Carex bonplandii Kunth

Carex bonplandii Kunth, Knum. PI. 2: 380. 1837
Carex Oritabaelitbm. DantkeVid Selsl Sir v 2:J'i< 1850 (Type from Mt. Orizaba, Mi Carex BonpUmdii vat i >,.. lis. 1862, (Type from Peru.)
* Carex i Bel Linnaea 30: 1 14, 1875. (Type from Merida, Colombia.)
Carex Mandoniana Bock. Allg. Bot. Zeits, 2: 171 1896. (Type from Pro Larecaja, Bolivia.)
Darandii Back Allg Bot Zeiti 2: Ikm, 1896 (Type from Costa Rica.) Carex Bonptandii vox. kumilior Eukenth. in Bngler, Pnanzenreich 4 M : 232. 1909. (Type from Bcuaaoi
locks elongate, creeping, slender but tough, brownish, fibrillose.thi culn one to several together, sharply triangular, slender but strict, 0.5-6 dm. high, exceeding the leaves, slightly rough above, conspicuously clothed at base with the dried-up leaves of the previous year, the lower bladeless; leaves with well-developed blades 2-8 to a fertile culm, clustered at the base, the blades flat or canaliculate, 2-20 cm. long, 1-3.5 mm. wide, thick, dull-green or light-green, roughened towards the attenuate apex, the sheaths white-hyaline ventrally, prolonged upwards beyond base of blade and continuous with ligule; sterile shoots with few erect ascending leaves; spikes 3-12, well-defined but more or less aggregated, forming a head 1-3 cm. long, 0.5-2 cm. thick, the spikes ovoid-oblong, 4-12 mm. long, 3-5 mm. wide, rounded or somewhat tapering at base and apex, containing above 5-20 closely appressed perigynia with erect-appressed beaks, and the terminal one at least with inconspicuous staminate flowers beneath; lower bract or bracts dilated at base and brownish with hyaline margins, cuspidate, from 0.5-1 cm. long to equaling or even much exceeding the head, the upper scalelike ; scales ovate, lightor dark-chestnut-brown with lighter midrib and narrow hyaline margins, obtusish or acutish, as wide as but shorter than mature perigynia; perigynia plano-convex or often somewhat concave ventrally, narrowly ovate or lanceolate, thick, 3-4 mm. long, 1.251.5 mm. wide, light-green or in age brownish, subcoriaceous, very narrowly margined nearly to base, serrulate to middle, lightly several-nerved dorsally, few-nerved ventrally on lower half, short-stipitate, round-tapering at base, tapering at apex into a serrulate beak one half the length of the body or more, obliquely cut dorsally, at length bidentulate, the tip terete, chestnut-brown, smooth, hyaline at orifice, the dorsal suture conspicuous to top of achene; achenes lenticular, oblong-ovoid, 1.5-1.75 mm. long, 0.75-1 mm. wide, short-stipitate, apiculate, yellowish-brown; style slender, short, jointed with achene, deciduous; stigmas two, light-reddish-brown, slender, elongate.
Type locality: "America meridionalis," Bonpland.
Distribution: High mountains from southern Mexico to Bolivia. (Specimens examined from Vera Cruz (Mexico), Costa Rica, Colombia, Bolivia.)

Carex bonplandii, Bonpland's sedge, is a tussock-forming species of perennial sedge in the family Cyperaceae. It is native to southern parts of Mexico, parts of Central America and northern parts of South America.

Carex bonplandii est une espèce de plantes du genre Carex et de la famille des Cyperaceae.

Carex bonplandii adalah spesies tumbuhan seperti rumput yang tergolong ke dalam famili Cyperaceae. Spesies ini juga merupakan bagian dari ordo Poales. Spesies Carex bonplandii sendiri merupakan bagian dari genus Carex. Nama ilmiah dari spesies ini pertama kali diterbitkan oleh Kunth.

Carex bonplandii là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Cói. Loài này được Kunth mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1837.