Cyperaceae taxon details
Carex rupestris All.
1677003 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1677003)
accepted
Species
Carex rupestris var. rupestris · unaccepted
Caricinella rupestris (All.) St.-Lag. · unaccepted
Edritria rupestris (All.) Raf. · unaccepted
- Subspecies Carex rupestris subsp. altimontana T.V.Ebel
- Subspecies Carex rupestris subsp. rupestris
- Forma Carex rupestris f. pygmaea Bolzon accepted as Carex rupestris subsp. rupestris
- Subspecies Carex rupestris subsp. alticola (Popl. ex Sukaczev) Vorosch. accepted as Carex argunensis Turcz. ex Trevir.
- Subspecies Carex rupestris subsp. argunensis (Turcz. ex Trevir.) Vorosch. accepted as Carex argunensis Turcz. ex Trevir.
- Subspecies Carex rupestris subsp. drummondiana (Dewey) Holub accepted as Carex rupestris subsp. rupestris
- Variety Carex rupestris var. drummondiana (Dewey) L.H.Bailey accepted as Carex rupestris subsp. rupestris
- Variety Carex rupestris var. rupestris accepted as Carex rupestris All.
terrestrial
Allionio, C. (1785). Flora Pedemontana sive Enumeratio Methodica stirpium indeginarum pedemontii. 2., available online at https://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/viewer/13177/?offset=#page=274&viewer=picture&o=bookmark&n=0&q=
page(s): 264 [details]
page(s): 264 [details]
Description Rhizomes shortly creeping, often much branched; shoots ± tufted; roots purple-brown, slender; scales shiny, red-brown,...
Description Rizoma de entrenudos largos, a veces laxamente cespitoso. Tallos (3,5)5–16(20) cm, trígonos con los ángulos agudos,...
Description Rhizomes brown or black, scaly. Culms 4–20 cm. Leaf blades channeled, tips soon becoming brown and dry, 2–12 cm ×...
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Fl. Pedem. ii. 264. t. 92. f. 1. 1785 to Fl. Pedem. 2: 264 (1785),...
Description Rhizomes shortly creeping, often much branched; shoots ± tufted; roots purple-brown, slender; scales shiny, red-brown, persistent. Stems 7–20 cm, stiff, trigonous, solid. Leaves 5–20 cm, 1–1.5 mm, often curled or twisted, flat below, becoming keeled towards the gradually attenuated, trigonous apex, dull dark green, persistent on dying; hypostomous; sheaths red- or orange-brown, ribbed, persistent; inner face hyaline, becoming brown and persisting, with a straight, brown apex; ligule 0.5–2 mm, rounded, ± tubular. Inflorescence a single, terminal spike 7–15 mm, male above, female below, with a single bract at base of spike, glumaceous with a setaceous point, caducous. Male glumes 2.5–3 mm, ovate, red- or purple-brown, with obscure midrib; apex acute. Female glumes 2.5–3.5 mm, elliptic to broadly ovate, dark red- or purple-brown, with obscure midrib and narrowly hyaline margins, persistent; apex obtuse, sometimes mucronate. Utricles c. 3 mm, obovoid, trigonous, faintly ribbed below, grey-green to brown, erecto-patent to erect at maturity; beak c. 0.3 mm, slightly notched; stigmas 3; nut broadly ellipsoid, trigonous. [details]
Description Rizoma de entrenudos largos, a veces laxamente cespitoso. Tallos (3,5)5–16(20) cm, trígonos con los ángulos agudos,...
