Cyperaceae taxon details
Carex devia Cheeseman
1676823 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1676823)
accepted
Species
terrestrial
Cheeseman, T.F. (1883). On some recent additions to the Flora of New Zealand. <em>Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. Wellington.</em> xv: 301.
page(s): 301 [details]
page(s): 301 [details]
Lectotype AK 223514, geounit New Zealand South, AK...
Description Tuffs often rather loose, reddish green. Culms 7–30–(75) cm. × c. 1 mm., us. much lvs, subtrigonous, glab. or...
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. xv. (1883) 301. to Trans. & Proc....
Description Tuffs often rather loose, reddish green. Culms 7–30–(75) cm. × c. 1 mm., us. much > lvs, subtrigonous, glab. or scarcely scabrid; basal sheaths brown to dark brown, almost black, occ. red-tinged. Lvs 7–30 cm. × 1.5–2.5 mm., us. crowded at base of culm, channelled, occ. involute, stiff, coriac., margins moderately scabrid. Spikes 2–4, ± distant, sessile or the lowest occ. very shortly pedunculate; terminal 1–(2) spikes male, 1.5–3 mm. diam., us. clavate, rarely with a few female fls at the base; female spikes 1–2.5–(3) cm. × c. 5 mm. Glumes (excluding awn) slightly < utricles, ovate, acute, occ. emarginate, coriac., entirely red-purple, or red-brown with a green midrib produced to a hispid awn of variable length. Utricles c. 3 × 1.5 mm., unequally biconvex to plano-convex, ellipsoid, light brown at base, darker brown above, distinctly nerved, abruptly narrowed to a beak < 0.5 mm. long, deeply cleft with divergent teeth, orifice of beak scabrid, utricle otherwise entirely glab.; stipe c. 0.5 mm. long. Stigmas 2. Nut slightly < 2 mm. long, biconvex, oblong. [details]
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. xv. (1883) 301. to Trans. & Proc....
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. xv. (1883) 301. to Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 15: 301 (1883), 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 devia Cheeseman. Accessed at: https://cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1676823 on 2026-04-08
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Nomenclature
original description
Cheeseman, T.F. (1883). On some recent additions to the Flora of New Zealand. <em>Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. Wellington.</em> xv: 301.
page(s): 301 [details]
basis of record Plants of the World Online (POWO). , available online at https://powo.science.kew.org/ [details]
page(s): 301 [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 AK 223514, geounit New Zealand South [details]
Lectotype AK 223515, geounit New Zealand South [details]
Lectotype AK 2662, geounit New Zealand South [details]
Unknown type 00027584, geounit New Zealand South [details]
Unknown type K 000907596, geounit New Zealand South [details]
Unknown type K 000907597, geounit New Zealand South [details]
From editor or global species database
Description Tuffs often rather loose, reddish green. Culms 7–30–(75) cm. × c. 1 mm., us. much > lvs, subtrigonous, glab. or scarcely scabrid; basal sheaths brown to dark brown, almost black, occ. red-tinged. Lvs 7–30 cm. × 1.5–2.5 mm., us. crowded at base of culm, channelled, occ. involute, stiff, coriac., margins moderately scabrid. Spikes 2–4, ± distant, sessile or the lowest occ. very shortly pedunculate; terminal 1–(2) spikes male, 1.5–3 mm. diam., us. clavate, rarely with a few female fls at the base; female spikes 1–2.5–(3) cm. × c. 5 mm. Glumes (excluding awn) slightly < utricles, ovate, acute, occ. emarginate, coriac., entirely red-purple, or red-brown with a green midrib produced to a hispid awn of variable length. Utricles c. 3 × 1.5 mm., unequally biconvex to plano-convex, ellipsoid, light brown at base, darker brown above, distinctly nerved, abruptly narrowed to a beak < 0.5 mm. long, deeply cleft with divergent teeth, orifice of beak scabrid, utricle otherwise entirely glab.; stipe c. 0.5 mm. long. Stigmas 2. Nut slightly < 2 mm. long, biconvex, oblong. [details]Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. xv. (1883) 301. to Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 15: 301 (1883), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be found in [details]
