Carex depressaLink

WFO wfo-0000345973 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Carex depressa, photographed by Katarzyna Żarnowiec
fig. a Katarzyna Żarnowiec, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-03-13 / obs. 182692769

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
04325549
Filed as
Carex depressa subsp. transsilvanica (Schur) T.V.Egorova
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
not recorded
Origin
not recorded
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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Native range 23 botanical countries

Regions where Carex depressa is native: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Iran, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Austria, Baltic States, Bulgaria, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Hungary, Italy, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine AlgeriaMoroccoTunisiaIranNorth CaucasusTranscaucasusTürkiyeAustriaBaltic StatesBulgariaCorseCzechia-SlovakiaFranceHungaryItalyKrymNW. Balkan Pen.PolandPortugalRomaniaSpainTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine
Native distribution of Carex depressa, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Austria AUT EUROPE
Baltic States BLT
Bulgaria BUL
Corse COR
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Portugal POR
Romania ROM
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
Iran IRN ASIA-TEMPERATE
North Caucasus NCS
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN

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.

Also published as 13 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 basilaris Jord.
  • Carex depressa f. tenella Kük.
  • Carex depressa subsp. basilaris (Jord.) Kerguélen
  • Carex depressa subsp. basilaris (Jord.) Cif. & Giacom.
  • Carex depressa subsp. depressa
  • Carex depressa var. basilaris (Jord.) P.Fourn.
  • Carex depressa var. basilaris (Jord.) Asch. & Graebn.
  • Carex depressa var. neyrautii Rouy
  • Carex depressa var. neyrautii Neyraut
  • Carex halleriana subsp. basilaris (Jord.) Arcang.
  • Carex halleriana subsp. depressa (Link) Nyman
  • Carex laxiflora Merino
  • Carex merinoi Gand.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. 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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