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Cyperaceae taxon details

Carex lancea (Thunb.) Baill.

Analytical drawing of Carex lancea
Analytical drawing of Carex lancea

1677464  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1677464)

  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. Psyllophorae (Subgenus)
  14. Carex sect. Schoenoxiphium (Section)
  15. Carex lancea (Species)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Schoenoxiphium capense Nees) Nees von Esenbeck, C.G.D. (1832). Cyperaceae Capenses Ecklonianae. In: von Schlechtendal, D.F.L. (ed.), Linnaea: Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange 7. Missouri Botanical Garden. pp. 491-537., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/98492#page/493/mode/1up
page(s): 533 [details] 
Lectotype  UPS 1350, geounit Cape of Good Hope  
Lectotype UPS 1350, geounit Cape of Good Hope [details]
Description Rhizome caespitose with more or less short internodes, stout, dark-brown. Flowering culms (50)60–110(170) cm long, erect,...  
Description Rhizome caespitose with more or less short internodes, stout, dark-brown. Flowering culms (50)60–110(170) cm long, erect, acutely trigonous, smooth, leafy up to half its length, (1)1.5–2 mm wide at the middle. Leaves (3)4–8(8.8) mm wide, shorter than the inflorescence, moderately coriaceous, green, flat in cross-section, but with an adaxial groove in the midrib area and trigonous to the apex, very scabrous along the edges and also along the abaxial midrib; adaxial surface smooth; usually curved at the apex; ligule 0.7–1.5(2) mm long. Basal sheaths entire to scarcely fibrous, with lamina. Lowest bract of the inflorescence leaf-like, shorter than the inflorescence length, with a sheath 40–60 mm long. Inflorescence occupying between ⅓ and ½ of the length of the culm, branching up to 4 times; partial inflorescences (8)11–14(16), the 3–7 lowest distant, pedunculate, nodding, with the part of the peduncle protruding from the sheath much shorter than the linear fertile part, the upper subsessile to shortly pedunculate and overlapping. Glumiform perigynia present, unisexual or bisexual. Glumiform cladoprophylls present. Tubular cladoprophylls present at the base of the distant partial inflorescences, hyaline. Utriculiform cladoprophylls absent. Male glumes 4.1–6.4(6.9) × (1.1)1.5–(2.2) mm, ovate-lanceolate to ovate, yellowish-brown to brown, with a green central band, acuminate or ending in an aculeate mucro or ariste up to 1 mm long. Female glumes 5–6.2 × 1.8–2.2 mm, lanceolate to ovate, straw-coloured to pale brown, with a green central band, acuminate, ending in an aculeate mucro up to 1(1.7) mm long. Unisexual utricles 5.5–6.1 × 0.7–1 mm, narrowly linear to narrowly oblong, stipitate, straight, straw-coloured to pale brown when mature, smooth, more rarely scabrous in the upper tiers, with numerous prominent veins across the entire surface, suberect, gradually attenuate in a more or less split, more or less scabrous beak up to 1.7 mm long; rachilla reaching to protruding from the apex up to 0.6 mm. Bisexual utricles absent. Achenes 3.5–4.5 × 0.6–1.2 mm, oblong-trigonous, pale to dark-brown when mature, tipped by a long pyramidal, persistent style base. [details]

Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Updated scientificnameAuthorship from (Thunb.) Baill. to Baill., information provided by Alan E....  
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Updated scientificnameAuthorship from (Thunb.) Baill. to Baill., information provided by Alan E. on email Oct. 12 2020 More details could be found in The Plant List v. [details]
Cyperaceae Working Group. (2026). [see How to cite]. Global Cyperaceae Database. Carex lancea (Thunb.) Baill.. Accessed at: https://cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1677464 on 2026-05-06
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2023-09-06 07:28:28Z
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Jiménez-Mejías, Pedro
2024-10-22 12:11:04Z
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Sánchez-Villegas, Manuel
2025-02-06 08:30:02Z
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Márquez-Corro, José Ignacio
2025-03-11 11:19:03Z
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Márquez-Corro, José Ignacio
2026-05-06 07:15:18Z
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Jiménez-Mejías, Pedro

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Nomenclature

original description (of Hemicarex meyeriana Benth.) Bentham, G. (1881). Notes on Cyperaceae; with special reference to Lestiboudois´s "Essai" on Beauvoi´s Genera. <em>J. Linn. Soc., Bot.</em> 18: 360-367., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/230895 [details] 

original description (of Schoenoxiphium capense Nees) Nees von Esenbeck, C.G.D. (1832). Cyperaceae Capenses Ecklonianae. In: von Schlechtendal, D.F.L. (ed.), Linnaea: Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange 7. Missouri Botanical Garden. pp. 491-537., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/98492#page/493/mode/1up
page(s): 533 [details] 

original description (of Schoenoxiphium meyerianum Kunth) Kunth, C. S. (1837). Enumeratio Plantarum Omnium Hucusque Cognitarum, Secundum Familias Naturales Disposita, Adjectis Characteribus, Differentiis et Synonymis. Vol 2. Cyperographia synoptica sive enumeratio Cyperacearum omnium hucusque cognitarum. Stuttgart: Germany., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7428301#page/9/mode/1up
page(s): 530 [details] 

original description (of Schoenoxiphium sickmannianum Kunth) Kunth, C. S. (1837). Enumeratio Plantarum Omnium Hucusque Cognitarum, Secundum Familias Naturales Disposita, Adjectis Characteribus, Differentiis et Synonymis. Vol 2. Cyperographia synoptica sive enumeratio Cyperacearum omnium hucusque cognitarum. Stuttgart: Germany., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7428301#page/9/mode/1up
page(s): 530 [details] 

