Carex breviculmis

Carex breviculmis, called the Asian shortstem sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex, native to Asia from the Indian subcontinent to Southeast Asia, China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, north as far as Khabarovsk Krai, and Malesia, New Guinea, Australia, Norfolk Island and New Zealand.[2] It has been introduced to the US state of Mississippi.[3] Typically found in forests, it is quite shade tolerant.[4]

Carex breviculmis
Inflorescence
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Cyperaceae
Genus: Carex
Species:
C. breviculmis
Binomial name
Carex breviculmis
Synonyms[2]
List
    • Carex aphanandra Franch. & Sav.
    • Carex boniana Boeckeler
    • Carex breviculmis subsp. fibrillosa (Franch. & Sav.) T.Koyama
    • Carex breviculmis var. stipitata Kük.
    • Carex breviculmis var. typica Domin
    • Carex brevis S.T.Blake
    • Carex bulbostylis Kük.
    • Carex candolleana H.Lév. & Vaniot
    • Carex conorrhyncha Nelmes
    • Carex discoidea Boott
    • Carex eggytera Steud.
    • Carex fibrillosa Franch. & Sav.
    • Carex filiculmis Franch. & Sav.
    • Carex horikawae K.Okamoto
    • Carex langsdorffii Boott
    • Carex leucochlora Bunge
    • Carex leucochlora f. fibrillosa (Franch. & Sav.) K.T.Fu
    • Carex leucochlora var. horikawae (K.Okamoto) Katsuy.
    • Carex leucochlora var. morrisonicola (Hayata) Katsuy.
    • Carex lonchophora Ohwi
    • Carex morrisonicola Hayata
    • Carex pallens Z.P.Wang
    • Carex perangusta Ohwi
    • Carex perciliata (Kük.) Nelmes
    • Carex puberula Boott
    • Carex royleana Nees
    • Carex tosaensis Akiyama
    • Carex tricholoma S.T.Blake
    • Carex wardiana H.Lév. & Vaniot

Subtaxa

The following varieties are currently accepted:[2]

  • Carex breviculmis var. breviculmis
  • Carex breviculmis var. discoidea (Boott) Boott – Japan
  • Carex breviculmis var. fibrillosa (Franch. & Sav.) Matsum. & Hayata – China, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan
  • Carex breviculmis var. montivaga (S.T.Blake) Noot. – New Guinea
  • Carex breviculmis var. perciliata Kük. – Malesia to New Guinea
  • Carex breviculmis var. puberula (Boott) Makino – Japan

References
  1. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland.: 242 (1810)
  2. "Carex breviculmis R.Br". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  3. "Plant profile for Carex breviculmis R. Br. Asian shortstem sedge". Plants Database. USDA. Retrieved 15 January 2021. Other Common Names: blue sedge
  4. Teng, Ke; Teng, Wenjun; Wen, Haifeng; Yue, Yuesen; Guo, Weier; Wu, Juying; Fan, Xifeng (2019). "PacBio single-molecule long-read sequencing shed new light on the complexity of the Carex breviculmis transcriptome". BMC Genomics. 20 (1): 789. doi:10.1186/s12864-019-6163-6. PMC 6821003. PMID 31664898.


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