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5. Carex sect. Indicae Tuckerman, Enum. Meth. Caric. 10. 1843.

印度薹草组 yin du tai cao zu

Authors: Shuren Zhang, Tetsuo Koyama & Gordon C. Tucker

Panicle compound. Spikes numerous, bisexual, androgynous, arising from flowerless utriculiform cladoprophylls, oblong, less than 2 cm. Utricles not inflated or slightly inflated, several veined.

About 20 species: tropical and subtropical Asia; 13 species (four endemic) in China.


1 Female glume awnless (sometimes awned or mucronate); utricle less than 3 mm, brown to reddish brown or pale brown with dense reddish brown spots and lines; style base not thickened or slightly thickened   (2)
+ Female glume aristate; utricle 3.5-10 mm, pale brown to pale green; style base usually thickened   (7)
       
2 (1) Female glume awned or mucronate; upper part of utricle hairy   (3)
+ Female glume awnless, glabrous abaxially; utricle glabrous   (5)
       
3 (2) Inflorescence branches linear; beak of utricle straight, strongly 2-toothed.   14 C. burttii
+ Inflorescence branches oblong-lanceolate to ovate-triangular; beak of utricle straight, minutely 2-toothed or obliquely truncate   (4)
       
4 (3) Inflorescence branches ovate-triangular, single; utricle pale brown with dense brown spots and lines, beak slightly shorter than 1/2 length of utricle; style base slightly thickened.   20 C. continua
+ Inflorescence branches oblong-lanceolate, usually binate; utricle reddish brown, beak ca. 1/2 length of utricle; style base not thickened.   21 C. rafflesiana
       
5 (2) Inflorescence branches compact; female glumes and utricles pale brown, pale yellowish green, or pale green, sometimes with scattered brown spots and lines.   19 C. subfilicinoides
+ Inflorescence branches patent and lax; female glumes and utricles brown to reddish brown or pale brown with dense reddish brown spots and lines   (6)
       
6 (5) Utricle elliptic or narrowly elliptic, with many fine veins, beak ca. 1/2 length of utricle; inflorescence branches triangular-ovate.   17 C. filicina
+ Utricle ovate-oblong, with several raised veins, beak slightly shorter than 1/2 length of utricle; inflorescence branches elliptic.   18 C. doisutepensis
       
7 (1) Male part of spike oblong, 6-7 × 2-3 mm; utricle 5.5-10 mm, beak thin and long, nearly 2 × as long as utricle body; inflorescence branches loosely few spiked; leaf blade 2-2.5 mm.   9 C. commixta
+ Male part of spike oblong-cylindric or cylindric, 5-8 × ca. 1 mm; utricle 3.5-5 mm, beak shorter than or as long as utricle body; inflorescence branches many spiked (only C. tenuipaniculata with few spikes); leaf blade 5-12 mm   (8)
       
8 (7) Female glume with excurved or twisting awn, awn 1-2 × as long as glume   (9)
+ Female glume with straight awn, awn shorter than glume   (10)
       
9 (8) Inflorescence branches compact; male part longer than or as long as female part of spike; utricle ovate or elliptic, trigonous, slightly inflated, green, pale brown when dried; female glume yellowish brown, 1/3-1/2 length of utricle.   10 C. indica
+ Inflorescence branches lax and outspread; male part 1/5-1/3 length of female part of spike; utricle rhomboid-ovate, trigonous, not inflated, pale green; female glume yellowish white, ca. 1/4 length of utricle.   11 C. indiciformis
       
10 (8) Female glume yellowish white, with dense brown spots and lines; inflorescence axes densely hairy; orifice of utricle beak 2-toothed   (11)
+ Female glume brown or pale yellowish green; inflorescence axes slightly hairy or glabrous; orifice of utricle beak obliquely truncate   (12)
       
11 (10) Inflorescence branches many spiked; peduncles of inflorescence branches and inflorescence axes rigid; utricle elliptic.   12 C. cruciata
+ Inflorescence branches 3-8-spiked; peduncles of inflorescence branches and inflorescence axes flaccid; utricle narrowly elliptic or oblanceolate.   13 C. tenuipaniculata
       
12 (10) Female glume brown, falling off with utricle at maturity, apex emarginate; inflorescence branches lax; utricle narrowly elliptic, ca. 5 mm; ligule of cladoprophyll ca. 2 × as long as body.   15 C. deciduisquama
+ Female glume pale yellowish green, stramineous when dried, persistent, apex rounded or obtuse; inflorescence branches compact; utricle oblong or ovate- oblong, ca. 3.5 mm; ligule of cladoprophyll nearly as long as body.   16 C. stramentitia

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