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Cyperaceae taxon details

Carex lurida Wahlenb.

To New York Botanical Garden Steere Herbarium (Carex_tentaculata_NY11377_type_1)
To New York Botanical Garden Steere Herbarium (Carex_tentaculata_NY11377_type_1)

1677570  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1677570)

  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. HirtaClade (Section)
  15. Carex lurida (Species)
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Species
Carex lurida var. parvula (Paine) Kük. · unaccepted > later homonym
Carex purshii Olney · unaccepted
Carex rostrata Muhl. ex Willd. · unaccepted > later homonym (non Carex rostrata Stokes, Bot....)  
non Carex rostrata Stokes, Bot. Arr. Brit. Pl., ed. 2. 2: 1059 (1787).

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  1. Forma Carex lurida f. parvula (Paine) D.S.Carp. accepted as Carex lurida Wahlenb.
  2. Variety Carex lurida var. altior Peck accepted as Carex lurida Wahlenb.
  3. Variety Carex lurida var. divergens L.H.Bailey accepted as Carex bella-villa Dewey accepted as Carex lupulina Muhl. ex Willd. (unaccepted > misapplication)
  4. Variety Carex lurida var. flaccida L.H.Bailey accepted as Carex lurida Wahlenb.
  5. Variety Carex lurida var. gracilis (Boott) L.H.Bailey accepted as Carex baileyi Britton
  6. Variety Carex lurida var. gracilis (Boott) Kük. accepted as Carex baileyi Britton
  7. Variety Carex lurida var. parvula (Paine) L.H.Bailey accepted as Carex lurida Wahlenb.
  8. Variety Carex lurida var. parvula (Paine) Kük. accepted as Carex lurida var. parvula (Paine) L.H.Bailey accepted as Carex lurida Wahlenb. (unaccepted > later homonym)
  9. Variety Carex lurida var. polystachya (Schwein. & Torr.) L.H.Bailey accepted as Carex lupuliformis Sartwell ex Dewey (unaccepted > misapplication, This combination results from a misapplication of the name Carex lurida Wahlenberg by L. H Bailey, who believed for a while that Carex lupulina Muhl. ex Willd was a junior synonym of Carex lurida.)
terrestrial
Wahlenberg, G. (1803). Inledning til Caricographien. <em>Kongl. Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar.</em> 24: 138-170., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46986891
page(s): 153 [details] 
Description Plants densely to loosely cespitose; rhizomes short, no more than 10 cm. Culms sharply trigonous in cross section,...  
Description Plants densely to loosely cespitose; rhizomes short, no more than 10 cm. Culms sharply trigonous in cross section, (15–)25–95(–110) cm, scabrous-angled distally. Leaves: basal sheaths reddish purple; ligules as wide to slightly longer than wide; blades dark green, flat to W-shaped, widest leaves (4–)4.5–11.5(–13) mm wide, glabrous. Inflorescences 2.7–18 cm; proximal bract 9–45 cm, exceeding inflorescence; proximal 1–3(–4) spikes pistillate, erect or the proximal often spreading, (12–)15–22 mm thick, if spikes less than 15 mm thick, then usually less than 2.5 times as long as wide; terminal 1 spike staminate. Pistillate scales narrowly oblong, 3.4–11.2 × 0.5–1.1 mm, as long as or shorter than perigynia, margins often ciliate, apex truncate to retuse, erose, prolonged to scabrous awn. Staminate scales with distinct, scabrous awn, sometimes ciliate-margined. Perigynia spreading, strongly 7–12-veined, veins separate nearly to beak apex, broadly ovate, (6–)6.5–10.8 × (1.8–)2–3.5(–4.2), apex contracted; beak 2.5–5.9 mm, 0.7–0.9 length of body, bidentate, smooth, teeth straight, to 0.2–0.8 mm. Stigmas 3. Achenes yellow to brown, trigonous, papillose. [details]

