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Cyperaceae taxon details

Carex elata All.

To the Natural History Museum, London (Carex elata All. BM001067127 type 1)
To the Natural History Museum, London (Carex elata All. BM001067127 type 1)

1676895  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1676895)

  1. Biota
  2. Plantae (Kingdom)
  3. Viridiplantae (Subkingdom)
  4. Streptophyta (Infrakingdom)
  5. Tracheophyta (Phylum (Division))
  6. Spermatophytina (Subphylum (Subdivision))
  7. Magnoliopsida (Class)
  8. Lilianae (Superorder)
  9. Poales (Order)
  10. Cyperaceae (Family)
  11. Cariceae (Tribe)
  12. Carex (Genus)
  13. Carex subg. Carex (Subgenus)
  14. Carex sect. Phacocystis (Section)
  15. Carex elata (Species)
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Allioni, C. (1785). Flora Pedemontana. ii., available online at https://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/viewer/13177/?offset=#page=274&viewer=picture&o=bookmark&n=0&q=
page(s): 272 [details] 
Description Rhizomes very short, erect, forming dense tussocks up to 40 cm high; roots 2 mm thick, purple-brown; scales light brown,...  
Description Rhizomes very short, erect, forming dense tussocks up to 40 cm high; roots < 2 mm thick, purple-brown; scales light brown, shiny, persistent. Stems 25–100 cm, rough, sharply trigonous. Leaves 40–100 cm × 3–8 mm, rough, thin, plicate, gradually tapering, blue-green to glaucous on both sides, with margins rolling outwards on drying; hypostomous; sheaths becoming yellow-brown, persistent, with inner face hyaline, fibrillose, and minutely red-flecked; apex concave; ligule 5–13 mm, acute, with free tissue < 1 mm, ± tubular. Inflorescence 1/7 length of stem; bracts leaf-like to setaceous, lowest less than half length of inflorescence. Male spikes 1–3, 15–50 mm, lowermost occasionally female at base; male glumes c. 5 mm, oblanceolate, hyaline at margins; apex obtuse. Female spikes 2–3, 15–40 mm, usually contiguous, cylindric, erect, ± sessile, often male at top; female glumes 3–4 mm, ovate-elliptic, hyaline at margins; apex obtuse or subacute. Utricles 3–4 mm, broadly ovoid-ellipsoid, ribbed, green; beak 0.2 mm, truncate; nut obovoid, biconvex, stalked. [details]

Description Rizoma de entrenudos largos, a veces laxamente cespitosa. Tallos (9)25–70 cm, trígonos, lisos o algo escábridos hacia...  
Description Rizoma de entrenudos largos, a veces laxamente cespitosa. Tallos (9)25–70 cm, trígonos, lisos o algo escábridos hacia el ápice. Hojas (2)3–5,6(9) mm de anchura, de menor longitud que los tallos, ásperas en los bordes y a veces en el haz, planas, algo rígidas; lígula hasta 1,5 mm, de ápice redondeado u obtuso; sin antelígula; vainas basales escuamiformes, ± enteras, de color pardo claro, en ocasiones con manchas negras. Bráctea inferior folíácea, de menor longitud que la inflorescencia, envainante. Espiga masculina linearia, de (13)15–25(33) mm, fusiforme, de contorno oval; espigas femeninas 3–4, de (6)12–30 mm, cilíndricas, ± laxifloras, separadas o ligeramente solapadas en la base, a veces la inferior ramificada; en ocasiones la inferior subbasilar, largamente pedunculada, la(s) inferior(es) colgante(s), muy raramente todas erectas. Glumas masculinas ± ovales, agudas, subagudas, obtusas o mucronadas, negras o de color pardo oscuro, sin margen escarioso; glumas femeninas ovadas, agudas o mucronadas, negras, sin margen escarioso, de menor longitud que los utrículos. Utrículos 4–6,1 × 0,8–2,2 mm, suberectos, de contorno oval, comprimidos, con los nervios poco marcados o imperceptibles, de paredes muy delgadas, glabros, lisos, a veces con algunos acúleos en los bordes superiores del cuerpo, generalmente negros, raramente verdosos, aunque en su madurez al menos algunos casi completamente negros, gradualmente atenuados, a veces bruscamente estrechados en un pico de 0,9–1,8 mm, recto, de ápice bidentado, cortamente bífido o roto irregularmente, escábrido. Aquenios 1,4–2 × 0,6–0,9 mm, de contorno elíptico u obovado, trígonos, holgadamente incluidos en el utrículo, con el ventrículo internodal 1/2–1/3 de la longitud del aquenio, verdosos o pardos. 2n = 56, 58. [details]

Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Fl. Pedem. ii, 272. 1785 to Fl. Pedem. 2: 272 (1785), information...  
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Fl. Pedem. ii, 272. 1785 to Fl. Pedem. 2: 272 (1785), 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 elata All.. Accessed at: https://cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1676895 on 2026-05-27
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2023-09-06 07:28:28Z
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Jiménez-Mejías, Pedro
2024-12-10 11:47:54Z
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Márquez-Corro, José Ignacio

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Nomenclature

original description Allioni, C. (1785). Flora Pedemontana. ii., available online at https://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/viewer/13177/?offset=#page=274&viewer=picture&o=bookmark&n=0&q=
page(s): 272 [details] 

basis of record Plants of the World Online (POWO). , available online at https://powo.science.kew.org/ [details] 

Taxonomy

taxonomy source Luceño, M., Castroviejo, S., Jiménez-Mejías, P. (2008). Cyperaceae. In: Castroviejo, Luceño, M., Galán, A., Jiménez-Mejías, P., Cabezas, F., Medina, L. (eds). Flora iberica. Plantas vasculares de la Península Ibérica e Islas Baleares. Vol. XVIII. Madrid: CSIC., available online at https://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/records/item/12958-flora-iberica-vol-18-cyperaceae-pontederiaceae?offset=, http://www.floraiberica.es/PHP/familias_lista_.php?familia=Cyperaceae [details] 

taxonomy source Jiménez-Mejías, P.; Escudero, M.; Guerra-Cárdenas, S.; Lye, K. A.; Luceño, M. (2011). Taxonomic delimitation and drivers of speciation in the Ibero-North African Carex sect. Phacocystis river-shore group (Cyperaceae). American Journal of Botany, 98(11): 1855-1867., available online at https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1100120 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

taxonomy source Benítez‐Benítez, C.; Jiménez‐Mejías, P.; Calleja‐Alarcón, J. A.; Leo, M.; Sanz‐Arnal, M.; Lara, F.; Garilleti, R.; Martín‐Bravo, S.; Escudero, M.; Fernández‐Mazuecos, M.; Calatayud, J.; Medina, N. G. (2025). Plant Neighbourhood as Predictor of Allopatric Speciation in Sedges. <em>Molecular Ecology.</em> 34(6)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17683 [details] 

taxonomy source Jiménez‐Mejías, P.; Martinetto, E.; Soldano, A.; Dorr, L. (2019). The problematic history of the name <i>Carex elata</i> All. (Cyperaceae) and its neotypification. <em>TAXON.</em> 68(3): 580-583., available online at https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12088 [details] 

taxonomy source Jermy, A.C.; Simpson, D.A.; Foley, M.J.Y.; Porter, M.S. (2007). Sedges of the British Isles. 554 pp. Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland, United Kingdom. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Syntype BM 001067127, geounit Germany [details]
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Description Rhizomes very short, erect, forming dense tussocks up to 40 cm high; roots < 2 mm thick, purple-brown; scales light brown, shiny, persistent. Stems 25–100 cm, rough, sharply trigonous. Leaves 40–100 cm × 3–8 mm, rough, thin, plicate, gradually tapering, blue-green to glaucous on both sides, with margins rolling outwards on drying; hypostomous; sheaths becoming yellow-brown, persistent, with inner face hyaline, fibrillose, and minutely red-flecked; apex concave; ligule 5–13 mm, acute, with free tissue < 1 mm, ± tubular. Inflorescence 1/7 length of stem; bracts leaf-like to setaceous, lowest less than half length of inflorescence. Male spikes 1–3, 15–50 mm, lowermost occasionally female at base; male glumes c. 5 mm, oblanceolate, hyaline at margins; apex obtuse. Female spikes 2–3, 15–40 mm, usually contiguous, cylindric, erect, ± sessile, often male at top; female glumes 3–4 mm, ovate-elliptic, hyaline at margins; apex obtuse or subacute. Utricles 3–4 mm, broadly ovoid-ellipsoid, ribbed, green; beak 0.2 mm, truncate; nut obovoid, biconvex, stalked. [details]

