Cyperaceae name details
Kobresia filicina (C.B.Clarke) C.B.Clarke
1684424 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1684424)
unaccepted
Species
Kobresia Willd. accepted as Carex L.
- Variety Kobresia filicina var. filicina (uncertain > unassessed)
- Variety Kobresia filicina var. subfilicinoides P.C.Li accepted as Carex filispica S.R.Zhang
terrestrial
(of Hemicarex filicina 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): 384 [details]
page(s): 384 [details]
Description Rhizomes short. Basal sheaths persistent, brown, reddish brown, or yellowish brown, dull, not fibrillose, retaining a few...
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Fl. Brit. India [J. D. Hooker] 6(20): 696. 1894 [Apr 1894] to Fl....
Description Rhizomes short. Basal sheaths persistent, brown, reddish brown, or yellowish brown, dull, not fibrillose, retaining a few dried leaf blades. Culms tufted, flaccid or slightly stiff, obtusely trigonous, 8-35 cm tall, slender, 0.4-0.8 mm in diam. Leaves basal, slightly shorter than to exceeding culms; blade flat or partly folded, 0.6-2(-3) mm wide, usually flaccid, midrib distinct abaxially. Inflorescence spicate, yellowish green or partly brown, linear or linear-oblong, 1-4(-5) × 0.1-0.3 cm, dense above, basal spikelets usually slightly distant; a few terminal spikelets male, lower ones bisexual; lowest involucral bract glumelike, apex aristate, arista to 8 mm. Bisexual spikelets usually 2-flowered, basal one female, distal one male, male flower with 1 or 2(or 3) stamens. Glumes yellowish brown laterally, with green midvein, ovate-oblong, 2-3 (excluding arista) × 0.5-1 mm, midvein broad, 3-ribbed, margin hyaline, apex aristate or acute, arista to 2 mm. Prophylls yellowish green or yellowish brown with ferruginous spots and lines, oblong or linear-oblong, 2-2.6 × 0.5-0.7 mm, membranous, 2-keeled (sometimes obscurely), keels scabrid, margins open to middle part or below, apex rounded. Nutlets narrowly oblong, trigonous, 1.9-2.4 (excluding beak) × ca. 0.6 mm, beak ca. 0.5 mm, exserted from prophylls when mature, shortly stipitate, stipe ca. 0.2 mm. Stigmas 3, short. [details]
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Fl. Brit. India [J. D. Hooker] 6(20): 696. 1894 [Apr 1894] to Fl....
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Fl. Brit. India [J. D. Hooker] 6(20): 696. 1894 [Apr 1894] to Fl. Brit. India 6: 696 (1894), 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. Kobresia filicina (C.B.Clarke) C.B.Clarke. Accessed at: https://www.cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1684424 on 2026-06-06
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Hemicarex filicina 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): 384 [details]
basis of record Plants of the World Online (POWO). , available online at https://powo.science.kew.org/ [details]
new combination reference Clarke, C. B. (1894). Cyperaceae. <em>Flora of British India.</em> 6(20): 587-748., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/356279#page/591/mode/1up
page(s): 696 [details]
page(s): 384 [details]
basis of record Plants of the World Online (POWO). , available online at https://powo.science.kew.org/ [details]
new combination reference Clarke, C. B. (1894). Cyperaceae. <em>Flora of British India.</em> 6(20): 587-748., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/356279#page/591/mode/1up
page(s): 696 [details]
From editor or global species database
Description Rhizomes short. Basal sheaths persistent, brown, reddish brown, or yellowish brown, dull, not fibrillose, retaining a few dried leaf blades. Culms tufted, flaccid or slightly stiff, obtusely trigonous, 8-35 cm tall, slender, 0.4-0.8 mm in diam. Leaves basal, slightly shorter than to exceeding culms; blade flat or partly folded, 0.6-2(-3) mm wide, usually flaccid, midrib distinct abaxially. Inflorescence spicate, yellowish green or partly brown, linear or linear-oblong, 1-4(-5) × 0.1-0.3 cm, dense above, basal spikelets usually slightly distant; a few terminal spikelets male, lower ones bisexual; lowest involucral bract glumelike, apex aristate, arista to 8 mm. Bisexual spikelets usually 2-flowered, basal one female, distal one male, male flower with 1 or 2(or 3) stamens. Glumes yellowish brown laterally, with green midvein, ovate-oblong, 2-3 (excluding arista) × 0.5-1 mm, midvein broad, 3-ribbed, margin hyaline, apex aristate or acute, arista to 2 mm. Prophylls yellowish green or yellowish brown with ferruginous spots and lines, oblong or linear-oblong, 2-2.6 × 0.5-0.7 mm, membranous, 2-keeled (sometimes obscurely), keels scabrid, margins open to middle part or below, apex rounded. Nutlets narrowly oblong, trigonous, 1.9-2.4 (excluding beak) × ca. 0.6 mm, beak ca. 0.5 mm, exserted from prophylls when mature, shortly stipitate, stipe ca. 0.2 mm. Stigmas 3, short. [details]Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Fl. Brit. India [J. D. Hooker] 6(20): 696. 1894 [Apr 1894] to Fl. Brit. India 6: 696 (1894), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be found in [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To Plants of the World Online
To Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Kobresia filicina K000794696 type 1)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To Plants of the World Online
To Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Kobresia filicina K000794696 type 1)
From editor or global species database
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