Cyperaceae taxon details
Carex monotropa Nelmes
1676299 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1676299)
accepted
Species
terrestrial
Nelmes, E. (1955). Notes on Cyperaceae. XXXIV. Allies of Carex flava L. in the Southern Hemisphere. Kew Bulletin, 101: 83-88.
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Description Loosely tufted. Rhizome extremely short. Stems erect, trigonous, 2-3 cm tall, 0.5-1 mm thick, smooth. Leaves sheathing and...
Description Loosely tufted. Rhizome extremely short. Stems erect, trigonous, 2-3 cm tall, 0.5-1 mm thick, smooth. Leaves sheathing and clothing all the stem, up to rather more than twice its length, 1.5-3 mm wide, flat to somewhat folded. Spikes 3 or 4, all densely crowded at the apex of the stem, terminal usually male, sometimes female, about 4-7 mm long, when male slenderly (1-1.5 mm) cylindric, lateral spikes widely or rather widely spreading, female, more or less globose, 5-7 mm long, 4-6 mm thick, subdense-flowered, subsessile or scarcely to shortly exserted-peduncled. Bracts of the lateral spikes foliaceous or subfoliaceous, slightly to much exceeding the inflorescence, shortly sheathing. Female glumes ovate, oblong-ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, flattish to cymbiform, apex very obtuse to truncate-rounded, 2.5-3 mm long, 1.2-1.6 mm wide, pale or pale greenish below and rich castaneous above except for a greenish stripe along the midrib area, midrib not excurrent. Utricles not quite mature, ellipsoid but tapering at each end, especially above, compressed-trigonous, 4-5 mm long, 1.25-1.5 mm broad, membranaceous, strongly and rather closely nerved on each face, narrowly marginate, glabrous, straightish, not widely spreading, pale below, green above, not stipitate; beak tapering below, compressed, 1.25-1.5 mm long, narrowly marginate, glabrous, straight, green, shortly bidentate; teeth straight. Achene not fully developed, obovoid, trigonous, 1.25-1.5 mm long, about 1 mm broad, shortly and slenderly beaked. [details]
Cyperaceae Working Group. (2025). [see How to cite]. Global Cyperaceae Database. Carex monotropa Nelmes. Accessed at: https://cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1676299 on 2025-04-01
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Nomenclature
original description
Nelmes, E. (1955). Notes on Cyperaceae. XXXIV. Allies of Carex flava L. in the Southern Hemisphere. Kew Bulletin, 101: 83-88.
page(s): 86 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record Plants of the World Online (POWO). , available online at https://powo.science.kew.org/ [details]
page(s): 86 [details] Available for editors
[request]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
From editor or global species database
Description Loosely tufted. Rhizome extremely short. Stems erect, trigonous, 2-3 cm tall, 0.5-1 mm thick, smooth. Leaves sheathing and clothing all the stem, up to rather more than twice its length, 1.5-3 mm wide, flat to somewhat folded. Spikes 3 or 4, all densely crowded at the apex of the stem, terminal usually male, sometimes female, about 4-7 mm long, when male slenderly (1-1.5 mm) cylindric, lateral spikes widely or rather widely spreading, female, more or less globose, 5-7 mm long, 4-6 mm thick, subdense-flowered, subsessile or scarcely to shortly exserted-peduncled. Bracts of the lateral spikes foliaceous or subfoliaceous, slightly to much exceeding the inflorescence, shortly sheathing. Female glumes ovate, oblong-ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, flattish to cymbiform, apex very obtuse to truncate-rounded, 2.5-3 mm long, 1.2-1.6 mm wide, pale or pale greenish below and rich castaneous above except for a greenish stripe along the midrib area, midrib not excurrent. Utricles not quite mature, ellipsoid but tapering at each end, especially above, compressed-trigonous, 4-5 mm long, 1.25-1.5 mm broad, membranaceous, strongly and rather closely nerved on each face, narrowly marginate, glabrous, straightish, not widely spreading, pale below, green above, not stipitate; beak tapering below, compressed, 1.25-1.5 mm long, narrowly marginate, glabrous, straight, green, shortly bidentate; teeth straight. Achene not fully developed, obovoid, trigonous, 1.25-1.5 mm long, about 1 mm broad, shortly and slenderly beaked. [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carex monotropa)
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To Plants of the World Online
To Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Carex monotropa K000363599 holotype 1)
To Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Carex monotropa K000363600 type 1)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carex monotropa)
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To Plants of the World Online
To Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Carex monotropa K000363599 holotype 1)
To Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Carex monotropa K000363600 type 1)
