Cyperaceae taxon details
Carex pendula Huds.
1677927 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1677927)
accepted
Species
Carex maxima Scop. · unaccepted
Carex pendula f. pallida Asch. & Graebn. · unaccepted
Carex tenuirostrata X.F.Jin, S.H.Jin & D.F.Wu · unaccepted
Manochlaenia pendula (Huds.) Fedde & J.Schust. · unaccepted
Trasus pendulus (Huds.) Gray · unaccepted
Trasus pendulus var. androgynus Gray · unaccepted
- Forma Carex pendula f. pallida Asch. & Graebn. accepted as Carex pendula Huds.
- Subspecies Carex pendula subsp. agastachys (L.f.) Ljungstrand accepted as Carex agastachys L.f.
- Subspecies Carex pendula subsp. welwitschii (Boiss. ex Steud.) K.Richt. accepted as Carex laevigata Sm.
- Variety Carex pendula var. angustifolia (Albov) Kük. accepted as Carex agastachys L.f.
- Variety Carex pendula var. myosuroides Boott accepted as Carex sequeirae Míguez, Jim.Mejías, Ben.Benítez & Martín-Bravo
terrestrial
Hudson, W. (1762). Flora anglica; exhibens plantas per regnum angliae sponte crescentes, distributas secundum systema sexuale: cum differentiis specierum, synonymis auctorum, nominibus incolarum, solo locorum, tempore florendi, ofììcinalibus pharmacopoeorum. pp. [i]-viii, [1- 8], 1-506, [1-22, ind.]. Londini [London]: Impensis auctoris: Prostant venales apud J. Nourse in the Strand, et C. Moran in Covent-Garden., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52504644
page(s): 352 [details]
page(s): 352 [details]
Type locality contained in Great Britain
type locality contained in Great Britain [details]
Description Rhizomes short; shoots in tufts often up to 70 cm across; roots up to 3 mm thick, red-brown; scales red-brown, persistent...
Description Densamente cespitosa, con rizoma muy robusto. Tallos fértiles (40)60–150(230) cm, lisos o un poco ásperos hacia el...
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Fl. Angl. (Hudson) 352; ed. 2, 411. 1762 to Fl. Angl. : 352 (1762),...
Description Rhizomes short; shoots in tufts often up to 70 cm across; roots up to 3 mm thick, red-brown; scales red-brown, persistent or becoming fibrous. Stems 60–230(–300) cm, trigonous. Leaves 20–120 cm × 12–20 mm, rigid, thin, keeled, ± flat, abruptly tapering to a blunt point, with margins rough, yellow-green above, matt-glaucous beneath, with up to 69 thin, close-packed, inconspicuous veins (T. O’Mahony pers. comm.), red-brown on dying, often overwintering; hypostomous; sheaths red-brown, persistent, with inner face hyaline only at concave apex; ligule 40–80 mm long, acute, with free margin < 1 mm wide. Inflorescence c. 1/3 to 1/2 length of stem; bracts leaf-like, ± equalling or slightly shorter than inflorescence. Male spikes 1–2, 6–10 cm; male glumes 6–8 mm, lanceolate, brownish-hyaline; apex acuminate. Female spikes 4–5, ± contiguous, lowest often distant, 7–16 cm, cylindric, erect at first, becoming pendent; peduncles rough, ensheathed, with lower half as long as spike; female glumes 2–2.5 mm, ovate, red-brown with pale midrib; apex acute or acuminate. Utricles 3–3.5 mm, broadly ellipsoid or ovoid, trigonous, ± glaucous-green, becoming brown; beak c. 0.3 mm, truncate; stigmas 3; nut obovoid, trigonous. [details]
Description Densamente cespitosa, con rizoma muy robusto. Tallos fértiles (40)60–150(230) cm, lisos o un poco ásperos hacia el...
