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Cyperaceae taxon details

Carex montana L.

1676300  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1676300)

  1. Biota
  2. Plantae (Kingdom)
  3. Viridiplantae (Subkingdom)
  4. Streptophyta (Infrakingdom)
  5. Tracheophyta (Phylum (Division))
  6. Spermatophytina (Subphylum (Subdivision))
  7. Magnoliopsida (Class)
  8. Lilianae (Superorder)
  9. Poales (Order)
  10. Cyperaceae (Family)
  11. Cariceae (Tribe)
  12. Carex (Genus)
  13. Carex subg. Carex (Subgenus)
  14. Carex sect. Acrocystis (Section)
  15. Carex montana (Species)
accepted
Species
Carex collina Willd. · unaccepted
Carex conglobata All. · unaccepted
Carex czetzii Janka · unaccepted
Carex filiformis L. · unaccepted
Carex gracilis Moench · unaccepted
Carex perennis Krock. · unaccepted
Carex pumila Honck. · unaccepted

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  1. Forma Carex montana f. albescens Bornm. & Kük. accepted as Carex montana L.
  2. Forma Carex montana f. bulboides Waisb. accepted as Carex montana L.
  3. Forma Carex montana f. fimbriata Waisb. accepted as Carex montana L.
  4. Forma Carex montana f. gracilior Waisb. accepted as Carex montana L.
  5. Forma Carex montana f. marginata Waisb. accepted as Carex montana L.
  6. Forma Carex montana f. pallescens Döll accepted as Carex montana L.
  7. Forma Carex montana f. pseudopallescens Kneuck. accepted as Carex montana L.
  8. Forma Carex montana f. remotiflora Waisb. accepted as Carex montana L.
  9. Forma Carex montana f. truncata Waisb. accepted as Carex montana L.
  10. Subspecies Carex montana subsp. csetzii (Janka) Nyman accepted as Carex montana L.
  11. Subspecies Carex montana subsp. fritschii (Waisb.) O.Schwarz accepted as Carex fritschii Waisb.
  12. Variety Carex montana var. conglobata (All.) Nyman accepted as Carex montana L.
  13. Variety Carex montana var. emarginata (Willd.) Nyman accepted as Carex montana L.
  14. Variety Carex montana var. flavida Waisb. accepted as Carex montana L.
  15. Variety Carex montana var. gracilior Waisb. accepted as Carex montana L.
  16. Variety Carex montana var. luxurians Čelak. accepted as Carex montana L.
  17. Variety Carex montana var. manshuriensis Kom. accepted as Carex ulobasis V.I.Krecz.
  18. Variety Carex montana var. oxyandra Franch. & Sav. accepted as Carex oxyandra (Franch. & Sav.) Kudô
  19. Variety Carex montana var. procera Gaudin accepted as Carex montana L.
  20. Variety Carex montana var. procerior Gaudin accepted as Carex montana L.
  21. Variety Carex montana var. rigida Waisb. accepted as Carex montana L.
  22. Variety Carex montana var. verniformis Waisb. accepted as Carex montana L.
terrestrial
Linnaeus, C. (1753). Species plantarum, exhibentes plantas rite cognitas ad genera relatas cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas. Vol 2. Salvius, Stockholm., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/358580
page(s): 975 [details] 
Lectotype  LINN HL1100-43  
Lectotype LINN HL1100-43 [details]
Description Rhizomes creeping, woody, much branched, with clones often dying out in the centre and forming a ring of shoots tufted at...  
Description Rhizomes creeping, woody, much branched, with clones often dying out in the centre and forming a ring of shoots tufted at the apex; roots woody, purple-brown; scales red-brown, becoming fibrous at base. Stems 10–40 cm, slender, rough at top, flaccid, trigonous or often with six angles toward base, ± solid, leafless or with few short leaves at the base. Leaves 10–35 cm × 1.5–2 mm, soft, flat, gradually drawn out to a slender point, sparsely hairy near tip and edges, becoming glabrous, light to mid-green, grey-brown and persisting on dying; hypostomous; sheaths dark red-brown to almost bright red, ribbed, becoming fibrous and densely clothing the rhizome, inner face hyaline, soon decaying; apex concave; ligule c. 1 mm, obtuse, with free margin minutely fimbriate. Inflorescence 1–2 cm, very congested; bracts glumaceous or lowest setaceous, the lowest scarcely sheathing. Male spike 1, 10–20 mm; male glumes 4–5 mm, oblanceolate or broadly elliptic, red-brown with pale midrib, apex acute or ± mucronate. Female spikes 1–4, 6–10 mm, ovoid, with few lax flowers, clustered beneath male spike, erect, sessile; female glumes 3–5 mm, broadly ovate or obovate, reddish-black with pale midrib and hyaline margin, apex obtuse or even retuse, mucronate. Utricles 3.5–4 mm, obovoid-pyriform, bluntly trigonous, tapered to a stout stalk, densely hispid, lightly ribbed, brown or blackish on exposed face; beak almost absent, notched; stigmas 3; nut obovoid, trigonous, stalked. [details]

