Cyperaceae

Carex L.

First published in Sp. Pl.: 972 (1753)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Cosmopolitan.

Distribution

Native to:

Afghanistan, Alabama, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Aleutian Is., Algeria, Altay, Amsterdam-St.Paul Is, Amur, Andaman Is., Angola, Antipodean Is., Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Assam, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Borneo, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Burundi, Buryatiya, California, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Caprivi Strip, Caroline Is., Central African Repu, Central European Rus, Chatham Is., Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Christmas I., Cocos (Keeling) Is., Colombia, Colorado, Comoros, Connecticut, Cook Is., Corse, Costa Rica, Crozet Is., Cuba, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Delaware, Denmark, District of Columbia, Dominican Republic, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Is., Fiji, Finland, Florida, France, Free State, Føroyar, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Great Britain, Greece, Greenland, Guatemala, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Idaho, Illinois, India, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Juan Fernández Is., Kamchatka, Kansas, Kazakhstan, Kazan-retto, Kentucky, Kenya, Kerguelen, Kermadec Is., Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Kuril Is., KwaZulu-Natal, Labrador, Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Leeward Is., Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Libya, Louisiana, Macquarie Is., Madagascar, Madeira, Magadan, Maine, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Maluku, Manchuria, Manitoba, Marianas, Marion-Prince Edward, Marquesas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Mongolia, Montana, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nebraska, Nepal, Netherlands, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New South Wales, New York, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Newfoundland, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Norfolk Is., North Carolina, North Caucasus, North Dakota, North European Russi, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Northwest European R, Northwest Territorie, Norway, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ogasawara-shoto, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Palestine, Panamá, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Puerto Rico, Qinghai, Queensland, Québec, Rhode I., Rodrigues, Romania, Rwanda, Réunion, Sakhalin, Samoa, Sardegna, Saskatchewan, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sierra Leone, Sinai, Society Is., Socotra, Solomon Is., Somalia, South Australia, South Carolina, South Dakota, South European Russi, South Georgia, Spain, Sri Lanka, St.Helena, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Svalbard, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tasmania, Tennessee, Texas, Thailand, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tristan da Cunha, Tubuai Is., Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Utah, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vermont, Victoria, Vietnam, Virginia, Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, West Virginia, Western Australia, Windward Is., Wisconsin, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Yukon, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. & Simpson, D.A. (2007). World Checklist of Cyperaceae. Sedges: 1-765. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
  • Koopman, J. (2011). Carex Europaea. The Genus Carex L. (Cyperaceae) in Europe 1: 1-726. Margraf publishers,Weikersheim, Germany.
  • Koopman, J., Smith, C. & Blackstock, N. (2014). Carex tomentosa versus C. filiformis (Cyperaceae): the long-standing debate comes to its happy end. Nordic Journal of Botany 32.
  • Wu, Z. & Raven, P.H. (eds.) (2010). Flora of China 23: 1-515. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.

Flora Zambesiaca Cyperaceae

  • C. Archer in Flora Zambesiaca Volume: 14: Cyperaceae (2020). MÁ García, Jonathan R Timberlake (Eds). Kew Publishing, London.
  • Gehrke in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 166: 51–99 (2011).
  • L., Sp. Pl.: 972 (1753).

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • F.T.A. 8: 514 (1902)
  • Gen. Pl. ed. 5, 420 (1754)
  • Kükenthal in Engl., Pflanzenr. Cyperaceae-Caricoideae: 67–767 (1908).
  • Sp. Pl. 972 (1753)

Flora of Somalia

  • Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by K. A. Lye [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
  • Kükenthal in Pflanzenr. IV.20 (1909).

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • Gen Pl. ed. 5: 420 (1754)
  • Haines & Lye, Sedges and Rushes E. Afr.: 368–384 (1983)
  • Journ. E. Afr. Nat. Hist. Soc. 24 (106): 6–18 (1963)
  • Sp. Pl.: 972 (1753)

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Jul 1, 1887 s.coll. [Cat. no. s.n.], Assam K001132709 Yes
Johns, R.J. [9120], New Guinea 70309.000 No
Johns, R.J. [9120], New Guinea 64344.000 No
s.coll. [Cat. no. s.n.] K001132706 Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 3388], Nepal K000767921 Yes
Blinkworth, R. [Cat. no. 3389], India K000767923 Yes
De Silva, F. [Cat. no. 3392] K000767926 Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 3393], Nepal K000767927 Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 3396], Nepal K000767932 Yes
Stelfox, A.W. [s.n.], Ireland K000300542 Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 3400], Nepal K000587395 Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 3387], Nepal K000767920 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 3390], India K001119308 Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 3384], Nepal K001119305 Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 3397], Nepal K000587393 Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 3389], Nepal K000767922 Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 3393], Nepal K001119309 Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 3386], Nepal K000767918 Yes
Rico, L. [1756], Armenia K000297269 No
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 3382], Nepal K000767915 Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 3384], Nepal K000587397 Unknown type material Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 3395], Nepal K000767930 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. s.n.], Assam K001132708 Yes
Blinkworth, R. [Cat. no. 3394], India K000767929 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 3400] K000767934 Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 3395], Nepal K001119310 Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 3391], India K000767925 Yes
Heyne, B. [Cat. no. s.n.] K001132704 Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 3398], Nepal K000587394 Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 3399], Myanmar K000767933 Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 3388], Nepal K001119307 Yes
Fay, M.F. [MFF272], United Kingdom K000696760 No
s.coll. [Cat. no. 3400] K001119306 Yes
De Silva, F. [Cat. no. 3395] K000767931 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 3384], India K000587392 Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 3385], Nepal K000767917 Yes
Blinkworth, R. [Cat. no. 3400], India K001119312 Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 3400], Nepal K001119311 Yes
Blinkworth, R. [Cat. no. 3394], India K000767928 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. s.n.], Meghalaya K001132707 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 3400] K000767935 Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 3533], Myanmar K001119667 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 3390], India K000767924 Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 3381], Nepal K000767914 Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 3383], Malaysia K000767916 Yes
Fay, M.F. [MFF274], United Kingdom K000696761 No
s.coll. [Cat. no. s.n.], Meghalaya K001132705 Yes

Sources

  • Flora Zambesiaca Cyperaceae

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Somalia

    • Flora of Somalia
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0