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Cyperaceae taxon details

Carex panicea L.

To Moscow University Herbarium (Carex panicea var. praestabilis MW0591581 isolectotype 1)
To Moscow University Herbarium (Carex panicea var. praestabilis MW0591581 isolectotype 1)

1677885  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1677885)

  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. Paniceae (Section)
  15. Carex panicea (Species)
accepted
Species
Carex pelia O.Lang · unaccepted

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  1. Forma Carex panicea f. binata Lackow. ex Kük. accepted as Carex panicea L.
  2. Forma Carex panicea f. conferta N.H.Nilsson ex Neuman accepted as Carex panicea L.
  3. Forma Carex panicea f. ferruginea Neuman accepted as Carex panicea L.
  4. Forma Carex panicea f. gracilis Lange accepted as Carex panicea L.
  5. Forma Carex panicea f. humilis Meinsh. accepted as Carex panicea L.
  6. Forma Carex panicea f. latifolia Waisb. accepted as Carex panicea L.
  7. Forma Carex panicea f. longipedunculata Asch. & Graebn. accepted as Carex panicea L.
  8. Forma Carex panicea f. melanocarpa Waisb. accepted as Carex panicea L.
  9. Forma Carex panicea f. microcarpa Sond. ex W.D.J.Koch accepted as Carex panicea L.
  10. Forma Carex panicea f. nigra Kuntze accepted as Carex panicea L.
  11. Forma Carex panicea f. pallida Blytt accepted as Carex panicea L.
  12. Forma Carex panicea f. refracta Peterm. accepted as Carex panicea L.
  13. Forma Carex panicea f. robusta Warnst. accepted as Carex panicea L.
  14. Forma Carex panicea f. tumidula Laest. accepted as Carex panicea L.
  15. Subspecies Carex panicea subsp. dalmatica Degen & B.Lengyel accepted as Carex panicea L.
  16. Subspecies Carex panicea subsp. pelia (O.Lang) Nyman accepted as Carex panicea L.
  17. Subspecies Carex panicea subsp. vaginata (Tausch) Rouy accepted as Carex vaginata Tausch
  18. Variety Carex panicea var. elatior Gaudin accepted as Carex panicea L.
  19. Variety Carex panicea var. gynobasica Merino accepted as Carex panicea L.
  20. Variety Carex panicea var. hercynica Láng accepted as Carex panicea L.
  21. Variety Carex panicea var. intermedia Meinsh. accepted as Carex panicea L.
  22. Variety Carex panicea var. microcarpa W.D.J.Koch accepted as Carex panicea L.
  23. Variety Carex panicea var. pauciflora Wahlenb. accepted as Carex vaginata var. vaginata
  24. Variety Carex panicea var. praestabilis Waisb. accepted as Carex panicea L.
  25. Variety Carex panicea var. rhizogyna Gaudin accepted as Carex panicea L.
  26. Variety Carex panicea var. sparsiflora Wahlenb. accepted as Carex vaginata var. vaginata
  27. Variety Carex panicea var. sublivida Hartm. ex Andersson accepted as Carex panicea L.
  28. Variety Carex panicea var. tumidula (Laest.) Andersson accepted as Carex panicea 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): 977 [details] 
Lectotype  LINN HL1100-63  
Lectotype LINN HL1100-63 [details]
Description Rizoma de entrenudos ± largos, a veces laxamente cespitosa. Tallos fértiles (5)20–40(50) cm, lisos, trígonos con los...  
Description Rizoma de entrenudos ± largos, a veces laxamente cespitosa. Tallos fértiles (5)20–40(50) cm, lisos, trígonos con los ángulos un poco agudos. Hojas (2,5)3–5(6) mm de anchura, de menor longitud que los tallos, planas, con el ápice de sección triangular, ásperas en los bordes y nervio medio del envés, algo rígidas; lígula hasta 2(3) mm, soldada al limbo, con cuyo haz se confunde; sin antelígula; vainas basales con limbo desarrollado, de color pardo claro, enteras o algo fibrosas. Bráctea inferior foliólacea, de menor longitud que la inflorescencia y mayor o menor que su espiga, con una vaina ± inflada. Espiga(s) masculina(s) 1(2), de 15–20(27) mm, estrechamente obovadas o fusiformes; espigas femeninas (1)2(3), de 10–20 mm, hasta de 30 mm cuando las flores inferiores están separadas del resto, cilíndricas, ± separadas, caducas y casi siempre pedunculadas, excepto ocasionalmente subbasilares, erectas. Glumas masculinas obovadas, obtusas, de color pardo-rojizo claro, con margen escarioso ancho salvo, a veces, en el ápice, donde suele ser más estrecho; glumas femeninas ancha-mente ovales, agudas, de longitud mucho menor que los utrículos, de color pardo-rojizo oscuro, con margen escarioso estrecho o sin él. Utrículos (2,7)3–4(4,7) × 1,6(2) mm, suberectos, ± obovados, con numerosos nervios, sutilmente papillosos, ± atenuados en un pico de casi nulo a 0,7 mm, generalmente curvado, de ápice truncado o cortamente bidentado, papilloso. Aquenios (1,8)2–2,5 × 0,9–1,2(1,5) mm, de contorno obovado o elíptico, trígonos, verdosos o parduscos. 2n = 32. [details]

