Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Carex
Cyperaceae Juss.
Carex L. , legitimate, scientific
Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 972 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: (not designated).
Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 420 [secondary reference]
Labillardière, J.J.H. de (1806), Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen 2(23): 69 BHL [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1861), Sixth Systematic Index of the Plants indigenous to the Colony of Victoria. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly: 18 [secondary reference]
Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 435 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 129 [secondary reference]
Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 97-98 [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "Latin name of some kind of rush."
Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 169 [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "Latin name of some kind of rush"
Nelmes, E. (1944), Key to the Australian Species of Carex (Cyperaceae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 155: 277-285 [secondary reference]
Nelmes, E. (1951), The Genus Carex in Malaysia. Reinwardtia 1(3): 221-450 [secondary reference]
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 504, Fig. 59D-F [secondary reference]
Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 74 [secondary reference]
Costin, A.B., Gray, M., Totterdell, C.J. & Wimbush, D.J. (1979), Kosciusko Alpine Flora Edn. 1: 145 [secondary reference]
Kern, J.H. & Nooteboom, H.P. (1979), Cyperaceae — II. Flora Malesiana Series I 9(1): 107-109 [secondary reference]
  • Type: Carex acuta L.
taxonomic synonym: Carex subg. Primocarex Kük. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Carex subg. Indocarex (Baill.) Nelmes legitimate
Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1134, 1139, 1140, 1141 [secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 10 [secondary reference]
Latz, P.K. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Cyperaceae (most genera). Flora of Central Australia: 498 [secondary reference]
Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Cyperaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 874 [secondary reference]
Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 350-351 [secondary reference]
Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 456 [secondary reference]
Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 385 [secondary reference]
Curtis, W.M. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Carex. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 144-148 [secondary reference]
Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 440 [secondary reference]
Wilson, K.L. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Cyperaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 336-339 [secondary reference]
Goetghebeur, P. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Cyperaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 4: 187-188, Fig. 44 [secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 267 [secondary reference]
State Herbarium of South Australia (2008), Fact sheets. The Electronic Flora of South Australia: - [secondary reference]
common name: Sedges [n/a]
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 152 [secondary reference]
National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009), PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online: - [secondary reference]
Western Australian Herbarium (2011), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.6: - [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]
  • APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA (native and naturalised), Qld, NSW (native and naturalised), ACT (native and naturalised), LHI, NI, Vic (native and naturalised), Tas (native and naturalised), MI
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Uncinia Pers. legitimate
  • APC Comment: Uncinia is recognised as a distinct taxon in Tas.
  • APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA (native and naturalised), Qld, NSW (native and naturalised), LHI, NI, ACT (native and naturalised), Vic (native and naturalised), Tas (native and naturalised), MI