Cyperaceae taxon details
Carex punicola D.B.Poind., Jim.Mejías & M.Escudero
1678083 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1678083)
accepted
Species
Carex hypsipedos auct. · unaccepted > misapplication
Carex phalaroides var. parvula R.Gross · unaccepted
Carex umbellata var. depressa Kük. · unaccepted
terrestrial
(of Carex umbellata var. depressa Kük.) Kükenthal, G. (1909). Cyperaceae-Caricoidae. <em>Das Pflanzenreich: regni vegetabilis conspectus.</em> 38, 4(20)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31618144
page(s): 453 [details]
page(s): 453 [details]
Holotype B 100244338, geounit Peru
Holotype B 100244338, geounit Peru [details]
Description Plants small, cespitose. Fertile culms 1–4 cm tall, erect or more or less curved, shorter than or equaling leaves. Basal...
Etymology From “puna”, local denomination of the high Andean grasslands from Chile and Argentina to
Peru.
Description Plants small, cespitose. Fertile culms 1–4 cm tall, erect or more or less curved, shorter than or equaling leaves. Basal sheaths scale-like, brown to slightly reddish-tinged, more or less fibrillose. Leaves of flowering shoots 3–7, subcoriaceous, erect or slightly curved, mostly exceeding culms; blades 10–55 × 0.8–2.5 mm, flat, margins smooth or scabrous (especially distally); leaf sheaths glabrous, pale brown; ligules short, <2 mm long, slightly shorter than long, apex rounded. Vegetative shoots 2.5–7 cm tall; leaves 5–11, similar to those of fertile culms; pseudoculms 1–2 cm tall. Inflorescences (8–)10–30 mm long, with 1–3 cauline and 1–2 basal pseudospikelets, these latter emerging from sheathes on short to long peduncles, usually simple, rarely pseudospikelets branching at base into an additional smaller pseudospikelet, all approximate, often overlapping, the terminal one staminate, very rarely with 1 or 2 perigynia at its base, usually elevated, the lateral ones pistillate; bracts shorter or longer than the inflorescence, sheathless, leaf-like in the lowermost pseudospikelets to setaceous or scale-like in the uppermost ones, 4–20(–45) × 0.8–1.8 mm. Terminal pseudospikelets 6.5–8 × 2–3.5 mm wide, shortly oblong, lateral pseudospikelets 4–6.5 × 2.8–5 mm, 3–8-flowered, all erect, on peduncles 0.5–15(–25) mm, stiff, slightly scabrous, rarely smooth; when branched, the additional pseudospikelet on a 0.5–2 mm peduncle. Staminate scales 3.5–7 × 1.2–2.0 mm, lanceolate to narrowly oblong, acuminate, glabrous, sometimes sparingly scaberulent on the veins distally, reddish brown, with narrow hyaline margins and 3–5-nerved stramineous to reddish-green middle strip. Pistillate scales 2.6–4.8 × 1.3–1.7 mm, lanceolate, acuminate or shortly awned, equaling or slightly longer and wider than the perigynia (but not concealing them), reddish brown or hyaline, with a 3–5-veined greenish middle portion. Style jointed with achene; stigmas 3. Anthers 3, ca. 1.5 mm long. Perigynia 2.4–3.3 × 1.2–1.6 mm, oblong-obovoid or elliptical, abruptly contracted into a beak at the apex and attenuated into a substipitate base, glabrate or shortly pubescent, especially distally, membranaceous, dull green, greenish-brown or stramineous, sometimes reddish-tinged near the beak, with 2 prominent nerves and 6–10 additional faint veins; beak 0.4–0.7 mm long, scaberulent, shallowly bidentate, teeth about 0.2 mm long. Achenes 1.8–2.2 × 1.1–1.5 mm, oblong-obovoid, trigonous, with blunt angles, the sides convex (at least distally), tapering at base, with the style-base persistent as a 0.1 mm mucro at apex, yellowish brown, very closely enveloped by the perigynium. [details]
Etymology From “puna”, local denomination of the high Andean grasslands from Chile and Argentina to
Peru.