Description Rhizomes shortly creeping, fleshy; shoots loosely tufted; roots pale grey- or purple-brown; scales grey-brown or colourless,...  
Description Rhizomes shortly creeping, fleshy; shoots loosely tufted; roots pale grey- or purple-brown; scales grey-brown or colourless, soon decaying. Stems 10–60 cm, often curved above, trigonous-subterete, striate, with basal leaves as long as the stem. Leaves up to 60 cm × 1.5–5 mm, rough at top, ± flat, tapering to a trigonous point, glaucous on both sides (in dense fen sometimes more yellow-green), with few, conspicuous, widely spaced veins on the abaxial side, pale straw-coloured on dying; hypostomous; sheaths white or pale pink-brown, ribbed, not loose, persistent but fibrous on decay, with inner face hyaline, soon decaying; apex straight; ligule 1.5–2 mm, obtuse, with free portion 0.3–0.5 mm. Inflorescence 1/6–1/4(–1/3) length of stem; bracts leaf-like, shorter than inflorescence, tightly sheathed; sheaths 10–15 mm long. Male spike 1, 10–22 mm; male glumes 3–4.5 mm, ovate-oblong to elliptic, purple-brown, with pale midrib and hyaline margin; apex ± obtuse. Female spikes 1–3, 10–20 mm, ± distant, few and lax-flowered, with rachis usually visible; female glumes 3–4 mm, broadly ovate, clasping utricle, purple or red-brown, with pale green midrib and green-hyaline margin; apex acute. Utricles 3–4 mm, broadly obovoid, inflated on adaxial side so that the apex points outwards; olive-green or ± purple-tinged; beak < 0.5 mm, truncate; stigmas 3; nut oblong-obovoid, trigonous. [details]

Description Plants colonial, long-rhizomatous. Culms (0.8–)14–75 cm, smooth distally. Leaves: proximal sheaths with blades, pale...  
Description Plants colonial, long-rhizomatous. Culms (0.8–)14–75 cm, smooth distally. Leaves: proximal sheaths with blades, pale brown, 3–6 mm thick; ligules 0.4–3.5(–8.5) mm, usually wider than long; leaf blades somewhat glaucous, flat, 5.5–33 cm × 1.4–4.7 mm, folded at bases, margins revolute, herbaceous. Inflorescences 3.2–21 cm, 1.7–3.5(–4.3) times as long as proximal bract; proximal bract (1.3–)2–9 cm, sheath 0.5–2.4 cm, blade 1.1–7.1 cm; pistillate spikes densely flowered, ovoid to cylindric, 0.8–2.9 cm × 4.5–7.5 mm; lateral spikes erect or ascending on stiff peduncles. Pistillate scales dark reddish purple with hyaline margins, green centers, apex obtuse, centers papillose. Perigynia ascending to spreading, yellowish green to brown, often suffused with reddish purple, broadly obovoid, 2.6–5.1 × 1.4–2.4 mm; beak minute, sharply bent. Achenes pale brown, 1.8–2.9 × 1.3–1.9 mm. 2n = 32. [details]

Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Sp. Pl. 2: 977. 1753 [1 May 1753] to Sp. Pl. : 977 (1753),...  
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Sp. Pl. 2: 977. 1753 [1 May 1753] to Sp. Pl. : 977 (1753), 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 panicea L.. Accessed at: https://www.cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1677885 on 2026-05-19
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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): 977 [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] 

