Carex maculataBoott

WFO wfo-0000348640 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 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 maculata, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-04-20 / obs. 135487073
Carex maculata, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. b Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 135487078
Carex maculata, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. c Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 135487075

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Native range 20 botanical countries

Regions where Carex maculata is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Inner Mongolia, Japan, Korea, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, India, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, New South Wales, Queensland, New Caledonia, Samoa China South-CentralChina SoutheastInner MongoliaJapanTaiwanIndiaJawaLesser Sunda Is.MalayaNew GuineaSri LankaSulawesiSumateraThailandNew South WalesQueenslandNew Caledonia KoreaNansei-shotoSamoa
Native distribution of Carex maculata, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
India IND ASIA-TROPICAL
Jawa JAW
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
New Guinea NWG
Sri Lanka SRL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Inner Mongolia CHI
Japan JAP
Korea KOR
Nansei-shoto NNS
Taiwan TAI
New South Wales NSW AUSTRALASIA
Queensland QLD
New Caledonia NWC PACIFIC
Samoa SAM

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 9 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 chilosaccus C.B.Clarke
  • Carex elibates Nelmes
  • Carex latitans H.Lév. & Vaniot
  • Carex maculata var. neurochlamys (F.Muell.) Kük.
  • Carex malacocarpa H.Lév. & Vaniot
  • Carex micans Boott
  • Carex neurochlamys F.Muell.
  • Carex samoensis Boeckeler
  • Carex sieboldii Miq.

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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.