Description Densamente cespitosa, con rizoma muy robusto. Tallos fértiles (40)60–150(230) cm, lisos o un poco ásperos hacia el ápice, agudamente trígonos. Hojas 8–16(19) mm de anchura, de menor longitud que los tallos, plegadas, muy ásperas en los bordes, ± rígidas, envés algo glauco; lígula hasta 7,5 mm, de ápice agudo o subagudo; sin antelígula; vainas basales escuamiformes, de color pardo oscuro, pardo púrpura oscuro o rojizo, enteras. Bráctea inferior folíacea, de mayor longitud que la inflorescencia, largamente envainante. Espiga masculina solitaria, raramente 2, de 80–160 mm, cilíndrica; espigas femeninas (2)3–5(7), de (60)100–210 mm, cilíndricas, muy densas, aproximadas, colgantes o erectas; la superior en ocasiones andrógina o excepcionalmente todas andróginas, muy largamente pedunculadas, colgantes. Glumas masculinas lineares, oblongas o estrechamente obovadas, agudas, pardas; glumas femeninas estrechamente obovadas, aristadas o mucronadas, generalmente de longitud menor que los utrículos, de color pardo-rojizo oscuro, sin margen escarioso. Utrículos (2,3)2,8–3,2 × 1–1,3 mm, erecto-patentes o patentes, ovoides, trígonos, verdes o parduscos, con los nervios prominentemente punteados de rojo, con solo 2 nervios prominentes, aunque en ocasiones se hace visible alguno más, bruscamente estrechados en un pico de 0,4–0,5 mm, truncado con los bordes rectos, liso. Aquenios 1,5(1,6)–1,8 × 0,8–1 mm, de contorno oval, trígonos, pardos, con la base del estilo persistente en forma de una corta columna. 2n = 78. [details]
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Fl. Angl. (Hudson) 352; ed. 2, 411. 1762 to Fl. Angl. : 352 (1762),...
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Fl. Angl. (Hudson) 352; ed. 2, 411. 1762 to Fl. Angl. : 352 (1762), 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 pendula Huds.. Accessed at: https://cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1677927 on 2026-05-31
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Nomenclature
original description
Hudson, W. (1762). Flora anglica; exhibens plantas per regnum angliae sponte crescentes, distributas secundum systema sexuale: cum differentiis specierum, synonymis auctorum, nominibus incolarum, solo locorum, tempore florendi, ofììcinalibus pharmacopoeorum. pp. [i]-viii, [1- 8], 1-506, [1-22, ind.]. Londini [London]: Impensis auctoris: Prostant venales apud J. Nourse in the Strand, et C. Moran in Covent-Garden., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52504644
page(s): 352 [details]
original description (of Carex maxima Scop.) Scopoli, G. A. (1771). Carex maxima. <em>Flora Carniolica : exhibens plantas Carnioliae indigenas et distributas in classes, genera, species, varietates, ordine Linnaeano.</em> , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58202516 [details]
basis of record Plants of the World Online (POWO). , available online at https://powo.science.kew.org/ [details]
page(s): 352 [details]
original description (of Carex maxima Scop.) Scopoli, G. A. (1771). Carex maxima. <em>Flora Carniolica : exhibens plantas Carnioliae indigenas et distributas in classes, genera, species, varietates, ordine Linnaeano.</em> , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58202516 [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 Jiménez-Mejías, P.; Míguez, M.; Spencer, M. A.; Jarvis, C. E.; Martín-Bravo, S. (2017). Typification of 18th Century names in <i>Carex</i> sect. <i>Rhynchocystis</i> (Cyperaceae): <i>Carex pendula</i> and allies. <em>TAXON.</em> 66(4): 973-975., available online at https://doi.org/10.12705/664.12 [details]
taxonomy source Míguez, M.; Jiménez-Mejías, P.; Benítez-Benítez, C.; Schaefer, H.; Martín-Bravo, S. (2021). Systematics of the Giant Sedges of <i>Carex</i> Sect. <i>Rhynchocystis</i> (Cyperaceae) in Macaronesia with Description of Two New Species. <em>Systematic Botany.</em> 46(2): 304-320., available online at https://doi.org/10.1600/036364421x16231782047442 [details] Available for editors [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 Míguez, M.; Martín-Bravo, S.; Jiménez-Mejías, P. (2018). Reconciling morphology and phylogeny allows an integrative taxonomic revision of the giant sedges of Carex section Rhynchocystis (Cyperaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 188(1): 34-58., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/BOTLINNEAN/BOY040 [details]
taxonomy source Muñoz-Schüler, P.; García-Moro, P.; Márquez-Corro, J. I.; Penneckamp, D.; Sanz-Arnal, M.; Martín-Bravo, S.; Jiménez-Mejías, P. (2023). The genus Carex (Cyperaceae) in Chile: a general update of its knowledge, with an identification key [El género Carex (Cyperaceae) en Chile: una actualización general de su conocimiento, con una clave de identificación]. Gayana - Botanica, 80(2): 103-132., available online at https://doi.org/10.4067/S0717-66432023000200103 [details] Available for editors [request]