Description Más o menos cespitosa; rizomas generalmente con entrenudos largos y gruesos. Tallos (3)8–20(40) cm, trígonos, ±...  
Description Más o menos cespitosa; rizomas generalmente con entrenudos largos y gruesos. Tallos (3)8–20(40) cm, trígonos, ± escábridos hacia el ápice. Hojas (1,1)5–2(2,8) mm de anchura, de longitud menor o mayor que los tallos, ásperas en los bordes y el nervio medio del envés de la zona superior, planas, blandas; lígula diminuta, de ápice redondeado; sin antelígula; vainas basales con limbo desarrollado, de algo rotas a fibrosas, de color pardo o púrpura. Bráctea inferior setácea o glumácea con punta setácea, de menor longitud que la inflorescencia, no envainante o con una vaina hasta de 3 mm. Espiga masculina solitaria, de 5–10(15) mm, ovoide o anchamente fusiforme; espigas femeninas 1(3), de 4–7(8) mm, erectas, ovoides o subglobosas, densifloras, aproximadas junto a la masculina, sésiles. Glumas masculinas oblongas, obtusas o redondeadas, de color pardo rojizo oscuro, con margen escarioso o sin él; glumas femeninas de anchamente lanceoladas a ovales, de ápice obtuso o redondeado, a veces mucronulado, de color pardo-púrpura, pardo-rojizo oscuro o negruzcas, sin margen escarioso, de menor longitud que los utrículos. Estigmas 3. Utrículos 3–4(4,5) × 1–1,6 mm, suberectos, de contorno generalmente oblongo u ovado-oblongo, trígonos, con los nervios poco perceptibles, densamente pubescentes, verdosos en la parte inferior y negruzcos en la superior, estipitados, gradualmente atenuados o bruscamente estrechados en un pico de 0,2–0,5 mm, de ápice corto o cegamente bidentado. Aquenios 2–2,4 × 0,9–1,5 mm, de contorno elíptico, trígonos, parduscos. 2n = 38*. [details]

Description Densely caespitose, with short, ascending or long, creeping rhizomes. Stems (5-)10-40 cm, scabrid above; basal sheaths...  
Description Densely caespitose, with short, ascending or long, creeping rhizomes. Stems (5-)10-40 cm, scabrid above; basal sheaths reddish or purplish, becoming fibrous. Leaves 1-5-2 mm wide, shorter or longer than stems, pale green, persistent, sparsely hairy above but glabrescent. Male spike solitary, 10-20xc. 2mm, linear- ellipsoid. Female spikes 1—3(—4), 5-8 x 4-6 mm, ovoid, sessile, usually overlapping; lowest bract up to as long as spike (rarely longer), glumaceous or setaceous, scarcely sheathing. Female glumes ovate or obovate, obtuse, often mucronate, blackish- or dark purplish-brown, often with narrow scarious margin. Utricles 3-4-5 mm, obovoid, substipitate, greenish-brown, often blackish above, faintly veined, densely puberulent, rounded at apex and with a minute, emarginate beak. 2n = 38.  [details]

Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Sp. Pl. 975 1753 to Sp. Pl. : 975 (1753), information provided by...  
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Sp. Pl. 975 1753 to Sp. Pl. : 975 (1753), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be found in The Plant L [details]
Cyperaceae Working Group. (2025). [see How to cite]. Global Cyperaceae Database. Carex montana L.. Accessed at: https://www.cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1676300 on 2026-05-21
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Nomenclature

original description Linnaeus, C. (1753). Species plantarum, exhibentes plantas rite cognitas ad genera relatas cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas. Vol 2. Salvius, Stockholm., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/358580
page(s): 975 [details] 

basis of record Plants of the World Online (POWO). , available online at https://powo.science.kew.org/ [details] 

Taxonomy

taxonomy source Jermy, A.C.; Simpson, D.A.; Foley, M.J.Y.; Porter, M.S. (2007). Sedges of the British Isles. 554 pp. Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland, United Kingdom. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

taxonomy source Luceño, M., Castroviejo, S., Jiménez-Mejías, P. (2008). Cyperaceae. In: Castroviejo, Luceño, M., Galán, A., Jiménez-Mejías, P., Cabezas, F., Medina, L. (eds). Flora iberica. Plantas vasculares de la Península Ibérica e Islas Baleares. Vol. XVIII. Madrid: CSIC., available online at https://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/records/item/12958-flora-iberica-vol-18-cyperaceae-pontederiaceae?offset=, http://www.floraiberica.es/PHP/familias_lista_.php?familia=Cyperaceae [details] 

