短喙薹草组 duan hui tai cao zu

Authors: Yancheng Tang, Shuren Zhang & Tetsuo Koyama

Inflorescence 1-spiked, terminal, androgynous [or plants dioecious], female part sparsely flowered. Female glumes red-brown, clasping rachilla at base. Utricle obovate-oblong to obovate-elliptic, sparsely hirsute on upper half, nerveless except for 2 costas, base gradually tapering into a short stipe, apex abruptly contracted into a short recurved beak. Nutlet without reduced rachilla; stigmas 3.

One species: China (Taiwan), Japan.

Lower Taxon

• Carex grallatoria var. heteroclita (Franchet) Kükenthal ex Matsumura