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Cyperaceae taxon details

Carex maritima Gunnerus

To LE Herbarium (Carex orthocaula LE01006923 holotype 1)
To LE Herbarium (Carex orthocaula LE01006923 holotype 1)

1677629  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1677629)

  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. Vignea (Subgenus)
  14. Carex sect. DistichaClade (Section)
  15. Carex maritima (Species)
accepted
Species
Carex banata Sm. · unaccepted
Carex incurva Lightf. · unaccepted
Carex incurva var. setina Christ · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling (Erroneous citation of authorship)
Carex juncifolia All. · unaccepted

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Gunnerus, J. E. (1772). Flora Norvegica, observationibus praesertim oeconomicis panosque norvegici locupletata. Pars posterior. , available online at https://books.google.es/books?id=5gqR6tffgVYC&hl=es&pg=PA106#v=onepage&q&f=false
page(s): 131 [details] 
Description Rhizomes far-creeping, much branched; shoots loosely tufted or solitary and terminal on short branches of rhizome; roots pale...  
Description Rhizomes far-creeping, much branched; shoots loosely tufted or solitary and terminal on short branches of rhizome; roots pale red-brown, with numerous branched laterals; scales dark brown, soon becoming fibrous. Stems 1–18 cm, solid, often curved, terete, striate. Leaves 3–15 cm × 0.5–2 mm, thick, stiff, channelled, often inrolled, tapering gradually to a ± trigonous point, mid green, often overwintering; hypostomous; sheaths hyaline or brown, thin, ribbed, persistent, with inner face with thin hyaline membranous strip only (see Figure D); apex straight; ligule 0.5–1 mm, rounded. Inflorescence a compact ovoid or subglobose head, 0.5–1.5 cm, on initially erect stem (but, when mature, stems bend down to soil level and the heads resemble rabbit droppings); bracts glumaceous or 0. Spikes 4–8, clustered, 3–6 mm, few-flowered, upper male, often hidden, lower female with occasional male at top. Male glumes c. 4 mm, elliptic, dark orange-brown; apex ± acute. Female glumes 3–4 mm, broadly ovate, red-brown (often bleached), with midrib paler and margins narrowly hyaline; apex ± acute or obtuse and mucronate. Utricles 4–4.5 mm, ovoid to subglobose, faintly ribbed, brown, almost black on maturity; beak 0.5–1 mm, bifid; stigmas 2, often persistent; nut orbicular, biconvex. [details]

Description Plants colonial. Culms usually curved, bluntly trigonous, 1–25(–44) cm smooth-angled distally. Leaves: basal sheaths...  
Description Plants colonial. Culms usually curved, bluntly trigonous, 1–25(–44) cm smooth-angled distally. Leaves: basal sheaths brown to dark brown; ligules 0.3–1.2 mm; blades involute, usually ± equaling culms, 0.5–2 mm wide. Inflorescences 0.5–1.6(–2) cm; spikes ca. (1–)3–7, essentially indistinguishable in dense ovoid to hemispheric head. Pistillate scales pale brown to dark brown, usually with broad whitish hyaline margins, broadly ovate to nearly orbicular, shorter than perigynia, apex obtuse to acute, body shiny, ± translucent. Anthers 1.1–2 mm. Perigynia pale yellowish brown proximally, darker brown on beak and distally, essentially veinless to finely 3–12-veined abaxially, essentially veinless adaxially, ± inflated, ovate to broadly ovate, (3–)3.2–5.1 × (1.4–)1.6–2.3(–2.7) mm, papery or leathery, dull to satiny; stipe 0.2–0.7 mm; beak 0.5–1 mm, scabrous-margined or, occasionally, smooth.
 [details]

Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Fl. Norveg. 2: 131 1772 to Fl. Norveg. 2: 131 (1776), information...  
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Fl. Norveg. 2: 131 1772 to Fl. Norveg. 2: 131 (1776), 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 maritima Gunnerus. Accessed at: https://cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1677629 on 2026-06-12
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Nomenclature

original description Gunnerus, J. E. (1772). Flora Norvegica, observationibus praesertim oeconomicis panosque norvegici locupletata. Pars posterior. , available online at https://books.google.es/books?id=5gqR6tffgVYC&hl=es&pg=PA106#v=onepage&q&f=false
page(s): 131 [details] 

original description (of Carex incurva var. setina Christ ex Scheutz) Scheutz, N. J. W. (1887). Plantae Vasculares Jeniseenses: Inter Krasnojarsk Urbem et Ostium Jenisei Fluminis Hactenus Lectae. <em>Kungl. Svenska vetenskapsakademiens handlingar.</em> 22(10): 1-210., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38631079#page/237/mode/1up
page(s): 174 [details] 

original description (of Carex leveillei Husnot) Husnot, T. (1905). Cypéracées. 83 pp. Athis: France., available online at https://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/viewer/11684/?offset=#page=1&viewer=picture&o=bookmark&n=0&q=
page(s): 12 [details] OpenAccess publication

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 Jiménez-Mejías, P.; Alegría-Olivera, J. J.; Beltrán, H. W.; Cano, A.; Granda-Paucar, A.; Fonkén, M. S. M.; Riva-Regalado, S.; Ruthsatz, B.; Escudero, M. (2020). Chorological and nomenclatural notes on peruvian carex (Cyperaceae) [Notas corológicas y nomenclaturales sobre carex (Cyperaceae) del perú]. Caldasia, 42(1): 63-69., available online at https://doi.org/10.15446/caldasia.v42n1.76771 [details] 

Other

subsequent type designation Jørgensen, P. M. (2012). New names in Gunnerus's <i>Flora</i> <i>Norvegica</i>, and their typification. <em>TAXON.</em> 61(5): 1088-1095., available online at https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.615013 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Description Rhizomes far-creeping, much branched; shoots loosely tufted or solitary and terminal on short branches of rhizome; roots pale red-brown, with numerous branched laterals; scales dark brown, soon becoming fibrous. Stems 1–18 cm, solid, often curved, terete, striate. Leaves 3–15 cm × 0.5–2 mm, thick, stiff, channelled, often inrolled, tapering gradually to a ± trigonous point, mid green, often overwintering; hypostomous; sheaths hyaline or brown, thin, ribbed, persistent, with inner face with thin hyaline membranous strip only (see Figure D); apex straight; ligule 0.5–1 mm, rounded. Inflorescence a compact ovoid or subglobose head, 0.5–1.5 cm, on initially erect stem (but, when mature, stems bend down to soil level and the heads resemble rabbit droppings); bracts glumaceous or 0. Spikes 4–8, clustered, 3–6 mm, few-flowered, upper male, often hidden, lower female with occasional male at top. Male glumes c. 4 mm, elliptic, dark orange-brown; apex ± acute. Female glumes 3–4 mm, broadly ovate, red-brown (often bleached), with midrib paler and margins narrowly hyaline; apex ± acute or obtuse and mucronate. Utricles 4–4.5 mm, ovoid to subglobose, faintly ribbed, brown, almost black on maturity; beak 0.5–1 mm, bifid; stigmas 2, often persistent; nut orbicular, biconvex. [details]

Description Plants colonial. Culms usually curved, bluntly trigonous, 1–25(–44) cm smooth-angled distally. Leaves: basal sheaths brown to dark brown; ligules 0.3–1.2 mm; blades involute, usually ± equaling culms, 0.5–2 mm wide. Inflorescences 0.5–1.6(–2) cm; spikes ca. (1–)3–7, essentially indistinguishable in dense ovoid to hemispheric head. Pistillate scales pale brown to dark brown, usually with broad whitish hyaline margins, broadly ovate to nearly orbicular, shorter than perigynia, apex obtuse to acute, body shiny, ± translucent. Anthers 1.1–2 mm. Perigynia pale yellowish brown proximally, darker brown on beak and distally, essentially veinless to finely 3–12-veined abaxially, essentially veinless adaxially, ± inflated, ovate to broadly ovate, (3–)3.2–5.1 × (1.4–)1.6–2.3(–2.7) mm, papery or leathery, dull to satiny; stipe 0.2–0.7 mm; beak 0.5–1 mm, scabrous-margined or, occasionally, smooth.
 [details]

Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Fl. Norveg. 2: 131 1772 to Fl. Norveg. 2: 131 (1776), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be found in [details]
    Definitions

