{"id":1329038,"date":"2013-04-14T16:30:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T16:30:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-24T18:38:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T13:08:21","slug":"carex-nivalis","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/carex-nivalis\/","title":{"rendered":"Carex nivalis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Carex<\/i> nivalis<\/i> Boott<\/span><\/font><\/a>, Proc. Linn. Soc. London 1: 256 1845<\/i>. (Syn: Carex<\/i> cinnamomea<\/i> Boott<\/span><\/font><\/a>; Carex<\/i> gilesii<\/i> Nelmes<\/span><\/font><\/a>; Carex<\/i> griffithii<\/i> Boott<\/span><\/font><\/a>; Carex<\/i> lepus-aestatis<\/i> T.Koyama<\/span><\/font><\/a>; Carex<\/i> luteobrunnea<\/i> Nelmes<\/span><\/font><\/a>; Carex<\/i> nivalis<\/i> f.<\/span> cinnamomea<\/i> (Boott) K\u00fck.<\/span><\/font><\/a>\u00a0…; Carex<\/i> oliveri<\/i> Boeckeler<\/span><\/font><\/a>; Carex<\/i> ustulata<\/i> var.<\/span> aterrima<\/i> Regel<\/span><\/font><\/a>; Carex<\/i> ustulata<\/i> var.<\/span> coriophora<\/i> Regel<\/span><\/font><\/a>);<\/div>\n
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Poaceae, Cyperaceae and Juncaceae Week: Grass for ID from Paddar Valley J&K, 001<\/a>\u00a0: 3 attachments. 3 posts by 3 authors.<\/div>\n

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Kindly identify this plant species<\/div>\n
Location: Paddar valley J&K<\/font><\/div>\n
Altitude: 4000-5000 m asl<\/font><\/div>\n
Date:8th August 2011<\/font><\/p>\n
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May be Carex nivalis<\/i><\/p>\n
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Carex nivalis<\/i> to me too.<\/p>\n
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Poaceae, Cyperaceae and Juncaceae Week: Cyperaceae- Carex nivalis from Gulmarg, Kashmir-GS19<\/a>:\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Attachments<\/span> (3<\/span>). 4 posts by 4 authors.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n
Carex nivalis<\/i> Boott. Photographed from grassy slopes<\/font> above Gulmarg, Kashmir<\/font><\/p>\n
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Poaceae, Cyperaceae and Juncaceae Week: Cyperaceae-Carex nivalis from Kashmir-pl validate-GS22<\/a> : <\/span>Attachments<\/span> (3<\/span>).\u00a02 posts by 2 authors.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Photographed from grassy slopes<\/font> in Gulmarg, Kashmir alt. 8000 ft,<\/font> Looks like Carex nivalis<\/i>, Pl. validate. <\/p>\n
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Poaceae, Cyperaceae and Juncaceae Week: Cyperaceae- Carex species for ID from Kashmir-GS20<\/a> : <\/span>Attachments<\/span> (2<\/span>). 3 posts by 2 authors.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

Carex<\/i> species photographed from Khillenmarg, Kashmir alt. about 10000 ft.<\/font> Pl. help in ID<\/p>\n
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<\/span>Can it be Carex nivalis<\/i> Boott<\/font><\/a>\u00a0as per images herein ?<\/p>\n

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Carex<\/i> is a large and difficult genus.\u00a0 I photographed 3 Carex<\/i> in my own village in the UK this year and have only, so far, been able to name one of them.\u00a0 There is a guide to Carex published by the BSBI which I had a copy of at one time but was damaged and discarded; I do not currently have the budget to buy an up-dated version.\u00a0 Without it I will struggle (without help) to name the other two.<\/div>\n
In the UK we are blessed with The Botanical Society of the British Isles (BSBI)\u00a0which has a Panel of Referees and Specialists available to have material sent to them to identify.\u00a0 There are a number of specialists available to accept specimens of Carex<\/i>\u00a0(either pressed and dried or in some cases fresh) with certain\u00a0ones with particular expertise in particular groups or aggregates.\u00a0 In all cases mature fruits and underground parts should be sent.\u00a0 I doubt if many of them would be able or willing to attempt to name specimens on the basis of photos alone particular those not of greater close-ups or with more mature fruits than shown in these images.<\/div>\n
Stewart commented that like the Carex alpina<\/i> complex in the Himalaya, the Carex nivalis<\/i> complex is a very difficult one and the authorities do not yet agree on the best way to handle it.\u00a0 Some one should study the group cytologically to try and disentangle the threads.\u00a0There seem to be groups which Kukenthal in his Monograph called froms.\u00a0 Some have called them varieties and still others consider some of them to be distinct species.<\/div>\n
Having said that, Stewart enlisted the help of various Carex<\/i> specialists to name the sedges of Pakistan & Kashmir incl. in the summer of 1964 Miss Sheila Hooper who went over the rich material at Kew with him and made the following key for the Carex gilesii-Carex griffithii-Carex nivalis <\/i>complex:<\/div>\n
1. Terminal spike usually entirely male; utricle distinctly but shortly beaked\u00a0 C.gilesii<\/b><\/div>\n
\u00a0Terminal spike female below, male above; beak from almost nil to distinct\u00a0 …..2<\/div>\n
2. Glumes and utricles black …………………………………………………………………….3<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Glumes and utricles cinnamon brown …………………… C.oliverii (C.nivalis forma cinnamomea<\/b>)<\/div>\n
3\u00a0 Glumes and utricles golden ………………………………………… C.luteo-brunnea<\/b><\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b>Glumes and utricles not golden ………………………………………………………………4<\/div>\n
4\u00a0 Glumes with a conspicuous green arista which exceeds the utricle\u00a0 ….. C.nivalis forma griffithii<\/b><\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b>Glumes with a short mucro; beak of utricle short\u00a0 ……………………………..C.nivalis\u00a0 var. nivalis<\/b><\/div>\n
Stewart records Carex nivalis<\/i> as common from 3300-5100m.<\/font><\/div>\n
Khelanmarg is closer in altitude than Gulmarg to this altitudinal range\u00a0but the complex is not well known, assuming it.\u00a0 These images look similar to the ones taken at Gulmarg.<\/p>\n
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The Plant List<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Flora of Pakistan<\/a>\u00a0 <\/span>Annonated checklist of Flowering plants of Nepal<\/a>\u00a0 <\/span>Flora of China<\/a>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Encyclopedia of Life<\/a> (Specimen) <\/span><\/p>\n

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Carex nivalis Boott, Proc. Linn. Soc. London 1: 256 1845. (Syn: Carex cinnamomea Boott; Carex gilesii Nelmes; Carex griffithii Boott; Carex lepus-aestatis T.Koyama; Carex luteobrunnea Nelmes; Carex nivalis f. cinnamomea (Boott) K\u00fck.\u00a0…; Carex oliveri Boeckeler; Carex ustulata var. aterrima Regel; Carex ustulata var. coriophora Regel); \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Poaceae, Cyperaceae and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[6636],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1329038","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-carex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1329038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1329038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1329038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1329038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1329038"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1329038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}