Etymology From “puna”, local denomination of the high Andean grasslands from Chile and Argentina to
Peru. [details]
Peru. [details]
Cyperaceae Working Group. (2026). [see How to cite]. Global Cyperaceae Database. Carex punicola D.B.Poind., Jim.Mejías & M.Escudero. Accessed at: https://www.cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1678083 on 2026-05-14
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Carex umbellata var. depressa Kük.) Kükenthal, G. (1909). Cyperaceae-Caricoidae. <em>Das Pflanzenreich: regni vegetabilis conspectus.</em> 38, 4(20)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31618144
page(s): 453 [details]
replacement name source Poindexter, D. B.; Escudero, M.; Jiménez-Mejías, P. (2017). A clarification of the name Carex hypsipedos C.B.Clarke (Cyperaceae) and a new name for the South American Carex section Acrocystis taxon. <em>Phytotaxa.</em> 291(4): 287-293., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.291.4.6 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 453 [details]
replacement name source Poindexter, D. B.; Escudero, M.; Jiménez-Mejías, P. (2017). A clarification of the name Carex hypsipedos C.B.Clarke (Cyperaceae) and a new name for the South American Carex section Acrocystis taxon. <em>Phytotaxa.</em> 291(4): 287-293., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.291.4.6 [details] Available for editors
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taxonomy source
Jiménez-Mejías, P.; Morales-Alonso, A.; Oleas, N. H.; Sánchez, E.; Martín-Bravo, S.; Masa-Iranzo, I.; Meseguer, A. S. (2023). New relevant chorological and conservation data on Carex (Cyperaceae) and Hypericum (Hypericaceae) from Ecuador. Biodiversity Data Journal, 11: e99603., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.E99603 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype B 100244338, geounit Peru [details]
From editor or global species database
Description Plants small, cespitose. Fertile culms 1–4 cm tall, erect or more or less curved, shorter than or equaling leaves. Basal sheaths scale-like, brown to slightly reddish-tinged, more or less fibrillose. Leaves of flowering shoots 3–7, subcoriaceous, erect or slightly curved, mostly exceeding culms; blades 10–55 × 0.8–2.5 mm, flat, margins smooth or scabrous (especially distally); leaf sheaths glabrous, pale brown; ligules short, <2 mm long, slightly shorter than long, apex rounded. Vegetative shoots 2.5–7 cm tall; leaves 5–11, similar to those of fertile culms; pseudoculms 1–2 cm tall. Inflorescences (8–)10–30 mm long, with 1–3 cauline and 1–2 basal pseudospikelets, these latter emerging from sheathes on short to long peduncles, usually simple, rarely pseudospikelets branching at base into an additional smaller pseudospikelet, all approximate, often overlapping, the terminal one staminate, very rarely with 1 or 2 perigynia at its base, usually elevated, the lateral ones pistillate; bracts shorter or longer than the inflorescence, sheathless, leaf-like in the lowermost pseudospikelets to setaceous or scale-like in the uppermost ones, 4–20(–45) × 0.8–1.8 mm. Terminal pseudospikelets 6.5–8 × 2–3.5 mm wide, shortly oblong, lateral pseudospikelets 4–6.5 × 2.8–5 mm, 3–8-flowered, all erect, on peduncles 0.5–15(–25) mm, stiff, slightly scabrous, rarely smooth; when branched, the additional pseudospikelet on a 0.5–2 mm peduncle. Staminate scales 3.5–7 × 1.2–2.0 mm, lanceolate to narrowly oblong, acuminate, glabrous, sometimes sparingly scaberulent on the veins distally, reddish brown, with narrow hyaline margins and 3–5-nerved stramineous to reddish-green middle strip. Pistillate scales 2.6–4.8 × 1.3–1.7 mm, lanceolate, acuminate or shortly awned, equaling or slightly longer and wider than the perigynia (but not concealing them), reddish brown or hyaline, with a 3–5-veined greenish middle portion. Style jointed with achene; stigmas 3. Anthers 3, ca. 1.5 mm long. Perigynia 2.4–3.3 × 1.2–1.6 mm, oblong-obovoid or elliptical, abruptly contracted into a beak at the apex and attenuated into a substipitate base, glabrate or shortly pubescent, especially distally, membranaceous, dull green, greenish-brown or stramineous, sometimes reddish-tinged near the beak, with 2 prominent nerves and 6–10 additional faint veins; beak 0.4–0.7 mm long, scaberulent, shallowly bidentate, teeth about 0.2 mm long. Achenes 1.8–2.2 × 1.1–1.5 mm, oblong-obovoid, trigonous, with blunt angles, the sides convex (at least distally), tapering at base, with the style-base persistent as a 0.1 mm mucro at apex, yellowish brown, very closely enveloped by the perigynium. [details]Etymology From “puna”, local denomination of the high Andean grasslands from Chile and Argentina to
Peru. [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Carex phalaroides var. parvula R.Gross)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex umbellata var. depressa Kük.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex phalaroides var. parvula R.Gross)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex phalaroides var. parvula R.Gross)
To Plants of the World Online
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex umbellata var. depressa Kük.)
To US Herbarium (Carex phalaroides parvula US1545831 type 1) (from synonym Carex phalaroides var. parvula R.Gross)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Carex phalaroides var. parvula R.Gross)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex umbellata var. depressa Kük.)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex phalaroides var. parvula R.Gross)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex phalaroides var. parvula R.Gross)
To Plants of the World Online
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex umbellata var. depressa Kük.)
To US Herbarium (Carex phalaroides parvula US1545831 type 1) (from synonym Carex phalaroides var. parvula R.Gross)
