Cyperaceae name details
Exocarya sclerioides (F.Muell.) Benth.
1680651 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1680651)
unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling (Mueller's original spelling was 'scleroides')
Species
Exocarya montivaga Domin · unaccepted
Scleria ustulata F.M.Bailey · unaccepted
recent only
(of Cladium sclerioides F.Muell.) Mueller, F. (1875). Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae. Vol. 9. Melbourne. Auctoritate Gubern. Coloniæ Victoriae, Ex Officina Joannis Ferres. 216 p., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/7226
page(s): 12 [details]
page(s): 12 [details]
Description Tall, slender, tuft-forming perennial, with creeping rhizome. Culms trigonous, smooth or scabrous, to c. 1 m high and c. 3...
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Updated scientificnameAuthorship from (F.Muell.) Benth. to Benth., information provided by Alan E....
Description Tall, slender, tuft-forming perennial, with creeping rhizome. Culms trigonous, smooth or scabrous, to c. 1 m high and c. 3 mm diam. Cauline leaves to 35 cm long, to 6.5 mm wide; sheaths closed, with glabrous or minutely ciliate mouth. Inflorescence slender, to 40 cm long, with slender branches to 22 cm long; involucral bracts shorter than to exceeding inflorescence. Spikelet-like units 2.5–4 mm long, with the lowest 3–6 pseudospikelets reduced to 1 broad empty glume c. 1 mm long, the upper pseudospikelets bisexual or functionally male, only the uppermost maturing a nut. In each fertile pseudospikelet, the lowest glume papery, obtuse, very dark red-brown to blackish, with whitish erose margins; the 2 keeled glumes and the 2 flattened glumes pale brown, c. 2 mm long. Nut much exserted, narrow-ovoid, c. 4 mm long, c. 2.5 mm diam., yellow-brown, red-dotted, the remains of the pseudospikelet forming a small tuft at its base. Style base black, larger than the ovary at the time of flowering but not conspicuous at maturity, forming a small blackish stipitate apex to nut. [details]
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Updated scientificnameAuthorship from (F.Muell.) Benth. to Benth., information provided by Alan E....
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Updated scientificnameAuthorship from (F.Muell.) Benth. to Benth., information provided by Alan E. on email Oct. 12 2020 More details could be found in The Plant List [details]
Cyperaceae Working Group. (2025). [see How to cite]. Global Cyperaceae Database. Exocarya sclerioides (F.Muell.) Benth.. Accessed at: https://cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1680651 on 2025-09-11
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Cladium sclerioides F.Muell.) Mueller, F. (1875). Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae. Vol. 9. Melbourne. Auctoritate Gubern. Coloniæ Victoriae, Ex Officina Joannis Ferres. 216 p., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/7226
page(s): 12 [details]
basis of record Plants of the World Online (POWO). , available online at https://powo.science.kew.org/ [details]
page(s): 12 [details]
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
From editor or global species database
Description Tall, slender, tuft-forming perennial, with creeping rhizome. Culms trigonous, smooth or scabrous, to c. 1 m high and c. 3 mm diam. Cauline leaves to 35 cm long, to 6.5 mm wide; sheaths closed, with glabrous or minutely ciliate mouth. Inflorescence slender, to 40 cm long, with slender branches to 22 cm long; involucral bracts shorter than to exceeding inflorescence. Spikelet-like units 2.5–4 mm long, with the lowest 3–6 pseudospikelets reduced to 1 broad empty glume c. 1 mm long, the upper pseudospikelets bisexual or functionally male, only the uppermost maturing a nut. In each fertile pseudospikelet, the lowest glume papery, obtuse, very dark red-brown to blackish, with whitish erose margins; the 2 keeled glumes and the 2 flattened glumes pale brown, c. 2 mm long. Nut much exserted, narrow-ovoid, c. 4 mm long, c. 2.5 mm diam., yellow-brown, red-dotted, the remains of the pseudospikelet forming a small tuft at its base. Style base black, larger than the ovary at the time of flowering but not conspicuous at maturity, forming a small blackish stipitate apex to nut. [details]Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Updated scientificnameAuthorship from (F.Muell.) Benth. to Benth., information provided by Alan E. on email Oct. 12 2020 More details could be found in The Plant List [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications) (from synonym Scleria ustulata F.M.Bailey)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Exocarya montivaga Domin)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Exocarya sclerioides)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Exocarya montivaga Domin)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Scleria ustulata F.M.Bailey)
To Plants of the World Online
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Exocarya montivaga Domin)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Scleria ustulata F.M.Bailey)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Exocarya montivaga Domin)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Exocarya sclerioides)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Exocarya montivaga Domin)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Scleria ustulata F.M.Bailey)
To Plants of the World Online
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Exocarya montivaga Domin)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Scleria ustulata F.M.Bailey)
