseudospikelet on a 0.5–2 mm peduncle. Staminate scales 3.5–7 × 1.2–2.0 mm, lanceolate to narrowly oblong, acuminate, glabrous, sometimes sparingly scaberulent on the veins distally, reddish brown, with narrow hyaline margins and 3–5-nerved stramineous to reddish-green middle strip. Pistillate scales 2.6–4.8 × 1.3–1.7 mm, lanceolate, acuminate or shortly awned, equaling or slightly longer and wider than the perigynia (but not concealing them), reddish brown or hyaline, with a 3–5-veined greenish middle portion. Style jointed with achene; stigmas 3. Anthers 3, ca. 1.5 mm long. Perigynia 2.4–3.3 × 1.2–1.6 mm, oblong-obovoid or elliptical, abruptly contracted into a beak at the apex and attenuated into a substipitate base, glabrate or shortly pubescent, especially distally, membranaceous, dull green, greenish-brown or stramineous, sometimes reddish-tinged near the beak, with 2 prominent nerves and 6–10 additional faint veins; beak 0.4–0.7 mm long, scaberulent, shallowly bidentate, teeth about 0.2 mm long. Achenes 1.8–2.2 × 1.1–1.5 mm, oblong obovoid, trigonous, with blunt angles, the sides convex (at least distally), tapering at base, with the style-base persistent as a 0.1 mm mucro at apex, yellowish brown, very closely enveloped by the perigynium. [details]
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: ipni Update namepublishedIn from Phytotaxa 291(4): 292. 2017 [18 Jan 2017] [epublished] to Phytotaxa...
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: ipni Update namepublishedIn from Phytotaxa 291(4): 292. 2017 [18 Jan 2017] [epublished] to Phytotaxa 291(4): 292 (2017), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 [details]
Cyperaceae Working Group. (2025). [see How to cite]. Global Cyperaceae Database. Carex punicola D.B.Poind., Jim.Mejías & M.Escudero. Accessed at: https://www.cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1678083 on 2025-09-12
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Nomenclature
original description
Poindexter, D. B.; Escudero, M.; Jiménez-Mejías, P. (2017). A clarification of the name carex hypsipedos C.B.Clarke (Cyperaceae) and a new name for the South American carex section acrocystis taxon. Phytotaxa, 291(4): 287-293.
page(s): 292 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record Plants of the World Online (POWO). , available online at https://powo.science.kew.org/ [details]
page(s): 292 [details] Available for editors
[request]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
Holotype B 100244338, geounit Peru [details]
From editor or global species database
Description Plants small, cespitose. Fertile culms 1–4 cm tall, erect or more or less curved, shorter than or equaling leaves. Basal sheaths scale-like, brown to slightly reddish-tinged, more or less fibrillose. Leaves of flowering shoots 3–7,
subcoriaceous, erect or slightly curved, mostly exceeding culms; blades 10–55 × 0.8–2.5 mm, flat, margins smooth or scabrous (especially distally); leaf sheaths glabrous, pale brown; ligules short, <2 mm long, slightly shorter than long, apex rounded. Vegetative shoots 2.5–7 cm tall; leaves 5–11, similar to those of fertile culms; pseudoculms 1–2 cm tall. Inflorescences (8–)10–30 mm long, with 1–3 cauline and 1–2 basal pseudospikelets, these latter emerging from sheathes on short to long peduncles, usually simple, rarely pseudospikelets branching at base into an additional smaller pseudospikelet, all approximate, often overlapping, the terminal one staminate, very rarely with l or 2 perigynia at its base, usually elevated, the lateral ones pistillate; bracts shorter or longer than the inflorescence, sheathless, leaf-like in the lowermost pseudospikelets to setaceous or scale-like in the uppermost ones, 4–20(–45) × 0.8–1.8 mm. Terminal pseudospikelets 6.5–8 × 2–3.5 mm wide, shortly oblong, lateral pseudospikelets 4–6.5 × 2.8–5 mm, 3–8-flowered, all erect, on peduncles 0.5–15 (–25) mm, stiff, slightly scabrous, rarely smooth, when branched, the additional pseudospikelet on a 0.5–2 mm peduncle. Staminate scales 3.5–7 × 1.2–2.0 mm, lanceolate to narrowly oblong, acuminate, glabrous, sometimes sparingly scaberulent on the veins distally, reddish brown, with narrow hyaline margins and 3–5-nerved stramineous to reddish-green middle strip. Pistillate scales 2.6–4.8 × 1.3–1.7 mm, lanceolate, acuminate or shortly awned, equaling or slightly longer and wider than the perigynia (but not concealing them), reddish brown or hyaline, with a 3–5-veined greenish middle portion. Style jointed with achene; stigmas 3. Anthers 3, ca. 1.5 mm long. Perigynia 2.4–3.3 × 1.2–1.6 mm, oblong-obovoid or elliptical, abruptly contracted into a beak at the apex and attenuated into a substipitate base, glabrate or shortly pubescent, especially distally, membranaceous, dull green, greenish-brown or stramineous, sometimes reddish-tinged near the beak, with 2 prominent nerves and 6–10 additional faint veins; beak 0.4–0.7 mm long, scaberulent, shallowly bidentate, teeth about 0.2 mm long. Achenes 1.8–2.2 × 1.1–1.5 mm, oblong obovoid, trigonous, with blunt angles, the sides convex (at least distally), tapering at base, with the style-base persistent as a 0.1 mm mucro at apex, yellowish brown, very closely enveloped by the perigynium. [details]
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: ipni Update namepublishedIn from Phytotaxa 291(4): 292. 2017 [18 Jan 2017] [epublished] to Phytotaxa 291(4): 292 (2017), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Carex phalaroides var. parvula R.Gross)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex umbellata var. depressa Kük.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex phalaroides var. parvula R.Gross)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex phalaroides var. parvula R.Gross)
To Plants of the World Online
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex umbellata var. depressa Kük.)
To US Herbarium (Carex phalaroides parvula US1545831 type 1) (from synonym Carex phalaroides var. parvula R.Gross)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Carex phalaroides var. parvula R.Gross)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex umbellata var. depressa Kük.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex phalaroides var. parvula R.Gross)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex phalaroides var. parvula R.Gross)
To Plants of the World Online
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex umbellata var. depressa Kük.)
To US Herbarium (Carex phalaroides parvula US1545831 type 1) (from synonym Carex phalaroides var. parvula R.Gross)
From editor or global species database
Hosted externally, from synonym