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

new combination reference Baillon, H.E. (1894). CXIX Cypéracées. In: Histoire de Plantes, vol. 12, pp. 335-382. Librairie Hachette, Paris., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32084040#page/337/mode/1up
page(s): 341 [details] 

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  PDF available [request]

 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Lectotype UPS 1350, geounit Cape of Good Hope [details]
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Description Rhizome caespitose with more or less short internodes, stout, dark-brown. Flowering culms (50)60–110(170) cm long, erect, acutely trigonous, smooth, leafy up to half its length, (1)1.5–2 mm wide at the middle. Leaves (3)4–8(8.8) mm wide, shorter than the inflorescence, moderately coriaceous, green, flat in cross-section, but with an adaxial groove in the midrib area and trigonous to the apex, very scabrous along the edges and also along the abaxial midrib; adaxial surface smooth; usually curved at the apex; ligule 0.7–1.5(2) mm long. Basal sheaths entire to scarcely fibrous, with lamina. Lowest bract of the inflorescence leaf-like, shorter than the inflorescence length, with a sheath 40–60 mm long. Inflorescence occupying between ⅓ and ½ of the length of the culm, branching up to 4 times; partial inflorescences (8)11–14(16), the 3–7 lowest distant, pedunculate, nodding, with the part of the peduncle protruding from the sheath much shorter than the linear fertile part, the upper subsessile to shortly pedunculate and overlapping. Glumiform perigynia present, unisexual or bisexual. Glumiform cladoprophylls present. Tubular cladoprophylls present at the base of the distant partial inflorescences, hyaline. Utriculiform cladoprophylls absent. Male glumes 4.1–6.4(6.9) × (1.1)1.5–(2.2) mm, ovate-lanceolate to ovate, yellowish-brown to brown, with a green central band, acuminate or ending in an aculeate mucro or ariste up to 1 mm long. Female glumes 5–6.2 × 1.8–2.2 mm, lanceolate to ovate, straw-coloured to pale brown, with a green central band, acuminate, ending in an aculeate mucro up to 1(1.7) mm long. Unisexual utricles 5.5–6.1 × 0.7–1 mm, narrowly linear to narrowly oblong, stipitate, straight, straw-coloured to pale brown when mature, smooth, more rarely scabrous in the upper tiers, with numerous prominent veins across the entire surface, suberect, gradually attenuate in a more or less split, more or less scabrous beak up to 1.7 mm long; rachilla reaching to protruding from the apex up to 0.6 mm. Bisexual utricles absent. Achenes 3.5–4.5 × 0.6–1.2 mm, oblong-trigonous, pale to dark-brown when mature, tipped by a long pyramidal, persistent style base. [details]

Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Updated scientificnameAuthorship from (Thunb.) Baill. to Baill., information provided by Alan E. on email Oct. 12 2020 More details could be found in The Plant List v. [details]
    Definitions

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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Hemicarex meyeriana Benth.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Kobresia lancea (Thunb.) T.Koyama)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Hemicarex sickmanniana (Kunth) Benth.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (24 publications) (from synonym Schoenus lanceus Thunb.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (35 publications) (from synonym Carex ramosa Eckl. ex Kunth)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Schoenoxiphium lanceum (Thunb.) Kük.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Schoenoxiphium capense Nees)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carex lancea) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carex ramosa) (from synonym Carex ramosa Eckl. ex Kunth)
To GenBank (27 nucleotides; 7 proteins) (from synonym Schoenoxiphium lanceum (Thunb.) Kük.)
To GenBank (27 nucleotides; 7 proteins) 
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) 
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Hemicarex meyeriana Benth.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Hemicarex sickmanniana (Kunth) Benth.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Kobresia lancea (Thunb.) T.Koyama)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Schoenoxiphium capense Nees)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Schoenoxiphium lanceum (Thunb.) Kük.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Schoenoxiphium meyerianum Kunth)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Schoenus lanceus Thunb.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex ramosa Eckl. ex Kunth)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Schoenoxiphium sickmannianum Kunth)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Schoenus lanceus Thunb.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex ramosa Eckl. ex Kunth)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Schoenoxiphium sickmannianum Kunth)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Schoenoxiphium meyerianum Kunth)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Schoenoxiphium lanceum (Thunb.) Kük.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Schoenoxiphium capense Nees)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Kobresia lancea (Thunb.) T.Koyama)
To Plants of the World Online 
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Hemicarex meyeriana Benth.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Hemicarex sickmanniana (Kunth) Benth.)
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