Description Rizoma de entrenudos largos, a veces laxamente cespitoso. Tallos (3,5)5–16(20) cm, trígonos con los ángulos agudos, escábridos en la parte superior. Hojas (0,9)1,5–2,5(3) mm de anchura, de menor longitud que los tallos, planas o canaliculadas, ásperas en los bordes hacia el ápice; lígula hasta 1,5 mm, de ápice obtuso o redondeado; sin antelígula; vainas basales escuamiformes, enteras, de color pardo. Bráctea inferior setácea que protege un utrículo. Espiga 0,8–2,2 cm, oblonga, con (2)4–8(15) flores femeninas. Glumas anchamente ovales o suborbiculares, obtusas, de color pardo, con margen escarioso ancho, de mayor longitud que los utrículos. Utrículos (2,3)2,5–4 × 1–1,6(1,8) mm, de contorno anchamente elíptico u obovado, trígonos, con los nervios poco prominentes, suberectos, verdosos o parduscos, bruscamente estrechados o gradualmente atenuados en un pico de 0,1–0,4 mm, recto, generalmente liso, truncado. Aquenios 1,6–2,6 × 1–1,4 mm, de contorno elíptico u obovado, generalmente pardos. [details]
Description Rhizomes brown or black, scaly. Culms 4–20 cm. Leaf blades channeled, tips soon becoming brown and dry, 2–12 cm ×...
Description Rhizomes brown or black, scaly. Culms 4–20 cm. Leaf blades channeled, tips soon becoming brown and dry, 2–12 cm × 1–3 mm. Spike with 3–15 pistillate flowers, 8–20 × 1.5–4 mm. Pistillate scales brown, margins hyaline, midvein paler, circular-ovate 2.5–4 × 1.4–2.6 mm, apex obtuse, often concealing perigynia. Staminate scales brown, margins hyaline, midvein paler, oblong-lanceolate to obovate, 2.5–3.5 × 1.4–2 mm, apex acute or obtuse. Perigynia 2.5–4 × 1–2 mm. Achenes oblong-obovoid, 2.2–2.5 × 1.5 mm. 2n = 52. [details]
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Fl. Pedem. ii. 264. t. 92. f. 1. 1785 to Fl. Pedem. 2: 264 (1785),...
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Fl. Pedem. ii. 264. t. 92. f. 1. 1785 to Fl. Pedem. 2: 264 (1785), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be found in [details]
Cyperaceae Working Group. (2025). [see How to cite]. Global Cyperaceae Database. Carex rupestris All.. Accessed at: https://cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1677003 on 2026-06-06
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Nomenclature
original description
Allionio, C. (1785). Flora Pedemontana sive Enumeratio Methodica stirpium indeginarum pedemontii. 2., available online at https://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/viewer/13177/?offset=#page=274&viewer=picture&o=bookmark&n=0&q=
page(s): 264 [details]
basis of record Plants of the World Online (POWO). , available online at https://powo.science.kew.org/ [details]
page(s): 264 [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 
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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]
[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
Syntype BM 001067118, geounit Norway [details]
From editor or global species database
Additional information 2n=52 [details]Description Rhizomes shortly creeping, often much branched; shoots ± tufted; roots purple-brown, slender; scales shiny, red-brown, persistent. Stems 7–20 cm, stiff, trigonous, solid. Leaves 5–20 cm, 1–1.5 mm, often curled or twisted, flat below, becoming keeled towards the gradually attenuated, trigonous apex, dull dark green, persistent on dying; hypostomous; sheaths red- or orange-brown, ribbed, persistent; inner face hyaline, becoming brown and persisting, with a straight, brown apex; ligule 0.5–2 mm, rounded, ± tubular. Inflorescence a single, terminal spike 7–15 mm, male above, female below, with a single bract at base of spike, glumaceous with a setaceous point, caducous. Male glumes 2.5–3 mm, ovate, red- or purple-brown, with obscure midrib; apex acute. Female glumes 2.5–3.5 mm, elliptic to broadly ovate, dark red- or purple-brown, with obscure midrib and narrowly hyaline margins, persistent; apex obtuse, sometimes mucronate. Utricles c. 3 mm, obovoid, trigonous, faintly ribbed below, grey-green to brown, erecto-patent to erect at maturity; beak c. 0.3 mm, slightly notched; stigmas 3; nut broadly ellipsoid, trigonous. [details]
