Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Poales Small
Family
Cyperaceae Juss.
Genus
Carex L.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Carex talbotii Kottaim. in Kottaimuthu & Jothi Basu, Phytotaxa 447: 146 (2020)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Carex berggrenii Petrie, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 18: 297 (1886) nom. illeg., non Carex berggrenii Heer 1814
Lectotype (designated by Edgar 1970: 255–256): South Island, Mount Pisa Range, Luggate Creek, 1200 m, D.Petrie 430 (WELT11974, digital image!).
Etymology:
Named after Harry Talbot (1898–1982), a devoted plant collector, New Zealand.
 Description

Short, broad, dull red or blue-green tufts to 6 cm high; rhizome short. Leaves concavo-convex, almost flat, hardly narrowed to strikingly obtuse tip. Female spikes 2, crowded round male, < 1 cm long, red-brown. Stigmas 2 or 3.

[From: Healy and Edgar (1980) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 3. as Carex berggrenii Petrie]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Hitchmough, R.; Townsend, A.J. 2009: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand (2008 revision). New Zealand Journal of Botany 47: 61–96. [as Carex berggrenii Petrie] [Naturally uncommon]
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P.; Molloy, B.P.J.; Ogle, C.C.; Rance, B.D. 2004: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 42(1): 45–76. [as Carex berggrenii Petrie]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Barkla J.W.; Courtney, S.P.; Champion, P.D.; Perrie, L.R.; Beadel, S.N.; Ford, K.A.; Breitwieser, I.; Schönberger, I.; Hindmarsh-Walls, R.; Heenan, P.B.; Ladley, K. 2018: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017. New Zealand Threat Classification Series. No. 22. [as Carex berggrenii Petrie] [Declining]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. 2013: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. [as Carex berggrenii Petrie] [Naturally Uncommon]
Kottaimuthu, R.; Jothi Basu, M. 2020: Carex talbotii (Cyperaceae), a replacement name for Berggren’s Sedge. Phytotaxa 447(2): 164–148.
Petrie, D. 1886: Description of new species of native plants. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 18: 295–298.