Cyperaceae taxon details
Carex multispiculata Luceño & Martín-Bravo
1676326 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1676326)
accepted
Species
Schoenoxiphium madagascariense Cherm. · unaccepted
terrestrial
(of Schoenoxiphium madagascariense Cherm.) Chermezon, H. (1923). Scleria et Schoenoxiphium nouveaux de Madagascar. <em>Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France.</em> 70: 297-301., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29402025#page/330/mode/1up
page(s): 299 [details]
page(s): 299 [details]
Description Rhizome not caespitose, with long internodes, stout, dark-brown. Flowering culms (25)40–80(90) cm long, erect, acutely...
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcvp
Description Rhizome not caespitose, with long internodes, stout, dark-brown. Flowering culms (25)40–80(90) cm long, erect, acutely trigonous, smooth, leafy along ⅔–⅘ of their length, (1.5)2–2.8(3.5) mm wide at the middle. Leaves (2.1)6.5–10(11) mm wide, usually longer than the inflorescence, rarely shorter, coriaceous, more or less glaucous, flat, slightly carinate or somewhat canaliculate in cross-section, scabrous along the edges and usually along the abaxial midrib; adaxial surface smooth or sparsely aculeate on the midrib in the upper third; straight at the apex; ligule 0.1–0.4 mm long. Basal sheaths entire, with lamina, or rarely the lowermost bladeless. Lowest bract of the inflorescence leaf-like, longer than the inflorescence, rarely shorter, not sheathing, or the lowermost with a sheath up to 40 mm long. Inflorescence branching up to 3(4) times, very dense, rarely somewhat lax, multispiculate, broadly ovoid to suborbicular, occupying up to the upper ⅕ of the culm, rarely up to ⅓, but then composed of 2–3 suberect to erect, ovoid to suborbicular parts, one terminal and 1–2 lateral, long-pedunculate, distant parts. Partial inflorescences (9)11–21(25), erect, subsessile, overlapping, or the 1–2 lowermost long-pedunculate and distant. Glumiform perigynia and glumiform cladoprophylls occasionally present. Tubular cladoprophylls always present at the base of the peduncles of the lowermost partial inflorescences, hyaline to brownish. Utriculiform cladoprophylls always present. Male glumes 3–6 × (1)1.5–2 mm, ovate-lanceolate to ovate, yellowish-brown to brown, with a green central band, usually with an aculeate mucro or arista up to 1(1.5) mm long. Female glumes 3–6.5 × 1.8–2.3 mm, ovate, predominantly brownish, with a green central band, ending in an aculeate mucro up to 2(6) mm long. Unisexual utricles, when present, 4.4–6.5 × 0.6–0.8 mm, narrowly linear, straw-coloured to yellowish-brown or subhyaline when mature, stipitate, straight to arcuate, smooth, with numerous prominent veins across the entire surface, suberect to erecto-patent, gradually attenuated into an obliquely truncate, irregular to slightly bifid beak up to 2(2.5) mm long; rachilla protruding from the apex up to 5(8) mm long. Bisexual utricles widely and obliquely truncate, more or less split at the apex. Achenes 3–5.5 × 0.5–0.7 mm, oblong-trigonous, yellowish-brown when mature, tipped by a shortly trigonous to pyramidal, persistent style base. [details]
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcvp
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcvp [details]
Cyperaceae Working Group. (2026). [see How to cite]. Global Cyperaceae Database. Carex multispiculata Luceño & Martín-Bravo. Accessed at: https://www.cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1676326 on 2026-05-08
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Schoenoxiphium madagascariense Cherm.) Chermezon, H. (1923). Scleria et Schoenoxiphium nouveaux de Madagascar. <em>Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France.</em> 70: 297-301., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29402025#page/330/mode/1up
page(s): 299 [details]
basis of record Plants of the World Online (POWO). , available online at https://powo.science.kew.org/ [details]
new combination reference Global Carex Group. (2015). Making <i>Carex</i> monophyletic (Cyperaceae, tribe Cariceae): a new broader circumscription. <em>Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 179(1): 1-42., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/boj.12298
page(s): 28 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 299 [details]
basis of record Plants of the World Online (POWO). , available online at https://powo.science.kew.org/ [details]