taxonomy source Lu, Y.; Benítez‐Benítez, C.; Yano, O.; Ikeda, H.; Jung, S.; Kim, S.; Jiménez‐Mejías, P.; Jin, X. (2025). East Asia–eastern North America disjunction revisited: Possible westward colonization route via the Western Palearctic in <i>Carex</i> sect. <i>Paniceae</i> (Cyperaceae). <em>Journal of Systematics and Evolution.</em> 63(4): 974-987., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.13174 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Lectotype LINN HL1100-63 [details]
Syntype (of Carex panicea var. praestabilis Waisb.) MW 0591581, geounit Ukraine [details]
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Description Rizoma de entrenudos ± largos, a veces laxamente cespitosa. Tallos fértiles (5)20–40(50) cm, lisos, trígonos con los ángulos un poco agudos. Hojas (2,5)3–5(6) mm de anchura, de menor longitud que los tallos, planas, con el ápice de sección triangular, ásperas en los bordes y nervio medio del envés, algo rígidas; lígula hasta 2(3) mm, soldada al limbo, con cuyo haz se confunde; sin antelígula; vainas basales con limbo desarrollado, de color pardo claro, enteras o algo fibrosas. Bráctea inferior foliólacea, de menor longitud que la inflorescencia y mayor o menor que su espiga, con una vaina ± inflada. Espiga(s) masculina(s) 1(2), de 15–20(27) mm, estrechamente obovadas o fusiformes; espigas femeninas (1)2(3), de 10–20 mm, hasta de 30 mm cuando las flores inferiores están separadas del resto, cilíndricas, ± separadas, caducas y casi siempre pedunculadas, excepto ocasionalmente subbasilares, erectas. Glumas masculinas obovadas, obtusas, de color pardo-rojizo claro, con margen escarioso ancho salvo, a veces, en el ápice, donde suele ser más estrecho; glumas femeninas ancha-mente ovales, agudas, de longitud mucho menor que los utrículos, de color pardo-rojizo oscuro, con margen escarioso estrecho o sin él. Utrículos (2,7)3–4(4,7) × 1,6(2) mm, suberectos, ± obovados, con numerosos nervios, sutilmente papillosos, ± atenuados en un pico de casi nulo a 0,7 mm, generalmente curvado, de ápice truncado o cortamente bidentado, papilloso. Aquenios (1,8)2–2,5 × 0,9–1,2(1,5) mm, de contorno obovado o elíptico, trígonos, verdosos o parduscos. 2n = 32. [details]

Description Rhizomes shortly creeping, fleshy; shoots loosely tufted; roots pale grey- or purple-brown; scales grey-brown or colourless, soon decaying. Stems 10–60 cm, often curved above, trigonous-subterete, striate, with basal leaves as long as the stem. Leaves up to 60 cm × 1.5–5 mm, rough at top, ± flat, tapering to a trigonous point, glaucous on both sides (in dense fen sometimes more yellow-green), with few, conspicuous, widely spaced veins on the abaxial side, pale straw-coloured on dying; hypostomous; sheaths white or pale pink-brown, ribbed, not loose, persistent but fibrous on decay, with inner face hyaline, soon decaying; apex straight; ligule 1.5–2 mm, obtuse, with free portion 0.3–0.5 mm. Inflorescence 1/6–1/4(–1/3) length of stem; bracts leaf-like, shorter than inflorescence, tightly sheathed; sheaths 10–15 mm long. Male spike 1, 10–22 mm; male glumes 3–4.5 mm, ovate-oblong to elliptic, purple-brown, with pale midrib and hyaline margin; apex ± obtuse. Female spikes 1–3, 10–20 mm, ± distant, few and lax-flowered, with rachis usually visible; female glumes 3–4 mm, broadly ovate, clasping utricle, purple or red-brown, with pale green midrib and green-hyaline margin; apex acute. Utricles 3–4 mm, broadly obovoid, inflated on adaxial side so that the apex points outwards; olive-green or ± purple-tinged; beak < 0.5 mm, truncate; stigmas 3; nut oblong-obovoid, trigonous. [details]

Description Plants colonial, long-rhizomatous. Culms (0.8–)14–75 cm, smooth distally. Leaves: proximal sheaths with blades, pale brown, 3–6 mm thick; ligules 0.4–3.5(–8.5) mm, usually wider than long; leaf blades somewhat glaucous, flat, 5.5–33 cm × 1.4–4.7 mm, folded at bases, margins revolute, herbaceous. Inflorescences 3.2–21 cm, 1.7–3.5(–4.3) times as long as proximal bract; proximal bract (1.3–)2–9 cm, sheath 0.5–2.4 cm, blade 1.1–7.1 cm; pistillate spikes densely flowered, ovoid to cylindric, 0.8–2.9 cm × 4.5–7.5 mm; lateral spikes erect or ascending on stiff peduncles. Pistillate scales dark reddish purple with hyaline margins, green centers, apex obtuse, centers papillose. Perigynia ascending to spreading, yellowish green to brown, often suffused with reddish purple, broadly obovoid, 2.6–5.1 × 1.4–2.4 mm; beak minute, sharply bent. Achenes pale brown, 1.8–2.9 × 1.3–1.9 mm. 2n = 32. [details]

Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Sp. Pl. 2: 977. 1753 [1 May 1753] to Sp. Pl. : 977 (1753), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be found in [details]

