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Cyperaceae taxon details

Carex phleoides Cav.

Utricle of Carex phleoides, Venturi 4018 (US)
Utricle of Carex phleoides, Venturi 4018 (US)

1677958 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1677958)

  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. Cyperoideae (Subfamily)
  12. Cariceae (Tribe)
  13. Carex (Genus)
  14. Carex subg. Uncinia (Subgenus)
  15. Carex sect. Uncinia (Section)
  16. Carex phleoides (Species)
accepted
Species
Uncinia cumingii Nees · unaccepted > nomen nudum
Uncinia lasiocarpa Steud. ex Boeckeler · unaccepted > heterotypic synonym
Uncinia longifolia Phil. ex C.B.Clarke · unaccepted > invalid name (published as synonym)
Uncinia phleoides f. longispica Franch. · unaccepted > heterotypic synonym
Uncinia phleoides var. brachytricha Speg. · unaccepted > heterotypic synonym

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Cavanilles, A. J. (1799). Icones et descriptiones plantarum, quae aut sponte in Hispania crescunt, aut in hortis hospitantur. 5., available online at https://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/viewer/9683/?offset=#page=1&viewer=picture&o=bookmark&n=0&q=
page(s): 40 [details] 
Description Plants perennial, caespitose from short rhizomes. Fertile culms ca. 30–150 cm, 0.8–2.1(2.5) mm wide at the middle,...  
Description Plants perennial, caespitose from short rhizomes. Fertile culms ca. 30–150 cm, 0.8–2.1(2.5) mm wide at the middle, usually shortly exceeding the leaves, trigonous, smooth. Leaves not rigid, herbaceous, widest ones 5.5–10 mm wide, flattish, margins and tip antrorsely scabrous. Inflorescences a solitary, androgynous spike, 7–15 cm, subclavate, rarely subclavate-cylindrical, (4)6–12(14) mm at its widest, densely flowered, with the utricles appressed, the staminate portion 0.6–1.6 cm, bractless or very rarely with an awn-shaped bract shorter or longer than the spike. Female glumes from the middle part of the spike 4.1–5.6 × 1.2–2 mm, shorter than the utricles, ovate to elliptic, rounded to acute, glabrous, coriaceous, stramineous, pale brown, or dark brown, usually the body uniformly colored or with the upper margin reddish brown tinged, often with a ciliolate hyaline margin, the sides faintly 3- to 9-veined, sometimes veinless. Utricles 5.5–7.3 × 0.8–1.5 mm, narrowly oblong, brown to reddish brown, appressed-scabrid distally, smooth (or nearly so) proximally, margins ciliate with hairs in fascicles, with 2 prominent lateral costae and sides veinless or faintly veined, attenuated at the top into an indistinct to vaguely conic beak, the empty portion between the achene top and the utricle tip 1–1.8 mm. Achenes 3.5–4.7 × 0.7–1.1 mm, narrowly oblong to nearly cylindrical, compressed-trigonous. Rachilla smooth, with the exserted portion 2.5–4.5 mm. [details]
Cyperaceae Working Group. (2025). [see How to cite]. Global Cyperaceae Database. Carex phleoides Cav.. Accessed at: https://www.cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1677958 on 2026-07-31
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Jiménez-Mejías, Pedro
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Márquez-Corro, José Ignacio

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Nomenclature

original description Cavanilles, A. J. (1799). Icones et descriptiones plantarum, quae aut sponte in Hispania crescunt, aut in hortis hospitantur. 5., available online at https://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/viewer/9683/?offset=#page=1&viewer=picture&o=bookmark&n=0&q=
page(s): 40 [details] 

original description (of Uncinia cumingii Nees) Nees von Esenbeck, C. G. D. (1834). Übersicht der Cyperaceen Gattungen. Linnea, 9: 273-306., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2019#page/276/mode/1up
page(s): 305 [details] 

original description (of Uncinia lasiocarpa Steud. ex Boeckeler) Böckeler, O. (1877). Die Cyperaceen des Königlichen Herbariums zu Berlin. <em>Linnaea.</em> 41: 145-356., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/123792#page/146/mode/1up
page(s): 349 [details] 

original description (of Uncinia longifolia Phil. ex C.B.Clarke) Clarke, C. B. (1883). On Hemicarex Benth., and its allies. <em>Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany.</em> 20: 374-403., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/236958#page/381/mode/1up
page(s): 399 [details] 

original description (of Uncinia phleoides var. brachytricha Speg.) Spegazzini, C. (1897). Primitiae Florae Chubutensis. <em>Revista de la Facultad de Agronomía y Veterinaria (Universidad Nacional de La Plata).</em> 3(32-33): 591-633.
page(s): 626 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Uncinia phleoides f. longispica Franch.) Franchet, A. (1889). Phanérogamie. In Mission scientifique du Cap Horn, 1882-1883, Tome V, Botanique, 315-400. Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Fils., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34800843
page(s): 378 [details] 