Nomenclature Nine years after Wahlenberg had published his Carex lurida, he stated (Fl. Lapp. 250) that it is the same as Schkuhr's...  
Nomenclature Nine years after Wahlenberg had published his Carex lurida, he stated (Fl. Lapp. 250) that it is the same as Schkuhr's figure of C. lupulina, Muhl. [L. H. Bailey] therefore used his name for C. lupulina in [his] Synopsis (Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci. xxii. 63,1886). In the Riksmuseum there are two sheets labelled C. lurida by Wahlenberg. One is from Hultgren, the original collector, and from this the description [of C. lurida] is made. This plant is the C. tentaculata of Muhl. ! The other sheet, evidently a later acquisition, is from Muhlenberg, and is C. lupulina Muhl., var. pedunculata, Dewey. It is evident that Wahlenberg confounded the two species. [details]

Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Updated namepublishedIn from Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Nya Handl. 24: 153 1803 to Kongl. Vetensk....  
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Updated namepublishedIn from Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Nya Handl. 24: 153 1803 to Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Nya Handl. (1803) 153. , information provided by Alan E. on email Oct. 12 2020 More details could be found in [details]
Cyperaceae Working Group. (2025). [see How to cite]. Global Cyperaceae Database. Carex lurida Wahlenb.. Accessed at: https://www.cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1677570 on 2026-05-11
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Nomenclature

original description Wahlenberg, G. (1803). Inledning til Caricographien. <em>Kongl. Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar.</em> 24: 138-170., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46986891
page(s): 153 [details] 

original description (of Carex rostrata Muhl. ex Willd.) Willdenow, K. L. (1805). Species plantarum. Tomus 4, pars 1, pp. 1-629., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/670989#page/1/mode/1up
page(s): 282 [details] 

original description (of Carex tentaculata Muhl. ex Willd.) Willdenow, K. L. (1805). Species plantarum. Tomus 4, pars 1, pp. 1-629., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/670989#page/1/mode/1up
page(s): 266 [details] 

original description (of Carex lurida var. exudans L.H.Bailey ex Britton & A.Br.) Britton, N. L. & Brown, A. (1896). An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Vol. I., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11287153#page/7/mode/1up, https://archive.org/details/illustratedflo1896brit/page/234/mode/2up
page(s): 299; note: Link: https://archive.org/details/illustratedflo1896brit/page/298/mode/2up [details] 

original description (of Carex lurida var. flaccida L.H.Bailey) 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): 73 [details] 

original description (of Carex tentaculata var. altior Boott) Boott, F. M. B. (1860). Illustrations of the Genus Carex. 2., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58671180
page(s): 94 [details] 

original description (of Carex tentaculata var. parvula Paine) Paine, J. A. (1865). Catalogue of plants found in Oneida County and vicinity. <em>Annual Report of the Regents of the University on the condition of the State Cabinet of Natural History, and the historical and antiquarian collection annexed thereto.</em> v. 18. Appendix C. : 1-140., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39050729
page(s): 105 [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 
   

Syntype (of Carex rostrata Muhl. ex Willd.) B -W 17237 -01 0, geounit Pennsylvania [details]
Syntype (of Carex rostrata Muhl. ex Willd.) HAL 0103645, geounit Pennsylvania [details]
Syntype (of Carex rostrata Muhl. ex Willd.) HAL 0103646, geounit Pennsylvania [details]
Syntype (of Carex tentaculata Muhl. ex Willd.) B -W 17209010, geounit Pennsylvania [details]
Syntype (of Carex tentaculata Muhl. ex Willd.) HAL 0103646, geounit Pennsylvania [details]
Syntype (of Carex tentaculata var. parvula Paine) , geounit New York [details]
Unknown type (of Carex rostrata Muhl. ex Willd.) PH 00037114, geounit Pennsylvania [details]
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Description Plants densely to loosely cespitose; rhizomes short, no more than 10 cm. Culms sharply trigonous in cross section, (15–)25–95(–110) cm, scabrous-angled distally. Leaves: basal sheaths reddish purple; ligules as wide to slightly longer than wide; blades dark green, flat to W-shaped, widest leaves (4–)4.5–11.5(–13) mm wide, glabrous. Inflorescences 2.7–18 cm; proximal bract 9–45 cm, exceeding inflorescence; proximal 1–3(–4) spikes pistillate, erect or the proximal often spreading, (12–)15–22 mm thick, if spikes less than 15 mm thick, then usually less than 2.5 times as long as wide; terminal 1 spike staminate. Pistillate scales narrowly oblong, 3.4–11.2 × 0.5–1.1 mm, as long as or shorter than perigynia, margins often ciliate, apex truncate to retuse, erose, prolonged to scabrous awn. Staminate scales with distinct, scabrous awn, sometimes ciliate-margined. Perigynia spreading, strongly 7–12-veined, veins separate nearly to beak apex, broadly ovate, (6–)6.5–10.8 × (1.8–)2–3.5(–4.2), apex contracted; beak 2.5–5.9 mm, 0.7–0.9 length of body, bidentate, smooth, teeth straight, to 0.2–0.8 mm. Stigmas 3. Achenes yellow to brown, trigonous, papillose. [details]

