Carex reuterianaBoiss.

WFO wfo-0000350658 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 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 reuteriana, photographed by José Luis Camaño
fig. a José Luis Camaño, CC0 1.0 / 2021-04-17 / obs. 151800343

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 2276945
Filed as
Carex reuteriana Boiss.
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
B. Rainha 1954-05-14
Origin
PT
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Carex reuteriana is native: Algeria, Morocco, Portugal, Spain AlgeriaMoroccoPortugalSpain
Native distribution of Carex reuteriana, 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
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Morocco MOR
Portugal POR EUROPE
Spain SPA

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 20 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 acuta subsp. broteriana (Samp.) Rivas Mart.
  • Carex acuta subsp. mauritanica (Boiss. & Reut.) A.Asensi & B.Díez
  • Carex acuta subsp. reuteriana (Boiss.) Rivas Mart. & J.M.Pizarro
  • Carex acuta var. broteriana (Samp.) Rivas Mart.
  • Carex acuta var. reuteriana (Boiss.) S.Rivas Martinez & J.Pizarro
  • Carex broteriana Samp.
  • Carex elata subsp. mauritanica (Boiss. & Reut.) A.Galán
  • Carex elata subsp. reuteriana (Boiss.) Luceño & Aedo
  • Carex elata subsp. tartessiana Luceño & Aedo
  • Carex fusca var. broteroana (Samp.) C.Vicioso
  • Carex fusca var. reuteriana (Boiss.) C.Vicioso
  • Carex goodenowii var. reuteriana (Boiss.) Daveau
  • Carex gracilis f. reuteriana (Boiss.) Kük.
  • Carex gracilis subsp. broterana (Samp.) M.Laínz
  • Carex gracilis var. mauritanica (Boiss. & Reut.) C.Vicioso
  • Carex mauritanica Boiss. & Reut.
  • Carex nigra subsp. broterana (Samp.) Rivas Mart.
  • Carex reuteriana subsp. tartessiana (Luceño & Aedo) Rivas Mart.
  • Carex stricta var. microstachya Merino
  • Carex vulgaris subsp. reuteriana (Boiss.) K.Richt.

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.