Class
Order
Family
Classification
Subordinate Taxa
- Carex acicularis
- Carex albula
- Carex allanii
- Carex applanata
- Carex appressa
- Carex astricta
- Carex auceps
- Carex aucklandica
- Carex banksiana
- Carex bichenoviana
- Carex binervis
- Carex breviculmis
- Carex brownii
- Carex buchananii
- Carex calcis
- Carex capillacea
- Carex carsei
- Carex chathamica
- Carex cheesemaniana
- Carex cirrhosa
- Carex cockayneana
- Carex colensoi
- Carex comans
- Carex coriacea
- Carex corynoidea
- Carex cremnicola
- Carex crispa
- Carex cyanea
- Carex dallii
- Carex decurtata
- Carex demissa
- Carex devia
- Carex diandra
- Carex dipsacea
- Carex dissita
- Carex distans
- Carex divisa
- Carex divulsa
- Carex dolomitica
- Carex druceana
- Carex drucei
- Carex echinata
- Carex edgariae
- Carex edura
- Carex egmontiana
- Carex elingamita
- Carex enysii
- Carex erebus
- Carex erythrovaginata
- Carex fascicularis
- Carex filamentosa
- Carex flacca
- Carex flagellifera
- Carex flaviformis
- Carex forsteri
- Carex fretalis
- Carex gaudichaudiana
- Carex geminata
- Carex goyenii
- Carex hamlinii
- Carex healyi
- Carex hectorii
- Carex hirsutella
- Carex hirta
- Carex horizontalis
- Carex imbecilla
- Carex impexa
- Carex inopinata
- Carex inversa
- Carex iynx
- Carex kaloides
- Carex kermadecensis
- Carex kirkii
- Carex lachenalii
- Carex lambertiana
- Carex lectissima
- Carex leporina
- Carex lessoniana
- Carex libera
- Carex litorosa
- Carex longebrachiata
- Carex longifructus
- Carex longii
- Carex lurida
- Carex maculata
- Carex maorica
- Carex megalepis
- Carex minor
- Carex morrowii
- Carex muelleri
- Carex muricata
- Carex obtusifolia
- Carex ochrosaccus
- Carex ophiolithica
- Carex otrubae
- Carex pallescens
- Carex paniculata
- Carex parvispica
- Carex penalpina
- Carex pendula
- Carex perplexa
- Carex petriei
- Carex pleiostachys
- Carex potens
- Carex pterocarpa
- Carex pumila
- Carex punctata
- Carex punicea
- Carex purpurata
- Carex pyrenaica
- Carex raoulii
- Carex resectans
- Carex riparia
- Carex rubicunda
- Carex scoparia
- Carex secta
- Carex sectoides
- Carex silvestris
- Carex sinclairii
- Carex solandri
- Carex spicata
- Carex spinirostris
- Carex strictissima
- Carex subdola
- Carex subtilis
- Carex subviridis
- Carex sylvatica
- Carex talbotii
- Carex tenuiculmis
- Carex ternaria
- Carex testacea
- Carex trachycarpa
- Carex traversii
- Carex trifida
- Carex uncifolia
- Carex uncinata
- Carex ventosa
- Carex virescens
- Carex virgata
- Carex vulpinoidea
- Carex wakatipu
- Carex zotovii
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Carex L., Sp. Pl. 972 (1753)
Synonymy:
- = Uncinia Pers., Syn. Pl. (Persoon) 2, 534 (1807 [1806])
- = Vignea P.Beauv. ex T.Lestib. (1819)
Type Taxon:
Vernacular Name(s):
Cyperus sedge; Makura; Mārū; mātā; mātātā; Pūkio; Pūrei; Pūreirei; Pūrekireki; Sedge
Description
Perennial herbs, tufted, rhizomatous or stoloniferous. Stems usually 3-angled and solid, rarely terete and hollow. Leaves tristichous, usually linear, mostly crowded at base of stem and sheathing, sheath closed, with a minute, membranous ligule. Plants usually monoecious, rarely dioecious. Inflorescence a spike, cluster of spikes, or panicle; bracts leaf-like or setaceous. Spikes sessile or pedunculate, unisexual or bisexual, composed of numerous 1-flowered spikelets, each subtended by a glume. Flowers unisexual, perianth 0. Male flower with 3 stamens (rarely 2). Female flower a single pistil enclosed in an utricle; style 1, branched above to 2 or 3 stigmas projecting from utricle. Nut trigonous or biconvex, enclosed within persistent utricle.
[From: Healy and Edgar (1980) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 3.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
| Category | Number |
|---|---|
| Indigenous (Endemic) | 97 |
| Indigenous (Non-endemic) | 16 |
| Exotic: Fully Naturalised | 24 |
| Exotic: Casual | 5 |
| Total | 142 |
Bibliography
Global Carex Group 2015: Making Carex monophyletic (Cyperaceae, tribe Cariceae): a new broader circumscription. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 179: 1–42.
Hamlin, B.G. 1959: A Revision of the Genus Uncinia (Cyperaceae Caricoideae) in New Zealand. Dominion Museum Bulletin 19: 1–106. [as Uncinia Pers.]
Linnaeus, C. 1753: Species Plantarum. Impensis Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm.
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.
Persoon, C. H. 1806–1807: Synopsis plantarum, seu enchiridium botanicum, complectens enumerationem systematicam specierum hucusque cognitarum. Vol. 2. Cramerum et Tubingæ, Paris.