taxonomy source Martín-Bravo, S.; Benítez-Benítez, C.; Buira, A.; García-Moro, P.; Gutiérrez, L.; Marco-Rosado, N.; Morales-Alonso, A.; Míguez, M.; Salazar-Mendías, C.; Sanz-Arnal, M.; Jiménez-Mejías, P. (2023). Chorological news for Carex (Cyperaceae) in the Iberian Peninsula. <em>Anales de Biología.</em> (45): 53-59., available online at https://doi.org/10.6018/analesbio.45.06 [details]
[request]taxonomy source Jiménez-Mejías, P.; Míguez, M.; Spencer, M. A.; Jarvis, C. E.; Martín-Bravo, S. (2017). Typification of 18th Century names in <i>Carex</i> sect. <i>Rhynchocystis</i> (Cyperaceae): <i>Carex pendula</i> and allies. <em>TAXON.</em> 66(4): 973-975., available online at https://doi.org/10.12705/664.12 [details]
taxonomy source Míguez, M.; Jiménez-Mejías, P.; Benítez-Benítez, C.; Schaefer, H.; Martín-Bravo, S. (2021). Systematics of the Giant Sedges of <i>Carex</i> Sect. <i>Rhynchocystis</i> (Cyperaceae) in Macaronesia with Description of Two New Species. <em>Systematic Botany.</em> 46(2): 304-320., available online at https://doi.org/10.1600/036364421x16231782047442 [details] Available for editors
[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 Míguez, M.; Martín-Bravo, S.; Jiménez-Mejías, P. (2018). Reconciling morphology and phylogeny allows an integrative taxonomic revision of the giant sedges of Carex section Rhynchocystis (Cyperaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 188(1): 34-58., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/BOTLINNEAN/BOY040 [details]
taxonomy source Muñoz-Schüler, P.; García-Moro, P.; Márquez-Corro, J. I.; Penneckamp, D.; Sanz-Arnal, M.; Martín-Bravo, S.; Jiménez-Mejías, P. (2023). The genus Carex (Cyperaceae) in Chile: a general update of its knowledge, with an identification key [El género Carex (Cyperaceae) en Chile: una actualización general de su conocimiento, con una clave de identificación]. Gayana - Botanica, 80(2): 103-132., available online at https://doi.org/10.4067/S0717-66432023000200103 [details] Available for editors
[request]taxonomy source Martín-Bravo, S.; Benítez-Benítez, C.; Buira, A.; García-Moro, P.; Gutiérrez, L.; Marco-Rosado, N.; Morales-Alonso, A.; Míguez, M.; Salazar-Mendías, C.; Sanz-Arnal, M.; Jiménez-Mejías, P. (2023). Chorological news for Carex (Cyperaceae) in the Iberian Peninsula. <em>Anales de Biología.</em> (45): 53-59., available online at https://doi.org/10.6018/analesbio.45.06 [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 [request]
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Epitype UPOS 5004, geounit Great Britain [details]
From editor or global species database
Description Rhizomes short; shoots in tufts often up to 70 cm across; roots up to 3 mm thick, red-brown; scales red-brown, persistent or becoming fibrous. Stems 60–230(–300) cm, trigonous. Leaves 20–120 cm × 12–20 mm, rigid, thin, keeled, ± flat, abruptly tapering to a blunt point, with margins rough, yellow-green above, matt-glaucous beneath, with up to 69 thin, close-packed, inconspicuous veins (T. O’Mahony pers. comm.), red-brown on dying, often overwintering; hypostomous; sheaths red-brown, persistent, with inner face hyaline only at concave apex; ligule 40–80 mm long, acute, with free margin < 1 mm wide. Inflorescence c. 1/3 to 1/2 length of stem; bracts leaf-like, ± equalling or slightly shorter than inflorescence. Male spikes 1–2, 6–10 cm; male glumes 6–8 mm, lanceolate, brownish-hyaline; apex acuminate. Female spikes 4–5, ± contiguous, lowest often distant, 7–16 cm, cylindric, erect at first, becoming pendent; peduncles rough, ensheathed, with lower half as long as spike; female glumes 2–2.5 mm, ovate, red-brown with pale midrib; apex acute or acuminate. Utricles 3–3.5 mm, broadly ellipsoid or ovoid, trigonous, ± glaucous-green, becoming brown; beak c. 0.3 mm, truncate; stigmas 3; nut obovoid, trigonous. [details]Description Densamente cespitosa, con rizoma muy robusto. Tallos fértiles (40)60–150(230) cm, lisos o un poco ásperos hacia el ápice, agudamente trígonos. Hojas 8–16(19) mm de anchura, de menor longitud que los tallos, plegadas, muy ásperas en los bordes, ± rígidas, envés algo glauco; lígula hasta 7,5 mm, de ápice agudo o subagudo; sin antelígula; vainas basales escuamiformes, de color pardo oscuro, pardo púrpura oscuro o rojizo, enteras. Bráctea inferior folíacea, de mayor longitud que la inflorescencia, largamente envainante. Espiga masculina solitaria, raramente 2, de 80–160 mm, cilíndrica; espigas femeninas (2)3–5(7), de (60)100–210 mm, cilíndricas, muy densas, aproximadas, colgantes o erectas; la superior en ocasiones andrógina o excepcionalmente todas andróginas, muy largamente pedunculadas, colgantes. Glumas masculinas lineares, oblongas o estrechamente obovadas, agudas, pardas; glumas femeninas estrechamente obovadas, aristadas o mucronadas, generalmente de longitud menor que los utrículos, de color pardo-rojizo oscuro, sin margen escarioso. Utrículos (2,3)2,8–3,2 × 1–1,3 mm, erecto-patentes o patentes, ovoides, trígonos, verdes o parduscos, con los nervios prominentemente punteados de rojo, con solo 2 nervios prominentes, aunque en ocasiones se hace visible alguno más, bruscamente estrechados en un pico de 0,4–0,5 mm, truncado con los bordes rectos, liso. Aquenios 1,5(1,6)–1,8 × 0,8–1 mm, de contorno oval, trígonos, pardos, con la base del estilo persistente en forma de una corta columna. 2n = 78. [details]
