Carex phacotaSpreng.

Lakeshore sedge

WFO wfo-0000349988 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, 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 phacota, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-19 / obs. 199988507
Carex phacota, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. b Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199996081
Carex phacota, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. c Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 135433150
Carex phacota, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. d Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199996054
Carex phacota, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. e Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199988486
Carex phacota, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. f Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 135432959
Carex phacota, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. g Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199995993
Carex phacota, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. h Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 135433023

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K002944316
Filed as
Carex phacota Spreng.
Det. by
Clarke, C.B.
Collected
Jacquemont, V.
Origin
IN
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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Native range 21 botanical countries

Regions where Carex phacota is native: China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Japan, Korea, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam China North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanJapanTaiwanEast HimalayaIndiaJawaLesser Sunda Is.MyanmarNepalNew GuineaPhilippinesSri LankaSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnam KoreaNansei-shoto
Native distribution of Carex phacota, 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
East Himalaya EHM ASIA-TROPICAL
India IND
Jawa JAW
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
New Guinea NWG
Philippines PHI
Sri Lanka SRL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China North-Central CHN ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Japan JAP
Korea KOR
Nansei-shoto NNS
Taiwan TAI

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 16 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 biconvexis D.Don
  • Carex cincta Franch.
  • Carex cincta var. subphacota Kük.
  • Carex fauriae Franch.
  • Carex gracilipes Miq.
  • Carex lenticularis D.Don
  • Carex lepidopristis H.Lév. & Vaniot
  • Carex phacodes C.B.Clarke
  • Carex phacota var. cincta (Franch.) Ohwi
  • Carex phacota var. gracilispica Kük.
  • Carex phacota var. shichiseitensis Ohwi
  • Carex platycarpa Hochst. ex Steud.
  • Carex pruinosa var. aristata Kuntze
  • Carex shichiseitensis Hayata
  • Carex subphacota (Kük.) Nakai
  • Carex subphacota var. glauca Honda

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.