Carex baccans
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Description
Leaves all over the stem, often overtopping the inflorescence, long-attenuate, coriaceous, flat or with revolute margins, asperous on the upper surface in the apical part, with scabrous margins, 5-18 mm wide;
Inflorescence paniculate, compound or decompound, oblong, occupying 1/3-1/2 of the stem, erect or somewhat nodding at the top;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: East Himalaya (Sikkim present); India present; Jawa (Jawa present); Lesser Sunda Is. (Bali present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sumatera (Sumatera present); Thailand (Thailand present), Ceylon present, Lesser Sunda Is present, Lombok present, Luzon present, Pahang present, S. China present, Southern America: Argentina Northeast (Formosa present)
Ceylon, India (Sikkim and Khasia), S. China and Formosa, and through Thailand and Indo-China to Malesia; in Malesia: Sumatra, Malay Peninsula (Pahang), Java, Lesser Sunda Is. (Bali, Lombok), Philippines (Luzon), New Guinea.
Notes
This beautiful species seems to be sometimes cultivated as an ornamental in temperate regions; see ).
Citation
Koyama 1962 – In: J. Fac. Sc. Tokyo Un.: 216
Koord. 1911 – In: Exk. Fl. Java: 211
Miq. 1856 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 350
Clarke 1904 – In: J. Linn. Soc. Bot.: 14
Boeck. 1876 – In: Linnaea: 339
Nelmes 1950: Kew Bull.: 194
Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 136
Boott 1860: p. 83. – In: Ill.: t. 234-236, 238, 239
Nees 1894 – In: Fl. Br. Ind.: 722
Steudt. 1855 – In: Syn.: 207
Nees 1907 – In: Philip. J. Sc.: Bot. 108
Kunth 1837 – In: En.: 513
O. K. 1891 – In: Rev. Gen. Pl.: 747
Steudt. 1854 – In: Zoll., Syst. Verz. 1: 60
Back. 1949 – In: Bekn. Fl. Java, (em. ed.): fam. 246, p. 68
Raym. 1959 – In: Mem. Jard. Bot. Montreal: 50
Nees 1951 – In: Reinwardtia: 322
Nees 1965 – In: Dansk Bot. Ark.: 257
Clarke 1893 – In: Bot. Mag.: t. 7288
Camus 1912 – In: Fl. Gen. I.-C.: 185
Nees 1904 – In: J. Linn. Soc. Bot.: 14
Nees 1911 – In: Philip. J. Sc.: Bot. 59
Ridl. 1925 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 184
Steen. 1972: Mt. Fl. Java: pl. 15-1
cf. Back. 1938 – In: Brittonia: 76
Ohwi 1936 – In: Mem. Coll. Sc. Kyoto Imp. Un.: 462
Kuk. 1909: p. 258. – In: Pfl. R. Heft: f. 39E-H
Kern 1968 – In: Back. & Bakh.f., Fl. Java 3: 493