Vasilis Teodoridis:
15. Carex filicina Nees in Wight; Contrib. Bot. India; 123. 1834.
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Cyperus caricinus D. Don; Prodr. Fl. Nepal 39. 1825; Carex caricina (D. Don) N. Ghildyal & U. C. Bhattacharyya; J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. 7: 602. 1986 [Why is this not the correct name? 1825 vs. 1834]; C. filicina var. meiogyna (Nees) Strachey; C. filicina var. subdensa F. T. Wang & Tang; C. filicina subsp. pseudofilicina (Hayata) T. Koyama; C. meiogyna Nees; p. p.; C. pseudofilicina Hayata.
Rhizome thick; woody. Culms densely tufted; 40?90 ? 0.2?0.25 cm; sharply trigonous; glabrous. Leaves longer rarely shorter than culmes; flat; 5?14 mm wide; scabrid abaxially or glabrous on both surfaces; persistent sheaths purplish red or purplish brown; fibriform. Bracts leafy; longer than inflorescence branches; long-sheathed; panicle compound; 20?50 cm; inflorescence branches 4?8; triangular-ovate; 4?15 ? 3?7 cm; single; rarely binate; peduncles of inflorescence branches tenuous; trigonous; lowest one 10?20 cm; upper ones gradually shorter; loosely hairy on edges; inflorescence axes sharply trigonous; hairy; bractlets glumaceous; 2?3 mm; apex long-awned; cladoprophylls utriculiform; without flower; spikes numerous; oblong or oblong-cylindrical; patent or slightly patent; producing from cladoprophylls; bisexual; androgynous; 5?15 mm; terminal one 8?20 mm; staminate part of spike shorter than pistillate part; 3?7-flowered; pistillate part 2?16-flowered; staminate glumes lanceolate; 2?3 mm; acuminate; membranous; brown or reddish brown; pistillate glumes ovate or lanceolate; 1.5?2 mm; membranous; acuminate or acute; brown; reddish brown or pale brown with reddish brown spots and short lines; glabrous; with 1 midvein. Utricles elliptic or narrowly elliptic; trigonous; ca. 3 mm; membranous; lower part yellowish white; upper part brown or reddish brown; or wholly pale brown with reddish brown spots and short lines; glabrous; with 2 lateral veins and several fine veins abaxially; nearly sessile; apex contracted into long excurved beak; beak 1/2 length of utricle; beak mouth obliquely truncate. Achenes elliptic; trigonous; ca. 1.5 mm; yellowish brown when mature; base of style not thickened; stigma 3.
Forests; grasslands; 1200?2800 m. Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hainan; Hubei; Jiangxi; Sichuan; Taiwan; Xizang; Yunnan; Zhejiang [India; Indonesia; Malaysia; Myanmar; Nepal; Philippines; Sri Lanka; Vietnam].