Carex capillacea
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Description
Leaves subbasal, much shorter than to slightly exceeding the stems, flat or canaliculate, smooth or nearly so, erect, ½-2 mm wide;
Distribution
Annam present, Asia-Temperate: Korea present, Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Atjeh present, Australasia: New South Wales (New South Wales present), G. Singalang present, Himalayan region present, Japan present, Luzon present, Mt Kinabalu present, Mt Papandajan present, Mt Rante Mario present, N. Borneo present, New Zealand present, SW. Celebes present, Sachalin present, W. Java present
From the Himalayan region to Annam, Manchuria, Korea, Japan, and extending as far north as Sachalin (var. sachalinensis Ohwi); through Malesia to Australia (New South Wales) and New Zealand; in Malesia: Sumatra (North: Atjeh; Central West: G. Singalang), W. Java (Mt Papandajan), N. Borneo (Mt Kinabalu), SW. Celebes (Mt Rante Mario), Philippines (Luzon), and New Guinea.
Notes
Closely related to the Indian C. rara Boott. Boott distinguished C. capillacea from C. rara by the capillary stems and leaves, the shorter, ovoid spikelet, the smaller, reflexed, puncticulate utricles, and the caducous glumes. Except for the much longer, linear spikelets (male part much longer than the female one), and the suberect utricles of C. rara, these characters are unreliable. The two might possibly better be regarded as subspecies of a single species.
In typical C. capillacea (var. capillacea) the stems and leaves are filiform and the utricles 2-2.5 mm long. The above description comprises also stouter plants with leaves up to 2 mm wide and utricles 3-4 mm long, which have been distinguished as var. sachalinensis (F. Schmidt) Ohwi.
In typical C. capillacea (var. capillacea) the stems and leaves are filiform and the utricles 2-2.5 mm long. The above description comprises also stouter plants with leaves up to 2 mm wide and utricles 3-4 mm long, which have been distinguished as var. sachalinensis (F. Schmidt) Ohwi.
Citation
Boeck. 1875 – In: Linnaea: 37
Boott 1907 – In: Philip. J. Sc.: Bot. 107
Clarke 1894 – In: Fl. Br. Ind.: 713
Boott 1954 – In: Reinwardtia: 381
Boott 1904 – In: J. Linn. Soc. Bot.: 7
Nelmes 1949: Kew Bull.: 381
Steen. 1930: 87, 89. – In: Trop. Natuur: f. 14
S. T. Blake 1947 – In: J. Arn. Arb.: 101
Kuk. 1909 – In: Pfl. R. Heft: 102
Yoshikawa 1958: p. 218. – In: Ic. Jap. Carex: t. 109
Raym. 1959 – In: Mem. Jard. Bot. Montreal: 18
Kern 1968 – In: Back. & Bakh.f., Fl. Java 3: 488
Steen. 1972: Mt. Fl. Java: pl. 14-8
Koyama 1962 – In: J. Fac. Sc. Un. Tokyo: 206
Ohwi 1936 – In: Mem. Coll. Sc. Kyoto Imp. Un.: 441
Back. 1949 – In: Bekn. Fl. Java, (em. ed.): fam. 246, p. 64
Kuk. 1940 – In: Bull. Jard. Bot. Btzg: 313
Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 141
Benth. 1878 – In: Fl. Austr.: 438
Kuk. 1911 – In: Philip. J. Sc.: Bot. 58
Akiyama 1955: Car. Far East. Reg. Asia: 42: t. 6, f. 1 A-D
Boott 1951 – In: Reinwardtia: 405
Clarke 1904 – In: J. Linn. Soc. Bot.: 7