Carex siderosticta

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

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|image=Carex siderosticta - Berlin Botanical Garden - IMG 8647.JPG

|parent=Carex subg. Siderosticta

|taxon=Carex siderosticta

|authority=Hance

|synonyms_ref={{cite POWO |id=302252-1 |title=Carex siderosticta Hance |access-date=4 May 2022 }}

|synonyms=

• Carex ciliatomarginata {{small|Nakai}}
• Carex platyphylla {{small|Franch.}}
• Carex siderosticta f. albomarginata {{small|Y.N.Lee}}
• Carex siderosticta var. stenophylla {{small|(Kitag.) Kitag.}}
• Pseudocarex plantaginea {{small|Miq.}}

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Carex siderosticta is a species of sedge native to East Asia.{{cite book |url=http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200026645 |chapter=Carex siderosticta Hance, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 13: 89. 1873 |title=Acoraceae through Cyperaceae |series=Flora of China |volume=23 |page=347 |author1=Dai Lunkai |author2=Liang Songyun |author3=Zhang Shuren |author4=Tang Yancheng |author5=Tetsuo Koyama |author6=Gordon C. Tucker |author7=David A. Simpson |author8=Henry J. Noltie |author9=Mark T. Strong |author10=Jeremy J. Bruhl |author11=Karen L. Wilson |author12=A. Muthama Muasya |year=1994 |isbn=978-1-930723-99-3 |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden Press}}{{cite journal |author1=T. Yan-Cheng |author2=X. Qiu-Yun |year=1989 |title=Cytological studies of Carex siderosticta Hance (Cyperaceae) and its importance in phytogeography |journal=Cathaya |volume=1 |pages=49–60}} It is the only species of Carex known to produce "pseudo-lateral" culms, which appear to be lateral, but derive from the apical meristem.{{cite journal |author=John M. Bernard |year=1990 |title=Life history and vegetative reproduction in Carex |journal=Canadian Journal of Botany |volume=68 |issue=7 |pages=1441–1448 |doi=10.1139/b90-182}}{{cite journal |author1=Tang Yancheng |author2=Liang Songyun |year=1987 |title=On Carex siderosticta with special reference to the term stem lateral in caricology |journal=Acta Botanica Yunnanica |volume=9 |issue=3 |pages=1–3 |url=http://journal.kib.ac.cn/CN/article/downloadArticleFile.do?attachType=PDF&id=2223 |format=PDF}} It is the type species of Carex subg. Siderosticta.{{Citation |mode=cs1 |last1=The Global Carex Group |date=2020 |title=A new classification of Carex (Cyperaceae) subgenera supported by a HybSeq backbone phylogenetic tree |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=194 |issue=2 |pages=141–163 |doi=10.1093/botlinnean/boaa042 |hdl=10261/233485 |hdl-access=free }}