Cyperaceae taxon details
Carex galeottiana C.A.Mey.
1693890 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1693890)
accepted
Species
terrestrial
Meyer, C.A. (1842). <em>Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique.</em> 9(2)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15754777 [details]
Lectotype P, geounit Veracruz
Lectotype P, geounit Veracruz [details]
Description Culms 45–85 cm × 2–3 mm, scabrous. Leaves 30–80(135) cm × 6.2–8.0 mm largest ones, longer than the culms,...
Distribution It is found in the Sierra Madre Oriental (state of Veracruz), and in the Sierra Madre del Sur (state of Oaxaca).
Etymology In reference to the French-Belgian botanist and geologist H. Galeotti that collected the type specimen and worked for more...
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Bull. Acad. Brux. ix. (1842) II. 248. to Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci....
Description Culms 45–85 cm × 2–3 mm, scabrous. Leaves 30–80(135) cm × 6.2–8.0 mm largest ones, longer than the culms, papillose below, oldest orangey-brownish at the base. Inflorescence racemose or lax panicle, 11.0–26.2 cm long, with 15–25 androgynous spikes, erect, spreading or dropping. Proximal-most bract 23.0–28.8(50.0) cm × 3–4 mm, longer than the inflorescence. Spikes 2.3–8.0 cm × 6.8–9.1 mm, oblong to linear, densely flowered, the distal 1/5–1/2 staminate, unbranched, with about 80–>200 female flowers, peduncles smooth or scabrous, mostly shorter or, the lowest, longer than the spikes. Pistillate glumes 3.6–4.7 × 0.9–1.8 mm, narrowly oblong to lanceolate, gradually acute, brown to dark purple to dull black with a pale stra-mineous middle longitudinal strip and apex, with a scabrous awn, hyaline margins narrow or absent. Stigmas 3. Utricles 2.8–4.1 × 0.9–1.6 mm, shorter or equaling the glumes, elliptic, stramineous to brown, ripening dark purple to almost black, lat-eral nerves conspicuous, the other nerves more or less evident, obtusely trigonous to compressed biconvex, constricted at the apex into a 0.3–0.7 mm long straight beak, shortly bidentate or truncate, teeth 0.1–0.2 mm long. Nutlets 1.6–2.3 × 0.9–1.5 mm, elliptic to obovate; style strongly lignified, leaving a cylindrical, 0.2 mm long remnant at the apex of the nutlet. [details]
Distribution It is found in the Sierra Madre Oriental (state of Veracruz), and in the Sierra Madre del Sur (state of Oaxaca).
Distribution It is found in the Sierra Madre Oriental (state of Veracruz), and in the Sierra Madre del Sur (state of Oaxaca). [details]
Etymology In reference to the French-Belgian botanist and geologist H. Galeotti that collected the type specimen and worked for more...
Etymology In reference to the French-Belgian botanist and geologist H. Galeotti that collected the type specimen and worked for more than a decade discovering new species (specially from the family Cactaceae) in Mexico. [details]
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Bull. Acad. Brux. ix. (1842) II. 248. to Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci....
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Bull. Acad. Brux. ix. (1842) II. 248. to Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. Bruxelles 9(2): 248 (1842), 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. Carex galeottiana C.A.Mey.. Accessed at: https://www.cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1693890 on 2025-12-14
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Meyer, C.A. (1842). <em>Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique.</em> 9(2)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15754777 [details]
basis of record Plants of the World Online (POWO). , available online at https://powo.science.kew.org/ [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
Lectotype P, geounit Veracruz [details]
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Description Culms 45–85 cm × 2–3 mm, scabrous. Leaves 30–80(135) cm × 6.2–8.0 mm largest ones, longer than the culms, papillose below, oldest orangey-brownish at the base. Inflorescence racemose or lax panicle, 11.0–26.2 cm long, with 15–25 androgynous spikes, erect, spreading or dropping. Proximal-most bract 23.0–28.8(50.0) cm × 3–4 mm, longer than the inflorescence. Spikes 2.3–8.0 cm × 6.8–9.1 mm, oblong to linear, densely flowered, the distal 1/5–1/2 staminate, unbranched, with about 80–>200 female flowers, peduncles smooth or scabrous, mostly shorter or, the lowest, longer than the spikes. Pistillate glumes 3.6–4.7 × 0.9–1.8 mm, narrowly oblong to lanceolate, gradually acute, brown to dark purple to dull black with a pale stra-mineous middle longitudinal strip and apex, with a scabrous awn, hyaline margins narrow or absent. Stigmas 3. Utricles 2.8–4.1 × 0.9–1.6 mm, shorter or equaling the glumes, elliptic, stramineous to brown, ripening dark purple to almost black, lat-eral nerves conspicuous, the other nerves more or less evident, obtusely trigonous to compressed biconvex, constricted at the apex into a 0.3–0.7 mm long straight beak, shortly bidentate or truncate, teeth 0.1–0.2 mm long. Nutlets 1.6–2.3 × 0.9–1.5 mm, elliptic to obovate; style strongly lignified, leaving a cylindrical, 0.2 mm long remnant at the apex of the nutlet. [details]Distribution It is found in the Sierra Madre Oriental (state of Veracruz), and in the Sierra Madre del Sur (state of Oaxaca). [details]
Etymology In reference to the French-Belgian botanist and geologist H. Galeotti that collected the type specimen and worked for more than a decade discovering new species (specially from the family Cactaceae) in Mexico. [details]
Habitat Pinus and Quercus dominated forests. 2800–3850 m. [details]
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Bull. Acad. Brux. ix. (1842) II. 248. to Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. Bruxelles 9(2): 248 (1842), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be found in [details]
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To Plants of the World Online
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To Plants of the World Online
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