Carex gibba Wahlenb.

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Cyperaceae > Carex

Characteristics

Rhizome short. Culms tufted, 20-60 cm tall, erect, obtusely trigonous, smooth, clothed at base with brown sheaths disintegrating into fibers. Leaves longer than or equaling culm, blades linear, 3-4 mm wide, flat, rather soft. Involucral bracts leaflike, longer than inflorescence. Spicate inflorescence rather dense above, interrupted below, sometimes branched in lowest spike, 3-8 cm; spikes gynaecandrous, ovate or oblong, 5-12 × 3-5 mm, densely flowered. Female glumes whitish, subcordate, green 3-veined costa excurrent into an awn 0.7-1 mm, apex subcuneate. Utricles greenish, longer than glume, suborbicular or broadly ovate, plano-convex, 3.2-3.5 × ca. 2 mm, membranous, smooth, nerveless, base contracted, cuneate, margins winged, scabrous above, apex abruptly contracted into a short beak, orifice 2-toothed. Nutlets greenish, tightly enveloped, broadly ovoid, biconvex, ca. 2.2 × 1.5 mm, apex with a discoid appendage; stigmas 3. Fl. and fr. Apr-Aug.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
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Mature height (meter) 0.2 - 0.6
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-11

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Uses medicinal
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Images

Carex gibba unspecified picture

Distribution

Carex gibba world distribution map, present in China, Japan, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:299924-1
WFO ID wfo-0000346979
COL ID 5XBN7
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Carex leucocarpa Carex gibba Carex anomala Carex pteroloma Carex alta var. brevior