Carex ×elatior (Kük.) K.A.Ford

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Name scientific

Carex ×elatior (Kük.) K.A.Ford, New Zealand J. Bot. 66 (online) (2025)

Preferred name

Carex ×elatior (Kük.) K.A.Ford

Taxonomy reference

Ford, K.A. 2025: A taxonomic revision of New Zealand species of Carex section Inversae Kük. (Carex subgenus Vignea, Cyperaceae). New Zealand Journal of Botany: 1–73 (online) DOI: 10.1080/0028825X.2025.2458506. (Published online: 13 Feb 2025)

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Ford, K.A. (2025)

Nomenclature

Combination authors

K.A.Ford

Original authors

Kük.

Authors

(Kük.) K.A.Ford

Publication place

Year published

2025

Publication page

66 (online)

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Carex kirkii var. elatior Kük.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Carex ×elatior

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Poales

Family

Cyperaceae

Genus

Carex

Species

×elatior

Synonyms

Carex kirkii var. elatior Kük.

Hybridisation

Hybrid name

Carex ambita K.A.Ford × Carex trachycarpa Cheeseman

Descriptions

Healy, A. J.; Edgar, E. 1980: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. III. Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous and Spathaceous Monocotyledons. Government Printer, Wellington.

Carex kirkii var. elatior Kük.

Description

Plants usually 10-30 cm high. Upper part of stems visible. Inflorescence 1-4 cm long.

Moore, L.B.; Edgar, E. 1970: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. II. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Monocotyledones except Gramineae. Botany Division DSIR, Wellington.

Carex kirkii var. elatior Kük.

Description

Culms 8–21 cm. long, upper part not enclosed by lf-sheaths. Lvs 9–35 cm. × 0.5–1.5 mm., involute or flattened. Infl. 1–4 cm. × c. 5 mm., spikes rather distant, especially the lower ones, the lowest 1–2 spikes each occ. subtended by a lf-like bract.