Carex breviculmis

{{Short description|Species of grass-like plant}}

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|genus=Carex

|species=breviculmis

|authority=R.Br.Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland.: 242 (1810)

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• Carex aphanandra Franch. & Sav.
• Carex boniana Boeckeler
• Carex breviculmis subsp. fibrillosa (Franch. & Sav.) T.Koyama
• Carex breviculmis var. stipitata Kük.
• Carex breviculmis var. typica Domin
• Carex brevis S.T.Blake
• Carex bulbostylis Kük.
• Carex candolleana H.Lév. & Vaniot
• Carex conorrhyncha Nelmes
• Carex discoidea Boott
• Carex eggytera Steud.
• Carex fibrillosa Franch. & Sav.
• Carex filiculmis Franch. & Sav.
• Carex horikawae K.Okamoto
• Carex langsdorffii Boott
• Carex leucochlora Bunge
• Carex leucochlora f. fibrillosa (Franch. & Sav.) K.T.Fu
• Carex leucochlora var. horikawae (K.Okamoto) Katsuy.
• Carex leucochlora var. morrisonicola (Hayata) Katsuy.
• Carex lonchophora Ohwi
• Carex morrisonicola Hayata
• Carex pallens Z.P.Wang
• Carex perangusta Ohwi
• Carex perciliata (Kük.) Nelmes
• Carex puberula Boott
• Carex royleana Nees
• Carex tosaensis Akiyama
• Carex tricholoma S.T.Blake
• Carex wardiana H.Lév. & Vaniot

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Carex breviculmis, called the Asian shortstem sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex, native to Asia from the Indian subcontinent to Southeast Asia, China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, north as far as Khabarovsk Krai, and Malesia, New Guinea, Australia, Norfolk Island and New Zealand.{{cite web |url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:298926-1 |title=Carex breviculmis R.Br. |author= |date=2017 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=15 January 2021 }} It has been introduced to the US state of Mississippi.{{cite web |url=https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=CABR5 |title=Plant profile for Carex breviculmis R. Br. Asian shortstem sedge |author= |date= |website=Plants Database |publisher=USDA |access-date=15 January 2021 |quote=Other Common Names: blue sedge }} Typically found in forests, it is quite shade tolerant.{{cite journal |title=PacBio single-molecule long-read sequencing shed new light on the complexity of the Carex breviculmis transcriptome |year=2019 |last1=Teng |first1=Ke |last2=Teng |first2=Wenjun |last3=Wen |first3=Haifeng |last4=Yue |first4=Yuesen |last5=Guo |first5=Weier |last6=Wu |first6=Juying |last7=Fan |first7=Xifeng |journal=BMC Genomics |volume=20 |issue=1 |page=789 |doi=10.1186/s12864-019-6163-6 |pmid=31664898 |pmc=6821003 |doi-access=free }}