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Cyperaceae taxon details

Carex oxyphylla Franch.

1676677  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1676677)

accepted
Species
terrestrial
Franchet, A. (1898). Les Carex de l'Asie orientale. Nouvelles archives du Muséum d'histoire naturelle, 10: 39-120., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36859603
page(s): 57 [details] 
Holotype  P 00284335, geounit Yunnan  
Holotype P 00284335, geounit Yunnan [details]
Description Rhizome stoloniferous. Culms 20-40 cm tall, smooth. Leaves surpassing culm, blades linear, 2-4 mm wide, flat, margins...  
Description Rhizome stoloniferous. Culms 20-40 cm tall, smooth. Leaves surpassing culm, blades linear, 2-4 mm wide, flat, margins scabrous, apex long acuminate. Involucral bracts leaflike, lower involucral bracts sheathing, upper involucral bracts shortly sheathing or not. Spikes 3-5, lowest spike distant, upper spikes approximate; terminal spike male, cylindric, subacute, ca. 2 cm, shortly pedunculate; lateral spikes female, often bearing several male flowers, oblong or cylindric, shortly pedunculate. Female glumes pale white, ovate-lanceolate or ovate, green 1-veined costa excurrent into an awn. Utricles green-brown, equaling glume, ovate-trigonous, ca. 3 mm, apex abruptly contracted into a short beak, orifice 2-toothed. Nutlets obovate or broadly ovate, ca. 1.2 mm, trigonous, faces concave with grains transparent on surfaces, apex rounded; style base not thickened; stigmas 3. [details]

Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. sér. 3, 10: 57 (non Britton). 1898 to...  
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. sér. 3, 10: 57 (non Britton). 1898 to Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. , sér. 3, 10: 57 (1898), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be fou [details]
Cyperaceae Working Group. (2025). [see How to cite]. Global Cyperaceae Database. Carex oxyphylla Franch.. Accessed at: https://www.cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1676677 on 2026-06-15
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Nomenclature

original description Franchet, A. (1898). Les Carex de l'Asie orientale. Nouvelles archives du Muséum d'histoire naturelle, 10: 39-120., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36859603
page(s): 57 [details] 

original description (of Carex macrandrolepsis H.Lév.) Léveillé, H. (1908). Carices novae Coreanae. <em>Repertorium specierum novarum regni vegetabilis.</em> 5: 239-241., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/232594#page/1/mode/1up
page(s): 239 [details] 

original description (of Carex lyi H.Lév. & Vaniot) Léveillé, H. (1907). Novitates sinenses. <em>Repertorium specierum novarum regni vegetabilis.</em> 3: 349-351., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/233631#page/397/mode/1up
page(s): 349 [details] 

original description (of Carex infossa var. extensa S.W.Su) Su, S. W. (1996). New taxa of the genus Carex (sect. Hirtae Tuckerman) from Anhui Province (China). Journal of Anhui University. Natural science edition, 20(3): 105-108.
page(s): 108 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

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

Other

additional source Li, B. Z.; Zhang, S. R. (2024). An updated species checklist and taxonomic synopsis of Cyperaceae in China. <em>Biodiversity Science.</em> 32(7): 24106., available online at https://doi.org/10.17520/biods.2024106 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Holotype P 00284335, geounit Yunnan [details]
Isotype P 00284324, geounit Yunnan [details]
From editor or global species database
Description Rhizome stoloniferous. Culms 20-40 cm tall, smooth. Leaves surpassing culm, blades linear, 2-4 mm wide, flat, margins scabrous, apex long acuminate. Involucral bracts leaflike, lower involucral bracts sheathing, upper involucral bracts shortly sheathing or not. Spikes 3-5, lowest spike distant, upper spikes approximate; terminal spike male, cylindric, subacute, ca. 2 cm, shortly pedunculate; lateral spikes female, often bearing several male flowers, oblong or cylindric, shortly pedunculate. Female glumes pale white, ovate-lanceolate or ovate, green 1-veined costa excurrent into an awn. Utricles green-brown, equaling glume, ovate-trigonous, ca. 3 mm, apex abruptly contracted into a short beak, orifice 2-toothed. Nutlets obovate or broadly ovate, ca. 1.2 mm, trigonous, faces concave with grains transparent on surfaces, apex rounded; style base not thickened; stigmas 3. [details]

Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. sér. 3, 10: 57 (non Britton). 1898 to Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. , sér. 3, 10: 57 (1898), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be fou [details]
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Japanese カタスゲ(Kata-suge) [from synonym]  [details]