Carex muricata

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

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|image=Carex muricata - siiltarn Keilas.jpg

|genus=Carex

|species=muricata

|authority=L.Sp. Pl. 2: 974 (1753)

|synonyms_ref={{cite web |url=http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-228843 |title=Carex muricata L. |website=The Plant List |access-date=13 June 2020}}

|synonyms={{Collapsible list |

• Carex astracanica Willd. ex Kunth
• Carex divulsa Gaudin [Illegitimate]
• Carex divulsa subsp. orsiniana (Ten.) K.Richt.
• Carex intermedia Retz.
• Carex muricata var. alpina Gaudin
• Carex muricata subsp. lamprocarpa (Wallr.) Celak.
• Carex muricata var. lamprocarpa Wallr.
• Carex muricata subsp. muricata
• Carex muricata var. muricata
• Carex muricata subsp. orsiniana (Ten.) Nyman
• Carex orsiniana Ten.
• Carex pairae subsp. borealis Hyl.
• Carex pairae var. javanica Nelmes
• Carex serotina Ten. [Illegitimate]
• Carex stellulata M.Bieb. [Illegitimate]
• Carex tenuissima Schur [Illegitimate]
• Carex tergestina Hoppe ex Boott
• Carex viridis Spenn. [Illegitimate]
• Carex vulpina Hohen. [Illegitimate]
• Caricina muricata (L.) St.-Lag.
• Vignea altissima Schur
• Vignea muricata (L.) Rchb.
• Vignea muricata subsp. lamprocarpa (Wallr.) Soják
• Vignea tenuissima Schur

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Carex muricata, the rough sedge or prickly sedge (a name it shares with other species), is a species of Carex found in Europe and western Asia as far as the Himalayas. It has been introduced elsewhere. Poorly studied, Carex muricata is considered a species aggregate.{{cite journal |last1=David |first1=R. W. |date=1976 |title=Nomenclature of the British taxa of the Carex muricata L. aggregate |journal=Watsonia |volume=11 |pages=59–65 }} The aggregate has been subject to a great deal of taxonomic confusion over the years and has yet to be fully resolved.{{cite journal |last1=Molina |first1=Ana |last2=Acedo |first2=Carmen |last3=Llamas |first3=Félix |date=21 February 2008 |title=Taxonomy and new taxa of the Carex divulsa aggregate in Eurasia (section Phaestoglochin, Cyperaceae) |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=156 |issue=3 |pages=385–409 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.2007.00760.x |doi-access=free }}

{{Gallery|Carex muricata — Flora Batava — Volume v13.jpg|Botanical illustration}}