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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Olotrema juncifolia (All.) Raf.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Carex jucunda V.I.Krecz.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Carex transmarina V.I.Krecz.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Carex incurva var. chartacea Kük.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Carex incurva var. inflata Simmons)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) (from synonym Vignea incurva (Lightf.) Rchb.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Carex banata Sm.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Carex maritima var. setina (Christ) Fernald)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (207 publications) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Caricina incurva (Lightf.) St.-Lag.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (389 publications) (from synonym Carex stenophylla L.Thienem. ex Boott)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (390 publications) (from synonym Carex incurva Lightf.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Carex amphilogos K.Koch)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Carex setina (Christ) V.I.Krecz.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Vignea maritima (Gunnerus) Rchb.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (78 publications) (from synonym Carex juncifolia All.)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carex maritima) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carex stenophylla) (from synonym Carex stenophylla L.Thienem. ex Boott)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex stenophylla L.Thienem. ex Boott)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Vignea maritima subsp. setina (Christ) Soják)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex incurva var. pratensis Hartm.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex incurva var. setina Christ)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex maritima var. setina (Christ) Fernald)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex incurva subsp. leveillei Husn.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex maritima subsp. setina (Christ) T.V.Egorova)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex psychroluta V.I.Krecz.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex juncifolia All.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex setina (Christ) V.I.Krecz.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex jucunda V.I.Krecz.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex orthocaula V.I.Krecz.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Caricina incurva (Lightf.) St.-Lag.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex leveillei Husnot)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) 
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Olotrema juncifolia (All.) Raf.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Vignea incurva (Lightf.) Rchb.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Rhaptocalymna incurva (Lightf.) Fedde & J.Schust.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Vignea maritima (Gunnerus) Rchb.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex amphilogos K.Koch)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex banata Sm.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex incurva Lightf.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex bucculenta V.I.Krecz.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex camptotropa V.I.Krecz.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex incurva var. inflata Simmons)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex maritima subsp. yukonensis A.E.Porsild)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex incurva var. chartacea Kük.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex incurva var. erecta Lang)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex maritima f. inflata (Simmons) Polunin)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex incurva f. erecta O.Lang)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex incurva f. pallens Kük.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex transmarina V.I.Krecz.)
To LE Herbarium (Carex orthocaula LE01006923 holotype 1) (from synonym Carex orthocaula V.I.Krecz.)
To LE Herbarium (Carex orthocaula LE01006924 isotype 1) (from synonym Carex orthocaula V.I.Krecz.)
To New York Botanical Garden Steere Herbarium (Carex_incurva_inflata_NY11162_type_1) (from synonym Carex incurva var. inflata Simmons)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex incurva var. erecta Lang)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex incurva var. inflata Simmons)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex maritima var. setina (Christ) Fernald)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex incurva var. setina Christ)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex incurva var. pratensis Hartm.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex incurva var. chartacea Kük.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex maritima f. inflata (Simmons) Polunin)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex incurva f. erecta O.Lang)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex incurva f. pallens Kük.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex psychroluta V.I.Krecz.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex jucunda V.I.Krecz.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex juncifolia All.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex stenophylla L.Thienem. ex Boott)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex setina (Christ) V.I.Krecz.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex orthocaula V.I.Krecz.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex maritima subsp. yukonensis A.E.Porsild)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex maritima subsp. setina (Christ) T.V.Egorova)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex incurva subsp. leveillei Husn.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Vignea maritima subsp. setina (Christ) Soják)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex transmarina V.I.Krecz.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex incurva Lightf.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex camptotropa V.I.Krecz.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex amphilogos K.Koch)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex banata Sm.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex bucculenta V.I.Krecz.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Vignea incurva (Lightf.) Rchb.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Rhaptocalymna incurva (Lightf.) Fedde & J.Schust.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Vignea maritima (Gunnerus) Rchb.)
To Plants of the World Online 
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Caricina incurva (Lightf.) St.-Lag.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Olotrema juncifolia (All.) Raf.)
To the Natural History Museum, London (Carex incurva Lightf. BM000959137 type 1) (from synonym Carex incurva Lightf.)
To The Plant List (from synonym Carex maritima var. maritima)
From editor or global species database
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