Cyperaceae taxon details
Carex modesti M.Escudero, Martín-Bravo & Jim.Mejías
1676290 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1676290)
accepted
Species
terrestrial
Martín-Bravo, S.; Escudero, M.; Jiménez-Mejías, P. (2012). Carex modesti (Cyperaceae), a new species from southern Tanzania. <em>Blumea journal of plant taxonomy and plant geography.</em> 57(2): 143-146., available online at https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/nhn/blumea/2012/00000057/00000002/art00010#
page(s): 145 [details]
page(s): 145 [details]
Holotype NBCN WAG0112511, geounit Tanzania
Holotype NBCN WAG0112511, geounit Tanzania [details]
Altitude 2750 m
Description Robust rhizomatous, perennial herb. Rhizome creeping, with ± long internodes. Stems 50 – 90 cm, ± stout, trigonous,...
Distribution Southern Tanzania, Kitulo Plateau.
Etymology Etymology. This new taxon is dedicated to our PhD supervisor Dr. Modesto Luceño, who performed his PhD on the systematics...
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: ipni Update namepublishedIn from Blumea 57(2): 145. 2012 [19 Sep 2012] [epublished] to Blumea 57: 145...
Altitude 2750 m [details]
Description Robust rhizomatous, perennial herb. Rhizome creeping, with ± long internodes. Stems 50 – 90 cm, ± stout, trigonous,...
Description Robust rhizomatous, perennial herb. Rhizome creeping, with ± long internodes. Stems 50 – 90 cm, ± stout, trigonous, smooth, green to yellowish green, with dark purplish red spots. Leaves 15–35 cm by 5 –11 mm, plicate, with revolute margins, rigid, coriaceous, slightly scabrid on apical parts; sheaths brown, reddish brown to purplish red; ligule 3–6 mm, subacute; anteligule concave. Inflorescence 28 – 49 cm, lowest internode 8.5–21 cm and the second one 6.5 –12.5 cm. Lowest bract 13.5– 40 cm by 5 – 8 mm, shorter than the inflorescence, with revolute margins; sheath 5–7.5 cm long, the inner side dark purplish red. Spikes 7–13, heteromorphic to subheteromorphic, 1–3 upper male spikes, 0–2 androgynous spikes and 3–11 lower female spikes; terminal spike 2.5–8.5 cm by 3–12 mm, terete, sessile or with a peduncle up to 1.2 cm; female spikes, 4.5–12 cm by 7–12 mm, dense-flowered, terete, always arising solitary, peduncle up to 5.9 cm. Male glumes 5–7 by 0.9–1.6 mm, oblong-elliptic to oblong-obovate, dark purplish red with a narrow, straw-coloured midrib, mucronate, mucro up to 1 mm. Female glumes (3.5–)4–6(–8) by 1–2.2 mm, oblong-elliptic, dark purplish red, with a narrow and green or straw-coloured midrib, acuminate, acumen up to 1.2 mm. Utricles 3.5–5 by 1.1–1.6 mm, elliptic to elliptic-obovoid, straight or slightly curved, many-nerved, gradually or abruptly narrowed into a beak, brown to reddish brown with dark purplish red speckles; beak 0.8–1.5 mm, bifid, with ± similar dorsal and ventral sinus, 0.2–0.5 mm depth, smooth or ± aculeolate. Achenes 2.3–2.5 by 1–1.2 mm, oblong-elliptic to oblong-obovoid. [details]
Distribution Southern Tanzania, Kitulo Plateau.
Distribution Southern Tanzania, Kitulo Plateau. [details]
Etymology Etymology. This new taxon is dedicated to our PhD supervisor Dr. Modesto Luceño, who performed his PhD on the systematics...
Etymology Etymology. This new taxon is dedicated to our PhD supervisor Dr. Modesto Luceño, who performed his PhD on the systematics of the Iberian species of genus Carex at the Royal Botanic Garden of Madrid (Spain). Later on, he continued his research on systematics of Cyperaceae in the Botanic Garden of Geneva (Switzerland) and Pernambuco University (Brazil). At present, he is a Professor at Pablo de Olavide University (Seville, Spain), where he leads a research group focused on the systematics and evolution of tribe Cariceae. [details]
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: ipni Update namepublishedIn from Blumea 57(2): 145. 2012 [19 Sep 2012] [epublished] to Blumea 57: 145...
