Carex steudneriBoeckeler

WFO wfo-0000351560 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 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 steudneri, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. a Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2019-03-18 / obs. 34419507
Carex steudneri, photographed by Presha Soogrim
fig. b Presha Soogrim, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169691641
Carex steudneri, photographed by Sunčana Bradley
fig. c Sunčana Bradley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165287432
Carex steudneri, photographed by Presha Soogrim
fig. d Presha Soogrim, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169691633
Carex steudneri, photographed by Sunčana Bradley
fig. e Sunčana Bradley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165287445
Carex steudneri, photographed by Presha Soogrim
fig. f Presha Soogrim, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169691624
Carex steudneri, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. g Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 34419510

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K000363464
Filed as
Carex steudneri Boeckeler
Det. by
Clarke, C.B.
Collected
Schimper 1863-01-01
Origin
ET
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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 13 botanical countries

Regions where Carex steudneri is native: Cape Provinces, DR Congo, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Zimbabwe Cape ProvincesDR CongoEswatiniEthiopiaKenyaKwaZulu-NatalLesothoMalawiMozambiqueNorthern ProvincesSudan-South SudanTanzaniaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Carex steudneri, 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
Cape Provinces CPP AFRICA
DR Congo ZAI
Eswatini SWZ
Ethiopia ETH
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Lesotho LES
Malawi MLW
Mozambique MOZ
Northern Provinces TVL
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Zimbabwe ZIM

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 3 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 huttoniana Kük.
  • Carex wahlenbergiana var. schimperi Boott
  • Carex zuluensis C.B.Clarke

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.