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

Taxonomy

taxonomy source Jiménez-Mejías, P.; Dorr, L. J. (2018). The quinquín sedges: Taxonomy of the Carex phleoides group (Cyperaceae). <em>Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden.</em> 103(4): 591-603., available online at https://doi.org/10.3417/2018125 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

taxonomy source Muñoz-Schüler, P.; García-Moro, P.; Márquez-Corro, J. I.; Penneckamp, D.; Sanz-Arnal, M.; Martín-Bravo, S.; Jiménez-Mejías, P. (2023). The genus Carex (Cyperaceae) in Chile: a general update of its knowledge, with an identification key [El género Carex (Cyperaceae) en Chile: una actualización general de su conocimiento, con una clave de identificación]. Gayana - Botanica, 80(2): 103-132., available online at https://doi.org/10.4067/S0717-66432023000200103 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Other

subsequent type designation Garilleti, R. (1993). Herbarium cavanillesianum. <em>Fontqueria.</em> 38: 1-248., available online at https://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/records/item/12245-herbarium-cavanillesianum [details] 

subsequent type designation Jiménez-Mejías, P.; Dorr, L. J. (2018). The quinquín sedges: Taxonomy of the Carex phleoides group (Cyperaceae). <em>Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden.</em> 103(4): 591-603., available online at https://doi.org/10.3417/2018125 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unknown type MA 475488, geounit Chile Central [details]
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Description Plants perennial, caespitose from short rhizomes. Fertile culms ca. 30–150 cm, 0.8–2.1(2.5) mm wide at the middle, usually shortly exceeding the leaves, trigonous, smooth. Leaves not rigid, herbaceous, widest ones 5.5–10 mm wide, flattish, margins and tip antrorsely scabrous. Inflorescences a solitary, androgynous spike, 7–15 cm, subclavate, rarely subclavate-cylindrical, (4)6–12(14) mm at its widest, densely flowered, with the utricles appressed, the staminate portion 0.6–1.6 cm, bractless or very rarely with an awn-shaped bract shorter or longer than the spike. Female glumes from the middle part of the spike 4.1–5.6 × 1.2–2 mm, shorter than the utricles, ovate to elliptic, rounded to acute, glabrous, coriaceous, stramineous, pale brown, or dark brown, usually the body uniformly colored or with the upper margin reddish brown tinged, often with a ciliolate hyaline margin, the sides faintly 3- to 9-veined, sometimes veinless. Utricles 5.5–7.3 × 0.8–1.5 mm, narrowly oblong, brown to reddish brown, appressed-scabrid distally, smooth (or nearly so) proximally, margins ciliate with hairs in fascicles, with 2 prominent lateral costae and sides veinless or faintly veined, attenuated at the top into an indistinct to vaguely conic beak, the empty portion between the achene top and the utricle tip 1–1.8 mm. Achenes 3.5–4.7 × 0.7–1.1 mm, narrowly oblong to nearly cylindrical, compressed-trigonous. Rachilla smooth, with the exserted portion 2.5–4.5 mm. [details]

Etymology note The species epithet means “resembling a Phleum” (Poaceae). [details]
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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications) (from synonym Uncinia longifolia Phil. ex C.B.Clarke)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (24 publications) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (58 publications) (from synonym Uncinia phleoides (Cav.) Pers.)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Uncinia lasiocarpa Steud. ex Boeckeler)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carex phleoides subsp. phleoides) (from synonym Carex phleoides subsp. phleoides)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carex phleoides) 
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Carex phleoides subsp. phleoides)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 4 proteins) 
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) 
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Agistron phleoides (Cav.) Raf.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Uncinia cumingii Nees)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Uncinia phleoides (Cav.) Pers.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex phleoides subsp. phleoides)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Uncinia lasiocarpa Steud. ex Boeckeler)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Uncinia longifolia Phil. ex C.B.Clarke)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Uncinia phleoides var. brachytricha Speg.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Uncinia phleoides f. longispica Franch.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Uncinia phleoides f. longispica Franch.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex phleoides subsp. phleoides)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Uncinia phleoides var. brachytricha Speg.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Agistron phleoides (Cav.) Raf.)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Uncinia cumingii Nees)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Uncinia lasiocarpa Steud. ex Boeckeler)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Uncinia longifolia Phil. ex C.B.Clarke)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Uncinia phleoides (Cav.) Pers.)
To Plants of the World Online 
To Real Jardín Botánico-CSIC (Carex phleoides MA-01-00475488 lectotype 1) 
To Real Jardín Botánico-CSIC (Carex phleoides MA-01-00475489 type 1) 
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