Carex thibetica Franch.

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Cyperaceae > Carex

Characteristics

Rhizome thick, woody, rigid. Culms lateral, 35-50 cm tall, obtusely trigonous, smooth, clothed at base with brown bladeless sheaths. Leaves surpassing culm, blades pale green, broadly linear, 5-17 mm wide, leathery, upper margins scabrous, apex acuminate. Involucral bracts shortly bladed, shorter than subtending spike, long sheathing. Spikes 4-6; terminal spike male, narrowly cylindric, 3-6 cm, pedunculate; lateral spikes androgynous, male part usually equaling female part, cylindric, 4-7 cm, densely flowered, with slender, scabrous peduncles. Female glumes light yellow-brown, ovate-lanceolate, green 3-veined costa excurrent into a mucro. Utricles yellow-brown, longer than glume, obovate, subinflated trigonous, 5-6 mm (including beak), membranous, glabrous or sparsely hispid, many veined, base gradually narrowed, apex abruptly contracted into a cylindric long beak, beak slightly curved, deeply 2-lobed at orifice. Nutlets castaneous, tightly enveloped, obovate, ca. 2 mm (excluding beak), trigonous with angles constricted at middle, base curved stipitate, apical beak slender, slightly curved; style persistent, base hardly thickened; stigmas 3. Fl. and fr. Apr-May.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
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Mature height (meter) 0.35 - 0.5
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Distribution

Carex thibetica world distribution map, present in China and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:302631-1
WFO ID wfo-0000351969
COL ID RC9K
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Synonyms

Carex thibetica

Lower taxons

Carex thibetica var. thibetica Carex thibetica var. pauciflora