Nomenclature Nine years after Wahlenberg had published his Carex lurida, he stated (Fl. Lapp. 250) that it is the same as Schkuhr's figure of C. lupulina, Muhl. [L. H. Bailey] therefore used his name for C. lupulina in [his] Synopsis (Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci. xxii. 63,1886). In the Riksmuseum there are two sheets labelled C. lurida by Wahlenberg. One is from Hultgren, the original collector, and from this the description [of C. lurida] is made. This plant is the C. tentaculata of Muhl. ! The other sheet, evidently a later acquisition, is from Muhlenberg, and is C. lupulina Muhl., var. pedunculata, Dewey. It is evident that Wahlenberg confounded the two species. [details]

Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Updated namepublishedIn from Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Nya Handl. 24: 153 1803 to Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Nya Handl. (1803) 153. , information provided by Alan E. on email Oct. 12 2020 More details could be found in [details]
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German Langspitziges Riedgras [from synonym]Langspitzige Segge [from synonym]Geschnäbeltes Riedgras [from synonym]Geschnäbelte Segge [from synonym]  [details]
Original specimen at B (from synonym Carex rostrata Muhl. ex Willd.)
Potential type at NY (NY 02289363) (from synonym Carex lurida var. exudans L.H.Bailey ex Britton & A.Br.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Carex tentaculata var. flaccida (L.H.Bailey) Howe)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (131 publications) (from synonym Carex tentaculata Muhl. ex Willd.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Carex lurida var. flaccida L.H.Bailey)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Carex beyrichiana Boeckeler)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (273 publications) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Carex purshii Olney)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Carex lurida var. parvula (Paine) L.H.Bailey)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Carex lurida var. parvula (Paine) Kük.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (789 publications) (from synonym Carex rostrata Muhl. ex Willd.)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carex lurida) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carex rostrata) (from synonym Carex rostrata Muhl. ex Willd.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex purshii Olney)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex rostrata Muhl. ex Willd.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex beyrichiana Boeckeler)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) 
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex tentaculata var. altior Boott)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex tentaculata var. parvula Paine)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex tentaculata Muhl. ex Willd.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex lurida var. exudans L.H.Bailey ex Britton & A.Br.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex lurida var. flaccida L.H.Bailey)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex tentaculata var. flaccida (L.H.Bailey) Howe)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex lurida f. parvula (Paine) D.S.Carp.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex lurida var. altior Peck)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex tentaculata var. rostrata Pursh)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex lurida var. parvula (Paine) L.H.Bailey)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern) 
To New York Botanical Garden Steere Herbarium (Carex_tentaculata_NY11377_type_1) (from synonym Carex tentaculata var. rostrata Pursh)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex tentaculata var. flaccida (L.H.Bailey) Howe)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex lurida var. altior Peck)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex lurida f. parvula (Paine) D.S.Carp.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex beyrichiana Boeckeler)
To Plants of the World Online 
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex purshii Olney)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex rostrata Muhl. ex Willd.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex tentaculata Muhl. ex Willd.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex lurida var. flaccida L.H.Bailey)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex lurida var. exudans L.H.Bailey ex Britton & A.Br.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex tentaculata var. rostrata Pursh)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex tentaculata var. parvula Paine)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex tentaculata var. altior Boott)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex lurida var. parvula (Paine) L.H.Bailey)
To The Plant List (from synonym Carex lurida var. parvula (Paine) Kük.)
Type in Berlin (BW17209010) (from synonym Carex tentaculata Muhl. ex Willd.)
Type material from Muhlenberg at B (BW17209010) (from synonym Carex tentaculata var. rostrata Pursh)
From editor or global species database
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