Cyperaceae taxon details
Mapania kadimiana Shabdin, Meekiong & Miraadila
1678512 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1678512)
accepted
Species
terrestrial
Shabdin, Z.; Kalu, M.; Mohd Isa, M. (2016). A new <i>Mapania</i> species (Cyperaceae) from Sarawak, Malaysia. <em>Borneo Journal of Resource Science and Technology.</em> 6(1): 19-24., available online at https://doi.org/10.33736/bjrst.211.2016
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Holotype K 001392920, geounit Sarawak
Holotype K 001392920, geounit Sarawak [details]
Description Robust, rhizomatous; rhizome 13–15 mm diameter. Culm solitary, more or less erect or lateral, 5–27 x 0.5–0.9 cm,...
Etymology This species is named after the Vice Chancellor, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Prof. Dato’ Dr. Mohamad Kadim Suaidi for...
Description Robust, rhizomatous; rhizome 13–15 mm diameter. Culm solitary, more or less erect or lateral, 5–27 x 0.5–0.9 cm, terete, mostly scabrid, medium greenish when fresh and becoming brownish when dry. Leaves basal, crowded and distinctly 3-ranked, up to 155 cm long; leaf blade narrowly linear, 122–145 x 2–2.5 cm, apex gradually narrowed, acuminate with long acumen, 8–10 cm long, base very gradually narrowed into sheath, coriaceous, medium green when fresh and becoming brownish when dry 1-nerved to indistinctly 3-nerved, secondary nerves indistinct with septate-nodulose when dry, strongly inverse w-shaped in cross-section, margins densely serrulate, pseudopetiole absent, sheaths lanceolate, 6.2–10 x 1–2 cm, apex very gradually narrowed, thickly coriaceous, shiny, mid– to –dark chocolate brown. Involucral bract 2–4, glumaceous, lanceolate, 20–24 x 3–5 mm, apex acuminate, dark chocolate brown. Inflorescence up to 10 or more per plant, terminal capitulum, composed of 3 spikes, seldom with solitary spike; spikes rounded to lanceolate, 10–20 x 5–8 mm, acute to obtuse, or sub-obtuse, greenish brown; spicoid bract lanceolate, 5–8 x 6–8 mm, subobtuse, subcoriacoues, greenish brown, light brown along the margin edge, faintly with hairs, nerves indistinct; floral bract 6, free, lower 2 bracts linear, 4–5 x 0.6–1 mm, acute, mid-brown, keeled, wingless, hispid to ciliate hispid, upper bract linear-lanceolate, 3.8–4.6 x 0.4–0.8 mm, acute flat to keeled, transparent light brown, staminate flowers 4 per spicoid, anther linear, 6 mm, stigma branches 2, c. 2 mm long, whitish; style 4 mm long. Fruit obovoid, 5–6 x 2–3 mm, apex with extended conical, keeled, base shortly stipitate, exocarp hard, rugose at the upper part and with small tubercles at lower part, brownish at the lower part and become darker toward the apex and apex blackish. [details]
Etymology This species is named after the Vice Chancellor, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Prof. Dato’ Dr. Mohamad Kadim Suaidi for...
Etymology This species is named after the Vice Chancellor, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Prof. Dato’ Dr. Mohamad Kadim Suaidi for his continual support of the biodiversity research in
Sarawak. [details]
Sarawak. [details]
Cyperaceae Working Group. (2025). [see How to cite]. Global Cyperaceae Database. Mapania kadimiana Shabdin, Meekiong & Miraadila. Accessed at: https://www.cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1678512 on 2025-09-13
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Nomenclature
original description
Shabdin, Z.; Kalu, M.; Mohd Isa, M. (2016). A new <i>Mapania</i> species (Cyperaceae) from Sarawak, Malaysia. <em>Borneo Journal of Resource Science and Technology.</em> 6(1): 19-24., available online at https://doi.org/10.33736/bjrst.211.2016
page(s): 19 [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): 19 [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 K 001392920, geounit Sarawak [details]
From editor or global species database
Description Robust, rhizomatous; rhizome 13–15 mm diameter. Culm solitary, more or less erect or lateral, 5–27 x 0.5–0.9 cm, terete, mostly scabrid, medium greenish when fresh and becoming brownish when dry. Leaves basal, crowded and distinctly 3-ranked, up to 155 cm long; leaf blade narrowly linear, 122–145 x 2–2.5 cm, apex gradually narrowed, acuminate with long acumen, 8–10 cm long, base very gradually narrowed into sheath, coriaceous, medium green when fresh and becoming brownish when dry 1-nerved to indistinctly 3-nerved, secondary nerves indistinct with septate-nodulose when dry, strongly inverse w-shaped in cross-section, margins densely serrulate, pseudopetiole absent, sheaths lanceolate, 6.2–10 x 1–2 cm, apex very gradually narrowed, thickly coriaceous, shiny, mid– to –dark chocolate brown. Involucral bract 2–4, glumaceous, lanceolate, 20–24 x 3–5 mm, apex acuminate, dark chocolate brown. Inflorescence up to 10 or more per plant, terminal capitulum, composed of 3 spikes, seldom with solitary spike; spikes rounded to lanceolate, 10–20 x 5–8 mm, acute to obtuse, or sub-obtuse, greenish brown; spicoid bract lanceolate, 5–8 x 6–8 mm, subobtuse, subcoriacoues, greenish brown, light brown along the margin edge, faintly with hairs, nerves indistinct; floral bract 6, free, lower 2 bracts linear, 4–5 x 0.6–1 mm, acute, mid-brown, keeled, wingless, hispid to ciliate hispid, upper bract linear-lanceolate, 3.8–4.6 x 0.4–0.8 mm, acute flat to keeled, transparent light brown, staminate flowers 4 per spicoid, anther linear, 6 mm, stigma branches 2, c. 2 mm long, whitish; style 4 mm long. Fruit obovoid, 5–6 x 2–3 mm, apex with extended conical, keeled, base shortly stipitate, exocarp hard, rugose at the upper part and with small tubercles at lower part, brownish at the lower part and become darker toward the apex and apex blackish. [details]Diagnosis Mapania kadimiana closely resembles M. spadicea Uittien differing by having three spikes in sessile terminal capitulum (vs solitary spikes not forming a capitulum). [details]
Ecology At present this species is recorded from the type locality only where it occurs lithophytically or on slopes in wet or damp places, often near to streams under mixed dipterocarp forest. [details]
Etymology This species is named after the Vice Chancellor, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Prof. Dato’ Dr. Mohamad Kadim Suaidi for his continual support of the biodiversity research in
Sarawak. [details]
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To Plants of the World Online
To Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Mapania kadimiana K001392920 holotype 1)
To Plants of the World Online
To Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Mapania kadimiana K001392920 holotype 1)
From editor or global species database
Hosted externally