new combination reference Global Carex Group. (2015). Making <i>Carex</i> monophyletic (Cyperaceae, tribe Cariceae): a new broader circumscription. <em>Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 179(1): 1-42., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/boj.12298
page(s): 28 [details] Available for editors
[request]Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Luceño, M.; Villaverde, T.; Márquez-Corro, J. I.; Sánchez-Villegas, R.; Maguilla, E.; Escudero, M.; Jiménez-Mejías, P.; Sánchez-Villegas, M.; Miguez, M.; Benítez-Benítez, C.; Muasya, A. M.; Martín-Bravo, S. (2021). An integrative monograph of <i>Carex</i> section <i>Schoenoxiphium</i> (Cyperaceae). <em>PeerJ.</em> 9: e11336., available online at https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11336 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Description Rhizome not caespitose, with long internodes, stout, dark-brown. Flowering culms (25)40–80(90) cm long, erect, acutely trigonous, smooth, leafy along ⅔–⅘ of their length, (1.5)2–2.8(3.5) mm wide at the middle. Leaves (2.1)6.5–10(11) mm wide, usually longer than the inflorescence, rarely shorter, coriaceous, more or less glaucous, flat, slightly carinate or somewhat canaliculate in cross-section, scabrous along the edges and usually along the abaxial midrib; adaxial surface smooth or sparsely aculeate on the midrib in the upper third; straight at the apex; ligule 0.1–0.4 mm long. Basal sheaths entire, with lamina, or rarely the lowermost bladeless. Lowest bract of the inflorescence leaf-like, longer than the inflorescence, rarely shorter, not sheathing, or the lowermost with a sheath up to 40 mm long. Inflorescence branching up to 3(4) times, very dense, rarely somewhat lax, multispiculate, broadly ovoid to suborbicular, occupying up to the upper ⅕ of the culm, rarely up to ⅓, but then composed of 2–3 suberect to erect, ovoid to suborbicular parts, one terminal and 1–2 lateral, long-pedunculate, distant parts. Partial inflorescences (9)11–21(25), erect, subsessile, overlapping, or the 1–2 lowermost long-pedunculate and distant. Glumiform perigynia and glumiform cladoprophylls occasionally present. Tubular cladoprophylls always present at the base of the peduncles of the lowermost partial inflorescences, hyaline to brownish. Utriculiform cladoprophylls always present. Male glumes 3–6 × (1)1.5–2 mm, ovate-lanceolate to ovate, yellowish-brown to brown, with a green central band, usually with an aculeate mucro or arista up to 1(1.5) mm long. Female glumes 3–6.5 × 1.8–2.3 mm, ovate, predominantly brownish, with a green central band, ending in an aculeate mucro up to 2(6) mm long. Unisexual utricles, when present, 4.4–6.5 × 0.6–0.8 mm, narrowly linear, straw-coloured to yellowish-brown or subhyaline when mature, stipitate, straight to arcuate, smooth, with numerous prominent veins across the entire surface, suberect to erecto-patent, gradually attenuated into an obliquely truncate, irregular to slightly bifid beak up to 2(2.5) mm long; rachilla protruding from the apex up to 5(8) mm long. Bisexual utricles widely and obliquely truncate, more or less split at the apex. Achenes 3–5.5 × 0.5–0.7 mm, oblong-trigonous, yellowish-brown when mature, tipped by a shortly trigonous to pyramidal, persistent style base. [details]Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcvp [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Schoenoxiphium madagascariense Cherm.)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carex multispiculata)
To GenBank (34 nucleotides; 6 proteins) (from synonym Schoenoxiphium madagascariense Cherm.)
To GenBank (34 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Schoenoxiphium madagascariense Cherm.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To Plants of the World Online
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Schoenoxiphium madagascariense Cherm.)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carex multispiculata)
To GenBank (34 nucleotides; 6 proteins) (from synonym Schoenoxiphium madagascariense Cherm.)
To GenBank (34 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Schoenoxiphium madagascariense Cherm.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To Plants of the World Online
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Schoenoxiphium madagascariense Cherm.)
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