Description Rizoma de entrenudos largos, a veces laxamente cespitosa. Tallos (9)25–70 cm, trígonos, lisos o algo escábridos hacia el ápice. Hojas (2)3–5,6(9) mm de anchura, de menor longitud que los tallos, ásperas en los bordes y a veces en el haz, planas, algo rígidas; lígula hasta 1,5 mm, de ápice redondeado u obtuso; sin antelígula; vainas basales escuamiformes, ± enteras, de color pardo claro, en ocasiones con manchas negras. Bráctea inferior folíácea, de menor longitud que la inflorescencia, envainante. Espiga masculina linearia, de (13)15–25(33) mm, fusiforme, de contorno oval; espigas femeninas 3–4, de (6)12–30 mm, cilíndricas, ± laxifloras, separadas o ligeramente solapadas en la base, a veces la inferior ramificada; en ocasiones la inferior subbasilar, largamente pedunculada, la(s) inferior(es) colgante(s), muy raramente todas erectas. Glumas masculinas ± ovales, agudas, subagudas, obtusas o mucronadas, negras o de color pardo oscuro, sin margen escarioso; glumas femeninas ovadas, agudas o mucronadas, negras, sin margen escarioso, de menor longitud que los utrículos. Utrículos 4–6,1 × 0,8–2,2 mm, suberectos, de contorno oval, comprimidos, con los nervios poco marcados o imperceptibles, de paredes muy delgadas, glabros, lisos, a veces con algunos acúleos en los bordes superiores del cuerpo, generalmente negros, raramente verdosos, aunque en su madurez al menos algunos casi completamente negros, gradualmente atenuados, a veces bruscamente estrechados en un pico de 0,9–1,8 mm, recto, de ápice bidentado, cortamente bífido o roto irregularmente, escábrido. Aquenios 1,4–2 × 0,6–0,9 mm, de contorno elíptico u obovado, trígonos, holgadamente incluidos en el utrículo, con el ventrículo internodal 1/2–1/3 de la longitud del aquenio, verdosos o pardos. 2n = 56, 58. [details]

Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Fl. Pedem. ii, 272. 1785 to Fl. Pedem. 2: 272 (1785), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be found in [details]

Translation Rhizome with long internodes, sometimes loosely cespitose. Stems (9)25–70 cm, trigonous, smooth or somewhat scabrid toward the apex. Leaves (2)3–5.6(9) mm wide, shorter than the stems, rough on the margins and sometimes on the upper surface, flat, somewhat rigid; ligule up to 1.5 mm long, with rounded or obtuse apex; without an antiligule; basal sheaths scale-like, ± entire, light brown, sometimes with black spots. Lower bract leafy, shorter than the inflorescence, sheathing. Male spike linear, (13)15–25(33) mm long, fusiform, oval in outline; female spikes 3–4, (6)12–30 mm long, cylindrical, ± lax-flowered, separated or slightly overlapping at the base, sometimes the lowest branched; occasionally the lowest subbasal, long-pedunculate, the lower ones pendulous, very rarely all erect. Male glumes ± oval, acute, subacute, obtuse or mucronate, black or dark brown, lacking a scarious margin; female glumes ovate, acute or mucronate, black, without a scarious margin, shorter than the utricles. Utricles 4–6.1 × 0.8–2.2 mm, suberect, oval in outline, compressed, with nerves weakly marked or imperceptible, with very thin walls, glabrous, smooth, sometimes bearing a few small prickles along the upper margins of the body, generally black, rarely greenish, although at maturity at least some are almost completely black, gradually attenuate or sometimes abruptly narrowed into a straight beak 0.9–1.8 mm long, bidentate at the apex, shortly bifid or irregularly broken, scabrid. Achenes 1.4–2 × 0.6–0.9 mm, elliptic or obovoid in outline, trigonous, loosely enclosed within the utricle, with the ventral internodal area occupying 1/2–1/3 of the achene length, greenish or brown. 2n = 56, 58. [details]
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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (131 publications) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carex elata) 
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex cespitosa var. elata (All.) Fiori)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) 
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex elata f. brachystachys (Podp.) Soó)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern) 
To Plants of the World Online 
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex cespitosa var. elata (All.) Fiori)
To the Natural History Museum, London (Carex elata All. BM001067127 type 1) 
To The Plant List (from synonym Carex elata f. brachystachys (Podp.) Soó)
From editor or global species database
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