Cyperaceae taxon details
Mapania mirae Shabdin & Meekiong
1678533 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1678533)
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Miraadila, M. I.; Shabdin, Z.; Meekiong, K. (2016). The genus <i>Mapania</i> Aublet (Mapanioideae, Cyperaceae): nine new taxa from Sarawak, Malaysia. <em>Folia Malaysiana.</em> 17(2): 1-28.
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Holotype SAR, geounit Sarawak
Holotype SAR, geounit Sarawak [details]
Description Robust, rhizomatous herbs with rhizomes 3–3.3 mm in diameter. Cataphylls absent. Culms several, erect, arising from leaf...
Etymology Named in honour of Miraadila Mohd Isa, who studies the genus in Sarawak
Description Robust, rhizomatous herbs with rhizomes 3–3.3 mm in diameter. Cataphylls absent. Culms several, erect, arising from leaf axils, up to 5.5 cm long, slender (0.8–1 mm diameter), glabrous, greenish-yellow to yellowish. Leaves weakly 3-ranked, up to 25 cm long; leaf-blade linear, 10–20 cm × 3–8 mm, apex very gradually narrowed, base tapered into sheath, soft with a metallic blue sheen, 3-nerved (secondary nerves indistinct), flat in cross-section, distinctly septate-nodulose when dry, margins coarsely serrulate; pseudopetiole absent. Involucral bracts several, glumaceous, ovate to lanceolate, 1–2 × 1 mm, basal bract shorter, obtuse, subcoriaceous, light brown, glabrous, nerves indistinct. Inflorescence terminal, elliptic to lanceolate, spike solitary, 6–8 × 2–2.5 mm, greenish-yellow to yellowish-light brown; spicoid bracts lanceolate, 5–5.5 × 1–1.5 mm, subcoriaceous, matching spike color, nerves indistinct. Floral bracts 6, free; lowest 2 linear to linear-lanceolate, 0.8–1 mm, flat, glabrous. Staminate flowers and anthers not observed. Stigma branches 2; style up to 5 mm long. Fruit obovoid, 0.8 × 0.2 cm, apex apiculate, base stipitate; exocarp succulent, thin, unsculptured, dark brown to black; costae absent. [details]
Etymology Named in honour of Miraadila Mohd Isa, who studies the genus in Sarawak
Etymology Named in honour of Miraadila Mohd Isa, who studies the genus in Sarawak [details]
Cyperaceae Working Group. (2025). [see How to cite]. Global Cyperaceae Database. Mapania mirae Shabdin & Meekiong. Accessed at: https://cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1678533 on 2025-09-12
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Nomenclature
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype SAR, geounit Sarawak [details]
Isotype HUMS, geounit Sarawak [details]
Isotype K 001392922, geounit Sarawak [details]
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Description Robust, rhizomatous herbs with rhizomes 3–3.3 mm in diameter. Cataphylls absent. Culms several, erect, arising from leaf axils, up to 5.5 cm long, slender (0.8–1 mm diameter), glabrous, greenish-yellow to yellowish. Leaves weakly 3-ranked, up to 25 cm long; leaf-blade linear, 10–20 cm × 3–8 mm, apex very gradually narrowed, base tapered into sheath, soft with a metallic blue sheen, 3-nerved (secondary nerves indistinct), flat in cross-section, distinctly septate-nodulose when dry, margins coarsely serrulate; pseudopetiole absent. Involucral bracts several, glumaceous, ovate to lanceolate, 1–2 × 1 mm, basal bract shorter, obtuse, subcoriaceous, light brown, glabrous, nerves indistinct. Inflorescence terminal, elliptic to lanceolate, spike solitary, 6–8 × 2–2.5 mm, greenish-yellow to yellowish-light brown; spicoid bracts lanceolate, 5–5.5 × 1–1.5 mm, subcoriaceous, matching spike color, nerves indistinct. Floral bracts 6, free; lowest 2 linear to linear-lanceolate, 0.8–1 mm, flat, glabrous. Staminate flowers and anthers not observed. Stigma branches 2; style up to 5 mm long. Fruit obovoid, 0.8 × 0.2 cm, apex apiculate, base stipitate; exocarp succulent, thin, unsculptured, dark brown to black; costae absent. [details]Diagnosis A small Mapania species, reaching 25–30 cm tall, resembling M. caudata with its metallic blue-sheen leaves. It differs by having inflorescences arising from the leaf axils, whereas M. caudata produces them from the side of the rhizome. [details]
Etymology Named in honour of Miraadila Mohd Isa, who studies the genus in Sarawak [details]
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To Plants of the World Online
To Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Mapania mirae K001392922 isotype 1)
To Plants of the World Online
To Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Mapania mirae K001392922 isotype 1)
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