Plate 1 figs. a–c · 3 separate observations
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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection
- Herbarium
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- Accession
- K000960847
- Filed as
- Carex conica Boott
- Det. by
- Clarke, C.B.
- Collected
- Wilford, C. 1859-05-01
- Origin
- JP
- The sheet
- View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)
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Native range 3 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | JAP | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
| Korea | KOR | |
| Nansei-shoto | NNS |
Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.
Named cultivars 1 recorded
Selections of Carex conica that somebody named and propagated. A cultivar is not a botanical taxon: it is governed by the cultivated-plant code rather than the botanical one, so it appears in no taxonomic backbone, and it has no native range and no wild population of its own. These get no page here, because a cultivar has no photographs, no range and no flowering data of its own, and a page with none of those is not a page.
- ‘Snowline’ Q117751163
From Wikidata (CC0), joined to this species on its World Flora Online identifier, so the link to the parent is exact rather than a name match. This list is what is recorded in an openly licensed register; it is not every cultivar that exists, and for many genera it is not close. Why, and how far short it falls.
Also published as 15 synonyms
A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.
- Carex atroviridis var. scabrocaudata T.Koyama
- Carex conica f. albomarginata T.Koyama
- Carex conica f. longirostrata Kük.
- Carex conica f. mollis Kük.
- Carex conica f. rubens Kük.
- Carex conica var. lanceolata Akiyama
- Carex conica var. leucolepis Franch. & Sav.
- Carex conica var. pallescens T.Hoshino & H.Ikeda
- Carex digama Nakai
- Carex discolor Boeckeler
- Carex doiana Akiyama
- Carex excisa Boott
- Carex naumanniana Boeckeler
- Carex okushirensis Akiyama
- Carex yoshinoi Ohwi
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.
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