Description Rizoma de entrenudos largos, a veces laxamente cespitoso. Tallos (3,5)5–16(20) cm, trígonos con los ángulos agudos, escábridos en la parte superior. Hojas (0,9)1,5–2,5(3) mm de anchura, de menor longitud que los tallos, planas o canaliculadas, ásperas en los bordes hacia el ápice; lígula hasta 1,5 mm, de ápice obtuso o redondeado; sin antelígula; vainas basales escuamiformes, enteras, de color pardo. Bráctea inferior setácea que protege un utrículo. Espiga 0,8–2,2 cm, oblonga, con (2)4–8(15) flores femeninas. Glumas anchamente ovales o suborbiculares, obtusas, de color pardo, con margen escarioso ancho, de mayor longitud que los utrículos. Utrículos (2,3)2,5–4 × 1–1,6(1,8) mm, de contorno anchamente elíptico u obovado, trígonos, con los nervios poco prominentes, suberectos, verdosos o parduscos, bruscamente estrechados o gradualmente atenuados en un pico de 0,1–0,4 mm, recto, generalmente liso, truncado. Aquenios 1,6–2,6 × 1–1,4 mm, de contorno elíptico u obovado, generalmente pardos. [details]
Description Rhizomes brown or black, scaly. Culms 4–20 cm. Leaf blades channeled, tips soon becoming brown and dry, 2–12 cm × 1–3 mm. Spike with 3–15 pistillate flowers, 8–20 × 1.5–4 mm. Pistillate scales brown, margins hyaline, midvein paler, circular-ovate 2.5–4 × 1.4–2.6 mm, apex obtuse, often concealing perigynia. Staminate scales brown, margins hyaline, midvein paler, oblong-lanceolate to obovate, 2.5–3.5 × 1.4–2 mm, apex acute or obtuse. Perigynia 2.5–4 × 1–2 mm. Achenes oblong-obovoid, 2.2–2.5 × 1.5 mm. 2n = 52. [details]
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Fl. Pedem. ii. 264. t. 92. f. 1. 1785 to Fl. Pedem. 2: 264 (1785), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be found in [details]
Translation Rhizome with long internodes, sometimes forming loose tufts. Stems (3.5)5–16(20) cm, trigonous with sharp angles, scabrid on the upper part. Leaves (0.9)1.5–2.5(3) mm wide, shorter than the stems, flat or channelled, rough along the margins toward the apex; ligule up to 1.5 mm, with an obtuse or rounded apex; anteligule absent; basal sheaths scale-like, entire, brown. Lower bract setaceous, enclosing a single utricle. Spike 0.8–2.2 cm, oblong, with (2)4–8(15) female flowers. Glumes broadly ovate to suborbicular, obtuse, brown, with a broad scarious margin, longer than the utricles. Utricles (2.3)2.5–4 × 1–1.6(1.8) mm, broadly elliptic to obovate in outline, trigonous, with weakly prominent nerves, suberect, greenish or brownish, abruptly narrowed or gradually attenuated into a straight beak 0.1–0.4 mm long, generally smooth and truncate. Achenes 1.6–2.6 × 1–1.4 mm, elliptic to obovate in outline, generally brown. [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | カラフトイワスゲ | [details] |
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Edritria rupestris (All.) Raf.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Caricinella rupestris (All.) St.-Lag.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (507 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carex rupestris)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Caricinella rupestris (All.) St.-Lag.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Edritria rupestris (All.) Raf.)
To Photos of Cyperaceae by Hoshino Labo. from Japan
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Caricinella rupestris (All.) St.-Lag.)
To Plants of the World Online
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Edritria rupestris (All.) Raf.)
To the Natural History Museum, London (Carex rupestris Bellardi ex All. BM001067118 type 1)
To the Natural History Museum, London (Carex rupestris Bellardi ex All. BM001067119 type 1)
To The Plant List (from synonym Carex rupestris var. rupestris)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Caricinella rupestris (All.) St.-Lag.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (507 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carex rupestris)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Caricinella rupestris (All.) St.-Lag.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Edritria rupestris (All.) Raf.)
To Photos of Cyperaceae by Hoshino Labo. from Japan
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Caricinella rupestris (All.) St.-Lag.)
To Plants of the World Online
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Edritria rupestris (All.) Raf.)
To the Natural History Museum, London (Carex rupestris Bellardi ex All. BM001067118 type 1)
To the Natural History Museum, London (Carex rupestris Bellardi ex All. BM001067119 type 1)
To The Plant List (from synonym Carex rupestris var. rupestris)
From editor or global species database
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