Cyperaceae taxon details
Exocarya scleroides (F.Muell.) Benth.
Cladium sclerioides F.Muell. · unaccepted (Orthographic variant of original...)
Orthographic variant of original spelling
Cladium scleroides F.Muell. · unaccepted (Basionym of Exocarya scleroides)
Exocarya montivaga Domin · unaccepted
Exocarya sclerioides (F.Muell.) Benth. · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling (Mueller's original spelling was...)
Mueller's original spelling was 'scleroides'
Scleria ustulata F.M.Bailey · unaccepted
recent only
Not documented
Description Tall, slender, tuft-forming perennial, with creeping rhizome. Culms trigonous, smooth or scabrous, to c. 1 m high and c. 3...
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]
Cyperaceae Working Group. (2025). [see How to cite]. Global Cyperaceae Database. Exocarya scleroides (F.Muell.) Benth.. Accessed at: https://cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1824051 on 2025-09-12
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Nomenclature
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(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]
original description (of Cladium scleroides 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]
original description (of Cladium scleroides 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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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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]
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) (from synonym Exocarya sclerioides (F.Muell.) Benth.)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Exocarya sclerioides) (from synonym Exocarya sclerioides (F.Muell.) Benth.)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Exocarya sclerioides (F.Muell.) Benth.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Exocarya sclerioides (F.Muell.) Benth.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Cladium sclerioides F.Muell.)
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 (from synonym Scleria ustulata F.M.Bailey)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Exocarya montivaga Domin)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Cladium sclerioides F.Muell.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Exocarya sclerioides (F.Muell.) Benth.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Exocarya montivaga Domin)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Exocarya sclerioides (F.Muell.) Benth.)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Exocarya sclerioides) (from synonym Exocarya sclerioides (F.Muell.) Benth.)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Exocarya sclerioides (F.Muell.) Benth.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Exocarya sclerioides (F.Muell.) Benth.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Cladium sclerioides F.Muell.)
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 (from synonym Scleria ustulata F.M.Bailey)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Exocarya montivaga Domin)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Cladium sclerioides F.Muell.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Exocarya sclerioides (F.Muell.) Benth.)
