Carex appendiculata Kük.

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Cyperaceae > Carex

Characteristics

Rhizome short, tussock-forming. Culms tufted, 30-75 cm tall, acutely trigonous, slender, scabrous, clothed at base with reddish brown, slightly lustrous, bladeless sheaths disintegrating into fibers. Leaves subequaling culm, blades linear, ca. 2 mm wide, flat, margins scabrous. Lowest involucral bract leaflike, equaling or longer than inflorescence, sheathless. Spikes 3-5; upper 1 or 2 spikes male, narrowly cylindric, 0.8-2.5 cm, terminal spike with peduncle; remaining spikes female, occasionally some becoming androgynous and bearing several male flowers at apex, oblong to narrowly cylindric, 10-30 × 3-4 mm, densely many flowered, with short peduncles or subsessile. Female glumes purple-black, narrowly elliptic, 1.5-2 mm, green 1-3-veined at middle, scabrous on veins, margins narrowly white hyaline, apex obtuse. Utricles light green, longer than and much broader than glume, elliptic, rarely obovate or suborbicular, plano-convex, (1.8-)2.2-3 mm, densely minutely papillose, veined, apex abruptly contracted into a short beak, orifice emarginate. Nutlets tightly enveloped, broadly obovate or obovate, plano-convex, ca. 1.5 mm; style base not thickened; stigmas 2. Fl. and fr. Jun-Jul.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
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Mature height (meter) 0.3 - 0.75
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Hardiness (USDA) 5-10

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Distribution

Carex appendiculata world distribution map, present in Chile, China, Montenegro, and Korea (Democratic People's Republic of)

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:298602-1
WFO ID wfo-0000344480
COL ID R83Z
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
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Synonyms

Carex appendiculata Carex spongiifolia Carex acuta var. appendiculata Carex gaudichaudiana subsp. appendiculata Carex gaudichaudiana var. humilior Carex thunbergii var. appendiculata Carex gaudichaudiana var. appendiculata Carex appendiculata var. appendiculata