 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Lectotype LINN HL1100-43 [details]
From editor or global species database
Description Rhizomes creeping, woody, much branched, with clones often dying out in the centre and forming a ring of shoots tufted at the apex; roots woody, purple-brown; scales red-brown, becoming fibrous at base. Stems 10–40 cm, slender, rough at top, flaccid, trigonous or often with six angles toward base, ± solid, leafless or with few short leaves at the base. Leaves 10–35 cm × 1.5–2 mm, soft, flat, gradually drawn out to a slender point, sparsely hairy near tip and edges, becoming glabrous, light to mid-green, grey-brown and persisting on dying; hypostomous; sheaths dark red-brown to almost bright red, ribbed, becoming fibrous and densely clothing the rhizome, inner face hyaline, soon decaying; apex concave; ligule c. 1 mm, obtuse, with free margin minutely fimbriate. Inflorescence 1–2 cm, very congested; bracts glumaceous or lowest setaceous, the lowest scarcely sheathing. Male spike 1, 10–20 mm; male glumes 4–5 mm, oblanceolate or broadly elliptic, red-brown with pale midrib, apex acute or ± mucronate. Female spikes 1–4, 6–10 mm, ovoid, with few lax flowers, clustered beneath male spike, erect, sessile; female glumes 3–5 mm, broadly ovate or obovate, reddish-black with pale midrib and hyaline margin, apex obtuse or even retuse, mucronate. Utricles 3.5–4 mm, obovoid-pyriform, bluntly trigonous, tapered to a stout stalk, densely hispid, lightly ribbed, brown or blackish on exposed face; beak almost absent, notched; stigmas 3; nut obovoid, trigonous, stalked. [details]

Description Más o menos cespitosa; rizomas generalmente con entrenudos largos y gruesos. Tallos (3)8–20(40) cm, trígonos, ± escábridos hacia el ápice. Hojas (1,1)5–2(2,8) mm de anchura, de longitud menor o mayor que los tallos, ásperas en los bordes y el nervio medio del envés de la zona superior, planas, blandas; lígula diminuta, de ápice redondeado; sin antelígula; vainas basales con limbo desarrollado, de algo rotas a fibrosas, de color pardo o púrpura. Bráctea inferior setácea o glumácea con punta setácea, de menor longitud que la inflorescencia, no envainante o con una vaina hasta de 3 mm. Espiga masculina solitaria, de 5–10(15) mm, ovoide o anchamente fusiforme; espigas femeninas 1(3), de 4–7(8) mm, erectas, ovoides o subglobosas, densifloras, aproximadas junto a la masculina, sésiles. Glumas masculinas oblongas, obtusas o redondeadas, de color pardo rojizo oscuro, con margen escarioso o sin él; glumas femeninas de anchamente lanceoladas a ovales, de ápice obtuso o redondeado, a veces mucronulado, de color pardo-púrpura, pardo-rojizo oscuro o negruzcas, sin margen escarioso, de menor longitud que los utrículos. Estigmas 3. Utrículos 3–4(4,5) × 1–1,6 mm, suberectos, de contorno generalmente oblongo u ovado-oblongo, trígonos, con los nervios poco perceptibles, densamente pubescentes, verdosos en la parte inferior y negruzcos en la superior, estipitados, gradualmente atenuados o bruscamente estrechados en un pico de 0,2–0,5 mm, de ápice corto o cegamente bidentado. Aquenios 2–2,4 × 0,9–1,5 mm, de contorno elíptico, trígonos, parduscos. 2n = 38*. [details]

Description Densely caespitose, with short, ascending or long, creeping rhizomes. Stems (5-)10-40 cm, scabrid above; basal sheaths reddish or purplish, becoming fibrous. Leaves 1-5-2 mm wide, shorter or longer than stems, pale green, persistent, sparsely hairy above but glabrescent. Male spike solitary, 10-20xc. 2mm, linear- ellipsoid. Female spikes 1—3(—4), 5-8 x 4-6 mm, ovoid, sessile, usually overlapping; lowest bract up to as long as spike (rarely longer), glumaceous or setaceous, scarcely sheathing. Female glumes ovate or obovate, obtuse, often mucronate, blackish- or dark purplish-brown, often with narrow scarious margin. Utricles 3-4-5 mm, obovoid, substipitate, greenish-brown, often blackish above, faintly veined, densely puberulent, rounded at apex and with a minute, emarginate beak. 2n = 38.  [details]

Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Sp. Pl. 975 1753 to Sp. Pl. : 975 (1753), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be found in The Plant L [details]