Translation Rhizome with internodes ± long, sometimes forming a lax tussock. Fertile stems (5)20–40(50) cm tall, smooth, trigonous with slightly acute angles. Leaves (2.5)3–5(6) mm wide, shorter than the stems, flat, with a triangular cross-section at the apex, rough along the margins and the midrib on the abaxial surface, somewhat rigid; ligule up to 2(3) mm, fused to the blade and not distinguishable from its adaxial surface; without antiligule; basal sheaths with a developed blade, light brown in colour, entire or somewhat fibrous. Lowest bract foliaceous, shorter than the inflorescence and shorter or longer than its spike, with a ± inflated sheath. Male spike(s) 1(2), 15–20(27) mm long, narrowly obovoid or fusiform; female spikes (1)2(3), 10–20 mm long, up to 30 mm when the lower flowers are separated from the rest, cylindrical, ± separated, deciduous and almost always pedunculate, except occasionally subbasal, erect. Male glumes obovoid, obtuse, light reddish-brown, with a broad scarious margin except sometimes at the apex where it is usually narrower; female glumes broadly ovate, acute, much shorter than the utricles, dark reddish-brown, with a narrow scarious margin or lacking one. Utricles (2.7)3–4(4.7) × 1.6(2) mm, suberect, ± obovoid, with numerous nerves, subtly papillose, ± attenuated into a beak from nearly absent to 0.7 mm long, usually curved, with the apex truncate or shortly bidentate, papillose. Achenes (1.8)2–2.5 × 0.9–1.2(1.5) mm, obovoid or elliptic in outline, trigonous, greenish or brownish. 2n = 32. [details]
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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Carex efflata Laest. ex Trevir.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Trasus paniceus var. distachyos Gray)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Trasus paniceus (L.) Gray)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Carex sublivida Norrl.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Carex panicea var. tumidula (Laest.) Andersson)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Carex pelia O.Lang)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (819 publications) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carex panicea) 
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Trasus paniceus (L.) Gray)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) 
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex efflata Laest. ex Trevir.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex pelia O.Lang)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex panicea subsp. dalmatica Degen & B.Lengyel)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex panicea subsp. pelia (O.Lang) Nyman)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Trasus paniceus var. androgynus Gray)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex panicea var. intermedia Meinsh.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Trasus paniceus var. leersii Gray)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex sublivida Norrl.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Trasus paniceus var. distachyos Gray)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex panicea var. praestabilis Waisb.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex panicea var. sublivida Hartm. ex Andersson)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex panicea var. gynobasica Merino)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex panicea var. rhizogyna Gaudin)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex panicea var. elatior Gaudin)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex panicea var. hercynica Láng)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex panicea var. microcarpa W.D.J.Koch)
To Moscow University Herbarium (Carex panicea var. praestabilis MW0591581 isolectotype 1) (from synonym Carex panicea var. praestabilis Waisb.)
To New York Botanical Garden Steere Herbarium (Carex_pelia_NY11481_type_1) (from synonym Carex pelia O.Lang)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex sublivida Norrl.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex efflata Laest. ex Trevir.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex pelia O.Lang)
To Plants of the World Online 
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Trasus paniceus (L.) Gray)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Trasus paniceus var. distachyos Gray)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex panicea var. praestabilis Waisb.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex panicea var. intermedia Meinsh.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Trasus paniceus var. leersii Gray)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Trasus paniceus var. androgynus Gray)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex panicea subsp. pelia (O.Lang) Nyman)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex panicea subsp. dalmatica Degen & B.Lengyel)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex panicea var. sublivida Hartm. ex Andersson)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex panicea var. gynobasica Merino)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex panicea var. elatior Gaudin)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex panicea var. rhizogyna Gaudin)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex panicea f. binata Lackow. ex Kük.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex panicea f. conferta N.H.Nilsson ex Neuman)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex panicea f. ferruginea Neuman)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex panicea f. gracilis Lange)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex panicea f. humilis Meinsh.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex panicea f. latifolia Waisb.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex panicea f. longipedunculata Asch. & Graebn.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex panicea f. melanocarpa Waisb.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex panicea f. microcarpa Sond. ex W.D.J.Koch)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex panicea f. nigra Kuntze)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex panicea f. pallida Blytt)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex panicea f. refracta Peterm.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex panicea f. robusta Warnst.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex panicea f. tumidula Laest.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex panicea var. tumidula (Laest.) Andersson)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex panicea var. microcarpa W.D.J.Koch)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex panicea var. hercynica Láng)
To the Natural History Museum, London (Carex panicea L. BM001067076 type 1) 
To the Natural History Museum, London (Carex panicea L. BM001067077 type 1) 
From editor or global species database
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