Carex verticillata

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Carex verticillata

Description

Leaves basal and 1-2 on the stem proper, shorter than to equalling the stem, flattish with often strongly revolute margins, stiff, coriaceous, with scabrid margins, asperous above especially towards the long-attenuated apex, 3-8 mm wide; Inflorescence a lax to dense panicle, 15-50 cm long, consisting of 4-7 fascicles of up to 20 spikelets, lower fascicles rather distant, upper approximate.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Jawa (Jawa present); Laos (Laos present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), G. Kerbau present, Mt Kinabalu present, N. Borneo present, Perak present, Tonkin present
Laos, Tonkin; in Malesia: Sumatra, Malay Peninsula (Perak: G. Kerbau), Java, N. Borneo (Mt Kinabalu).

Notes

Variable as to the colour of glumes and utricles. In most of the Mt Kinabalu specimens the glumes and utricles are very dark; they were distinguished as var. havilandii (Clarke) Nelmes.
A collection from E. Java (G. Semeru), in which the glumes and utricles are pale golden to fulvous, was distinguished as var. lutescens Nelmes.
Carex phacelostachys Nelmes only could be distinguished by the utricles which are faintly nerved against nerveless in C. verticillata. The collection van Steenis 9624 from Atjeh has been identified as C. verticillata by both Nelmes and Kern; after careful examination of the utricles I could not find any difference with C. phacelostachys. I examined many utricles of C. verticillata with translucent light. Most of them are nerveless indeed, but others are faintly nerved, often only at the base, at least in plants from Sumatra and Borneo.
The species might also be conspecific with C. walkeri Arnott ex Boott. — (Noot.).

Citation

Clarke 1908 – In: Kew Bull.: 75
Kern 1968 – In: Back. & Bakh.f., Fl. Java 3: 488
Raym. 1959 – In: Mem. Jard. Bot. Montreal: 74
Back. 1949 – In: Bekn. Fl. Java, (em. ed.): fam. 246, p. 65
Clarke 1904 – In: J. Linn. Soc. Bot.: 13
Zoll. & Mor. 1951 – In: Reinwardtia: 340
Nelmes 1951 – In: Reinwardtia: 344
Kuk. 1909: p. 546. – In: Pfl. R. Heft: f. 89
Miq. 1857 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 353
Nelmes 1950: Kew Bull.: 195
Miq. 1936 – In: Hochr., Candollea 6: 432
Boeck. 1877 – In: Linnaea: 257
Steud. 1855 – In: Syn.: 222
Raym. 1959 – In: Mem. Jard. Bot. Montreal: 72
Boeck. 1877 – In: Linnaea: 256
Clarke 1908 – In: Kew Bull.: 75