Cyperaceae taxon details
Carex donnell-smithii L.H.Bailey
1676859 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1676859)
accepted
Species
Carex pittieri Boeckeler · unaccepted
terrestrial
Bailey, L. H. (1889). Studies of the types of various species of the genus <i>Carex</i>. Notes on <i>Carex</i>.—XI. <em>Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club.</em> 1(1): 1-86., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31679539#page/7/mode/1up
page(s): 56 [details]
page(s): 56 [details]
Lectotype (of Carex pittieri Boeckeler) US 579796,...
Lectotype (of Carex pittieri Boeckeler) US 579796, geounit Costa Rica [details]
Lectotype US, geounit Guatemala [details]
Description Roots densely covered with short yellowish to stramineous hairs. Culms 30–80 cm × 1–3 mm. Basal sheaths reddish-brown...
Distribution This species is distributed in the Central American Cordillera from southern Mexi-co, Guatemala, and Honduras, and in the...
Etymology The name commemorates John Donnell Smith, an American botanist and military officer known for his botanical work in Central...
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 1: 56 1889 to Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 1: 56...
Description Roots densely covered with short yellowish to stramineous hairs. Culms 30–80 cm × 1–3 mm. Basal sheaths reddish-brown to dark purple. Leaves (25)55–165 cm × 5.0–9.5 mm largest ones, much longer than the culms, oldest ones orangey-brownish at the base. Inflorescence lax panicle, 12.0–30.2 cm long, with (10)20–65 androgynous spikes, erect, spreading or dropping. Proximal-most bract 22.5–39.6 cm × 3–6 mm, subequal or longer than the inflorescence. Spikes 4.3–11.4 cm × 4.0–7.1 mm, linear, densely flowered, the distal 1/5 staminate, unbranched to 1–2-branched, with about 40–100 female flowers, peduncles smooth or scabrous and papillose, much shorter than the spikes. Pistillate glumes (2.6)2.9–4.3 × 0.6–1.7 mm, lanceolate, acute, purplish-black with a light-yellow middle longitudinal strip, awn (0.2)0.5–1.6 mm, hyaline margins absent. Stigmas 3. Utricles 2.0–3.3 × 0.6–1.5 mm, C-shaped, smooth, green-brownish to dark purple, somewhat shiny, lateral and side nerves conspicuous, constricted at the apex into a 0.8–1.4 mm long curved beak, smooth, bidentate to bifid, teeth up to 0.6 mm long. Nutlets 1.6–2.4 × 0.8–1.2 mm, oblong to elliptic to suborbicular, with one lateral invagination at the middle or completely irregular. [details]
Distribution This species is distributed in the Central American Cordillera from southern Mexi-co, Guatemala, and Honduras, and in the...
Distribution This species is distributed in the Central American Cordillera from southern Mexi-co, Guatemala, and Honduras, and in the Sierra de Talamanca in Costa Rica and Panama. [details]
Etymology The name commemorates John Donnell Smith, an American botanist and military officer known for his botanical work in Central...
Etymology The name commemorates John Donnell Smith, an American botanist and military officer known for his botanical work in Central America, who communicated Bai-ley about this species. [details]
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 1: 56 1889 to Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 1: 56...
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 1: 56 1889 to Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 1: 56 (1889), 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 donnell-smithii L.H.Bailey. Accessed at: https://cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1676859 on 2026-01-13
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Nomenclature
original description
Bailey, L. H. (1889). Studies of the types of various species of the genus <i>Carex</i>. Notes on <i>Carex</i>.—XI. <em>Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club.</em> 1(1): 1-86., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31679539#page/7/mode/1up
page(s): 56 [details]
original description (of Carex pittieri Boeckeler) Karlsruhe, J.A. (1896). Allgemeine botanische Zeitschrift für Systematik, Floristik, Pflanzengeographie. 2., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10083863
page(s): 190 [details]
basis of record Plants of the World Online (POWO). , available online at https://powo.science.kew.org/ [details]
page(s): 56 [details]
original description (of Carex pittieri Boeckeler) Karlsruhe, J.A. (1896). Allgemeine botanische Zeitschrift für Systematik, Floristik, Pflanzengeographie. 2., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10083863
page(s): 190 [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 (of Carex pittieri Boeckeler) US 579796, geounit Costa Rica [details]
Lectotype US, geounit Guatemala [details]
From editor or global species database
Description Roots densely covered with short yellowish to stramineous hairs. Culms 30–80 cm × 1–3 mm. Basal sheaths reddish-brown to dark purple. Leaves (25)55–165 cm × 5.0–9.5 mm largest ones, much longer than the culms, oldest ones orangey-brownish at the base. Inflorescence lax panicle, 12.0–30.2 cm long, with (10)20–65 androgynous spikes, erect, spreading or dropping. Proximal-most bract 22.5–39.6 cm × 3–6 mm, subequal or longer than the inflorescence. Spikes 4.3–11.4 cm × 4.0–7.1 mm, linear, densely flowered, the distal 1/5 staminate, unbranched to 1–2-branched, with about 40–100 female flowers, peduncles smooth or scabrous and papillose, much shorter than the spikes. Pistillate glumes (2.6)2.9–4.3 × 0.6–1.7 mm, lanceolate, acute, purplish-black with a light-yellow middle longitudinal strip, awn (0.2)0.5–1.6 mm, hyaline margins absent. Stigmas 3. Utricles 2.0–3.3 × 0.6–1.5 mm, C-shaped, smooth, green-brownish to dark purple, somewhat shiny, lateral and side nerves conspicuous, constricted at the apex into a 0.8–1.4 mm long curved beak, smooth, bidentate to bifid, teeth up to 0.6 mm long. Nutlets 1.6–2.4 × 0.8–1.2 mm, oblong to elliptic to suborbicular, with one lateral invagination at the middle or completely irregular. [details]Distribution This species is distributed in the Central American Cordillera from southern Mexi-co, Guatemala, and Honduras, and in the Sierra de Talamanca in Costa Rica and Panama. [details]
Etymology The name commemorates John Donnell Smith, an American botanist and military officer known for his botanical work in Central America, who communicated Bai-ley about this species. [details]
Habitat Montane oak (Quercus) forests, usually associated to moist and wet zones. 1150–3400 m. [details]
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 1: 56 1889 to Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 1: 56 (1889), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be found in [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Carex pittieri Boeckeler)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carex donnell-smithii)
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex pittieri Boeckeler)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex pittieri Boeckeler)
To Plants of the World Online
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carex donnell-smithii)
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex pittieri Boeckeler)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex pittieri Boeckeler)
To Plants of the World Online
From editor or global species database
