Cyperaceae taxon details
Carex cortesii Liebm.
1676720 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1676720)
accepted
Species
terrestrial
Liebmann, F.M. (1850). Mexicos halvgraes bearbeidede efter Forgaengernes og egne Materialier med Tillaeg af de i Nicaragua og Costa Rica af Mag. A. S. Örsted samlede samt nogle faa ubeskrevne vestindiske Former. Videnskabernes Selskab, Copenhague, 87 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355114#page/29/mode/1up
page(s): 268 [details]
page(s): 268 [details]
Lectotype C 10010053, geounit Oaxaca
Lectotype C 10010053, geounit Oaxaca [details]
Description Culms 30–80 cm × 1–3 mm, scabrous or smooth. Basal sheaths reddish-brown. Leaves 90–150 cm × 5.0–7.9 mm largest...
Distribution This species is appears in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, and Sierra Madre del Sur, spanning the Mexican states of Puebla...
Etymology The name commemorates the Spanish explorer Hernán Cortés, as the legend says that he was the first European to climb to...
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Mexic. Halvgr. 268 1850 to Mexic. Halvgr. : 268 (1850), information...
Description Culms 30–80 cm × 1–3 mm, scabrous or smooth. Basal sheaths reddish-brown. Leaves 90–150 cm × 5.0–7.9 mm largest ones, longer than the culms, oldest ones reddish-brown at the base, scabrous at the margin. Inflorescence racemose, 11.2–30.4 cm long, with 15–45 androgynous spikes, occasionally with >30 additional staminate spikes, spreading or dropping; Proximal-most bract 23.0–27.8 cm × 3–5.4 mm, longer than the inflorescence. Spikes 2.0–7.6 cm × 4.3–7.2 mm, linear, densely flowered, the distal 1/5 staminate, unbranched, with about 100–160 fe-male flowers, peduncles flexuous, smooth or scabrous, longer than the spikes. Pis-tillate glumes 2.4–3.7 × 0.9–1.4 mm, ovate lanceolate to subulate, acute, chestnut, reddish to purplish with a paler middle longitudinal strip, acute, emucronate or with a short, scabrous mucro, hyaline margins absent, margins and apex some-times ciliolate. Stigmas 3. Utricles 3.0–3.8 × 0.8–1.4 mm, elliptic, smooth, greenish to stramineous, sometimes reddish of purple-black-spotted or stained, nerveless or nerves raised, obtusely trigonous to compressed biconvex, constricted at the apex into a 0.3–0.8 mm long straight beak, smooth or scabridulous, bidentate or rarely truncate, the teeth 0.1-0.3 mm long. Nutlets 1.6–2.3 × 0.6–0.9 mm, elliptic to nar-rowly obovate, yellowish to pale brown, style often leaving a cylindrical remnant at the apex of the nutlet [details]
Distribution This species is appears in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, and Sierra Madre del Sur, spanning the Mexican states of Puebla...
Distribution This species is appears in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, and Sierra Madre del Sur, spanning the Mexican states of Puebla and Oaxaca [details]
Etymology The name commemorates the Spanish explorer Hernán Cortés, as the legend says that he was the first European to climb to...
Etymology The name commemorates the Spanish explorer Hernán Cortés, as the legend says that he was the first European to climb to Zempoaltepec, type location of this spe-cies. [details]
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Mexic. Halvgr. 268 1850 to Mexic. Halvgr. : 268 (1850), information...
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Mexic. Halvgr. 268 1850 to Mexic. Halvgr. : 268 (1850), 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 cortesii Liebm.. Accessed at: https://cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1676720 on 2026-01-13
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Nomenclature
original description
Liebmann, F.M. (1850). Mexicos halvgraes bearbeidede efter Forgaengernes og egne Materialier med Tillaeg af de i Nicaragua og Costa Rica af Mag. A. S. Örsted samlede samt nogle faa ubeskrevne vestindiske Former. Videnskabernes Selskab, Copenhague, 87 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355114#page/29/mode/1up
page(s): 268 [details]
basis of record Plants of the World Online (POWO). , available online at https://powo.science.kew.org/ [details]
page(s): 268 [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
Lectotype C 10010053, geounit Oaxaca [details]
From editor or global species database
Description Culms 30–80 cm × 1–3 mm, scabrous or smooth. Basal sheaths reddish-brown. Leaves 90–150 cm × 5.0–7.9 mm largest ones, longer than the culms, oldest ones reddish-brown at the base, scabrous at the margin. Inflorescence racemose, 11.2–30.4 cm long, with 15–45 androgynous spikes, occasionally with >30 additional staminate spikes, spreading or dropping; Proximal-most bract 23.0–27.8 cm × 3–5.4 mm, longer than the inflorescence. Spikes 2.0–7.6 cm × 4.3–7.2 mm, linear, densely flowered, the distal 1/5 staminate, unbranched, with about 100–160 fe-male flowers, peduncles flexuous, smooth or scabrous, longer than the spikes. Pis-tillate glumes 2.4–3.7 × 0.9–1.4 mm, ovate lanceolate to subulate, acute, chestnut, reddish to purplish with a paler middle longitudinal strip, acute, emucronate or with a short, scabrous mucro, hyaline margins absent, margins and apex some-times ciliolate. Stigmas 3. Utricles 3.0–3.8 × 0.8–1.4 mm, elliptic, smooth, greenish to stramineous, sometimes reddish of purple-black-spotted or stained, nerveless or nerves raised, obtusely trigonous to compressed biconvex, constricted at the apex into a 0.3–0.8 mm long straight beak, smooth or scabridulous, bidentate or rarely truncate, the teeth 0.1-0.3 mm long. Nutlets 1.6–2.3 × 0.6–0.9 mm, elliptic to nar-rowly obovate, yellowish to pale brown, style often leaving a cylindrical remnant at the apex of the nutlet [details]Distribution This species is appears in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, and Sierra Madre del Sur, spanning the Mexican states of Puebla and Oaxaca [details]
Etymology The name commemorates the Spanish explorer Hernán Cortés, as the legend says that he was the first European to climb to Zempoaltepec, type location of this spe-cies. [details]
Habitat Pine forest and hardwood cloud forest with Pinus, Quercus and Abies. 2700–3050 m. [details]
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Mexic. Halvgr. 268 1850 to Mexic. Halvgr. : 268 (1850), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be found in [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To Plants of the World Online
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To Plants of the World Online
From editor or global species database