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Fl. Angl. (Hudson) 352; ed. 2, 411. 1762 to Fl. Angl. : 352 (1762), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be found in [details]
Translation Densely caespitose, with a very robust rhizome. Fertile stems (40)60–150(230) cm tall, smooth or slightly rough towards the apex, sharply trigonous. Leaves 8–16(19) mm wide, shorter than the stems, folded, very rough along the margins, ± rigid, with the abaxial surface slightly glaucous; ligule up to 7.5 mm, with an acute or subacute apex; without antiligule; basal sheaths scale-like, dark brown, dark purplish-brown or reddish, entire. Lower bract foliaceous, longer than the inflorescence, long-sheathing. Male spike solitary, rarely 2, 80–160 mm long, cylindrical; female spikes (2)3–5(7), (60)100–210 mm long, cylindrical, very dense, approximate, pendulous or erect; the upper sometimes androgynous, or exceptionally all androgynous, very long-pedunculate, pendulous. Male glumes linear, oblong or narrowly obovate, acute, brown; female glumes narrowly obovate, aristate or mucronate, generally shorter than the utricles, dark reddish-brown, without a scarious margin. Utricles (2.3)2.8–3.2 × 1–1.3 mm, erect-patent or patent, ovoid, trigonous, green or brownish, with the nerves conspicuously dotted red, with only 2 nerves strongly developed, although occasionally additional ones may be visible, abruptly narrowed into a beak 0.4–0.5 mm long, truncate with straight margins, smooth. Achenes 1.5(1.6)–1.8 × 0.8–1 mm, oval in outline, trigonous, brown, with the style base persistent in the form of a short column. 2n = 78. [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Trasus pendulus (Huds.) Gray)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (300 publications) (from synonym Carex maxima Scop.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (629 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carex pendula)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carex tenuirostrata) (from synonym Carex tenuirostrata X.F.Jin, S.H.Jin & D.F.Wu)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Carex tenuirostrata X.F.Jin, S.H.Jin & D.F.Wu)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Trasus pendulus var. androgynus Gray)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex maxima Scop.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex tenuirostrata X.F.Jin, S.H.Jin & D.F.Wu)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Trasus pendulus (Huds.) Gray)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Manochlaenia pendula (Huds.) Fedde & J.Schust.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To Plants of the World Online
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Manochlaenia pendula (Huds.) Fedde & J.Schust.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Trasus pendulus (Huds.) Gray)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Trasus pendulus var. androgynus Gray)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex tenuirostrata X.F.Jin, S.H.Jin & D.F.Wu)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex maxima Scop.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex pendula f. pallida Asch. & Graebn.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (300 publications) (from synonym Carex maxima Scop.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (629 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carex pendula)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carex tenuirostrata) (from synonym Carex tenuirostrata X.F.Jin, S.H.Jin & D.F.Wu)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Carex tenuirostrata X.F.Jin, S.H.Jin & D.F.Wu)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Trasus pendulus var. androgynus Gray)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex maxima Scop.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex tenuirostrata X.F.Jin, S.H.Jin & D.F.Wu)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Trasus pendulus (Huds.) Gray)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Manochlaenia pendula (Huds.) Fedde & J.Schust.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To Plants of the World Online
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Manochlaenia pendula (Huds.) Fedde & J.Schust.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Trasus pendulus (Huds.) Gray)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Trasus pendulus var. androgynus Gray)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex tenuirostrata X.F.Jin, S.H.Jin & D.F.Wu)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex maxima Scop.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex pendula f. pallida Asch. & Graebn.)