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: ipni Update namepublishedIn from Blumea 57(2): 145. 2012 [19 Sep 2012] [epublished] to Blumea 57: 145 (2012), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 [details]
Cyperaceae Working Group. (2025). [see How to cite]. Global Cyperaceae Database. Carex modesti M.Escudero, Martín-Bravo & Jim.Mejías. Accessed at: https://cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1676290 on 2025-04-20
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Nomenclature
original description
Martín-Bravo, S.; Escudero, M.; Jiménez-Mejías, P. (2012). Carex modesti (Cyperaceae), a new species from southern Tanzania. <em>Blumea journal of plant taxonomy and plant geography.</em> 57(2): 143-146., available online at https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/nhn/blumea/2012/00000057/00000002/art00010#
page(s): 145 [details]
basis of record Plants of the World Online (POWO). , available online at https://powo.science.kew.org/ [details]
page(s): 145 [details]
basis of record Plants of the World Online (POWO). , available online at https://powo.science.kew.org/ [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype NBCN WAG0112511, geounit Tanzania [details]
Isotype NBCN WAG0112512, geounit Tanzania [details]
Paratype BR 21538742, geounit Tanzania [details]
Paratype UPS V-633453, geounit Tanzania [details]
From editor or global species database
Altitude 2750 m [details]Description Robust rhizomatous, perennial herb. Rhizome creeping, with ± long internodes. Stems 50 – 90 cm, ± stout, trigonous, smooth, green to yellowish green, with dark purplish red spots. Leaves 15–35 cm by 5 –11 mm, plicate, with revolute margins, rigid, coriaceous, slightly scabrid on apical parts; sheaths brown, reddish brown to purplish red; ligule 3–6 mm, subacute; anteligule concave. Inflorescence 28 – 49 cm, lowest internode 8.5–21 cm and the second one 6.5 –12.5 cm. Lowest bract 13.5– 40 cm by 5 – 8 mm, shorter than the inflorescence, with revolute margins; sheath 5–7.5 cm long, the inner side dark purplish red. Spikes 7–13, heteromorphic to subheteromorphic, 1–3 upper male spikes, 0–2 androgynous spikes and 3–11 lower female spikes; terminal spike 2.5–8.5 cm by 3–12 mm, terete, sessile or with a peduncle up to 1.2 cm; female spikes, 4.5–12 cm by 7–12 mm, dense-flowered, terete, always arising solitary, peduncle up to 5.9 cm. Male glumes 5–7 by 0.9–1.6 mm, oblong-elliptic to oblong-obovate, dark purplish red with a narrow, straw-coloured midrib, mucronate, mucro up to 1 mm. Female glumes (3.5–)4–6(–8) by 1–2.2 mm, oblong-elliptic, dark purplish red, with a narrow and green or straw-coloured midrib, acuminate, acumen up to 1.2 mm. Utricles 3.5–5 by 1.1–1.6 mm, elliptic to elliptic-obovoid, straight or slightly curved, many-nerved, gradually or abruptly narrowed into a beak, brown to reddish brown with dark purplish red speckles; beak 0.8–1.5 mm, bifid, with ± similar dorsal and ventral sinus, 0.2–0.5 mm depth, smooth or ± aculeolate. Achenes 2.3–2.5 by 1–1.2 mm, oblong-elliptic to oblong-obovoid. [details]
Distribution Southern Tanzania, Kitulo Plateau. [details]
Etymology Etymology. This new taxon is dedicated to our PhD supervisor Dr. Modesto Luceño, who performed his PhD on the systematics of the Iberian species of genus Carex at the Royal Botanic Garden of Madrid (Spain). Later on, he continued his research on systematics of Cyperaceae in the Botanic Garden of Geneva (Switzerland) and Pernambuco University (Brazil). At present, he is a Professor at Pablo de Olavide University (Seville, Spain), where he leads a research group focused on the systematics and evolution of tribe Cariceae. [details]
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: ipni Update namepublishedIn from Blumea 57(2): 145. 2012 [19 Sep 2012] [epublished] to Blumea 57: 145 (2012), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 [details]