Translation More or less tufted; rhizomes usually with long, thick internodes. Stems (3)8–20(40) cm, trigonous, ± scabrid towards the apex. Leaves (1.1)5–2(2.8) mm wide, shorter or longer than the stems, rough along the margins and the midrib on the upper part of the abaxial surface, flat, soft; ligule minute, with a rounded apex; without antiligule; basal sheaths with a developed blade, somewhat torn to fibrous, brown or purple in colour. Lower bract setaceous or glumaceous with a setaceous tip, shorter than the inflorescence, not sheathing or with a sheath up to 3 mm long. Male spike solitary, 5–10(15) mm, ovoid or broadly fusiform; female spikes 1(3), 4–7(8) mm, erect, ovoid or subglobose, densely flowered, closely approximated to the male spike, sessile. Male glumes oblong, obtuse or rounded, dark reddish-brown, with or without a scarious margin; female glumes from broadly lanceolate to ovate, with obtuse or rounded apex, sometimes mucronulate, brown-purple, dark reddish-brown or blackish, without a scarious margin, shorter than the utricles. Stigmas 3. Utricles 3–4(4.5) × 1–1.6 mm, suberect, generally oblong or ovate-oblong in outline, trigonous, with nerves scarcely visible, densely pubescent, greenish on the lower part and blackish on the upper part, stipitate, gradually attenuated or abruptly constricted into a beak 0.2–0.5 mm long, with a short apex or bluntly bidentate. Achenes 2–2.4 × 0.9–1.5 mm, elliptic in outline, trigonous, brownish. 2n = 38*. [details]
    Definitions

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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Diemisa filiformis (L.) Raf.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Carex montana var. procerior Gaudin)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (109 publications) (from synonym Carex pumila Honck.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) (from synonym Carex caryophyllaea J.F.Gmel.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) (from synonym Carex emarginata Willd.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (227 publications) (from synonym Carex pubescens Gilib.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Carex perennis Krock.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Carex perennis Krock. ex Steud.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (351 publications) (from synonym Carex gracilis Moench)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Trasus filiformis (L.) Gray)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (48 publications) (from synonym Carex conglobata All.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (55 publications) (from synonym Carex collina Willd.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (560 publications) (from synonym Carex praecox Pollich ex Steud.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (585 publications) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (793 publications) (from synonym Carex filiformis L.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Carex caryophyllata Kunth)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carex filiformis) (from synonym Carex filiformis L.)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carex montana) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carex praecox) (from synonym Carex praecox Pollich ex Steud.)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carex pumila) (from synonym Carex pumila Honck.)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Carex filiformis L.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex perennis Krock.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex gracilis Moench)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex filiformis L.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex pubescens Gilib.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex pumila Honck.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex montana subsp. csetzii (Janka) Nyman)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Trasus filiformis var. simplex Gray)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex perennis Krock. ex Steud.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex montana var. procerior Gaudin)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex montana var. flavida Waisb.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex montana var. luxurians Čelak.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex praecox Pollich ex Steud.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex conglobata All.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex emarginata Willd.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex caryophyllata Kunth)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex collina Willd.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex czetzii Janka)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Diemisa filiformis (L.) Raf.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) 
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Trasus filiformis (L.) Gray)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex caryophyllaea J.F.Gmel.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex montana var. rigida Waisb.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex montana var. verniformis Waisb.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex montana var. emarginata (Willd.) Nyman)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex montana var. conglobata (All.) Nyman)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex montana var. procera Gaudin)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex montana f. albescens Bornm. & Kük.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex montana f. bulboides Waisb.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex montana f. fimbriata Waisb.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex montana f. gracilior Waisb.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex montana f. marginata Waisb.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex montana f. pallescens Döll)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex montana f. pseudopallescens Kneuck.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex montana f. remotiflora Waisb.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex montana f. truncata Waisb.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex montana var. gracilior Waisb.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex montana var. procera Gaudin)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex montana var. conglobata (All.) Nyman)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex montana var. emarginata (Willd.) Nyman)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex montana var. verniformis Waisb.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex caryophyllaea J.F.Gmel.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex collina Willd.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex caryophyllata Kunth)
To Plants of the World Online 
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Diemisa filiformis (L.) Raf.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Trasus filiformis (L.) Gray)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex emarginata Willd.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex czetzii Janka)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex conglobata All.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex praecox Pollich ex Steud.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex pubescens Gilib.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex montana var. procerior Gaudin)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex montana var. luxurians Čelak.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex montana var. rigida Waisb.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex montana var. flavida Waisb.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Trasus filiformis var. simplex Gray)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex montana subsp. csetzii (Janka) Nyman)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex pumila Honck.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex filiformis L.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex perennis Krock.)
To The Plant List (from synonym Carex gracilis Moench)
To The Plant List (from synonym Carex perennis Krock. ex Steud.)
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