taxonID	type	description	language	source
AC4B18474874FB0608AC4B9F149AD6EF.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis: — The new species seems to be closely related to C. dielsiana Kükenthal (1913: 10), currently placed in section Decorae (Kük.) Ohwi (1936: 338), from which it differs by its strongly canaliculate leaves, less than 1 mm wide (ca. 2 mm in C. dielsiana; Dai et al. 2010). Type: — CHINA. Yunnan. Diqing prefecture, Zhondiang county. Geza to Wengsui, 28 ° 22 ’ 07 ’’ N 99 ° 45 ’ 27 ’’ E, 3569 m, 21 Jun 1994, Alpine Garden Society China Expedition 554 (Holotype: E- 424751!). Figs. 1 – 2. Perennial, cespitose. Stems 20 – 25 cm long, 0.4 – 0.6 mm wide, cylindrical, sulcate, smooth. Leaves basal or 1 cauline, shorter than stems, the longest ones up to 10 cm long, the cauline ones with a short blade up to 1.5 – 3.5 cm, linear, 0.5 – 0.7 mm wide, flattish or slightly canaliculated, stiff, with the margins antrorsely scabrid; ligule of cauline leaves up to 3 mm long, pale orange, subacute; basal sheaths cream colored, with a short mucro-like blade or bladeless, old leaves also persistent, with the dry blades curled, brownish. Inflorescence 1 – 2 spikes, the terminal androgynous, the lower (if present) female, separated from the upper from a 6.5 – 8.3 cm internode; terminal spike with a glume-like fertile bract, 4 – 7 mm long, with scarious brownish sides, a greenish 3 - nerved keel, and hyaline margins, with the apex prolonged into a scabrid mucro or arista; lower spike bract with a short linear bract with a ca. 1.5 cm long blade and a 1.7 – 1.9 cm long sheath with the opening brownish-tinged and the margin hyaline. Terminal spike 23 – 28 mm long, cylindrical, the male part 15 – 19 × 1.2 – 2 mm, the female part 8 – 12 × 2 – 3 mm, dense, utricles ascending, 8 – 14. Lower spike 9 – 9.5 × 2 – 2.5 mm, obovate, erect, with a 5.3 – 7 cm peduncle, lax, utricles ascending, 5 – 6. Male glumes 4.2 – 4.5 × 1.2 – 1.5 mm, oblong, brownish, with a paler mid nerve and broadly hyaline margins, acute. Female glumes 2.6 – 3.2 × 1.8 – 2.4, sub-rhomboid, brownish, with a greenish 1 - nerved midrib and broad hyaline margins, acute. Stigmas 3. Utricles 4 – 5 × 1 – 1.2 mm, narrowly elliptical, obscurely trigonous, flattish, glabrous, shining, with only the two lateral nerves prominent, glabrous, sparsely scabrid on the nerves from the upper half or only on the top, yellowish, attenuated into a beak 0.7 – 1 mm long, obscurely bidentate, reddish at the tip and with a scarious border. Achenes 2.5 – 2.6 × 0.8 – 0.8, narrowly obovate, trigonous, yellowish, with a 0.3 × 0.2 mm cylindrical style base, and attenuating towards the base sometimes contracting into a false stipe.	en	Jiménez-Mejías, Pedro, Roalson, Eric H. (2017): Two new Asian species of Carex (Cyperaceae). Phytotaxa 298 (3): 283-288, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.298.3.8, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.298.3.8
AC4B18474874FB0608AC4B9F149AD6EF.taxon	etymology	Etymology: — From the Latin “ barba ”, beard, and yak (Bos mutus), the long-haired bovid found in mountain regions of SE Asia and the Himalayas, in reference to the dry curled old leaves, that resemble the wool of these animals.	en	Jiménez-Mejías, Pedro, Roalson, Eric H. (2017): Two new Asian species of Carex (Cyperaceae). Phytotaxa 298 (3): 283-288, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.298.3.8, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.298.3.8
AC4B18474876FB0008AC4BAD16FDD5AE.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis: — This distinctive species superficially resembles the co-occurring C. nakaoana Koyama (1954: 112), and also C. fuliginosa Schkuhr (1801: 91), which is absent from the Himalayas. From C. nakaoana it differs by having 2 stigmas instead of 3, by having the terminal spike gynecandrous rather than all male as in C. nakaoana, and because the utricles are progressively attenuated into a linear beak instead a deltoid one as in C. nakaoana (Dai et al. 2010). From C. fuliginosa it differs by having 2 stigmas instead of 3, and the rhizomes long instead cespitose, (Chater 1980; Egorova 1999; Ball et al. 2002). Type: — NEPAL. Bagmati zone, Rasuwa Distr., Paldol Base Camp (4300 m) — a Krharka (4050 m). 28 ° 13 ’ N 85 ° 12 ’ E. 3 Aug 1994. F. Miyamoto et al. 10160 (Holotype: A!; isotype: A!). Figs. 3 – 4. Perennial, with long rhizomes. Stems 19 – 25 cm long, 0.6 mm wide below the inflorescence, obscurely trigonous, almost cylindrical, sulcate, smooth. Leaves basal and cauline, shorter than stems, the uppermost ones up to 7.5 – 15 cm long, the widest ones 2.6 – 4.3 mm wide, flat or slightly incurved outwards, apparently hypostomatic, antrorsely scabrid on edges; ligule of cauline leaves 2 – 12 mm, pale orangey to yellowish or whitish, acute; basal sheaths creamy, sometimes red-brownish tinged, bladeless, splitting in fibers. Inflorescence 4 – 10 cm, with 3 – 5 (often 4) spikes, the uppermost gynecandrous, the other female, loosely disposed at the top of the stems; lowermost bract shortly leafy to setaceous, shorter than the inflorescence 1.3 – 5.5 cm × 0.5 – 1 mm, flattish, with a sheath (0.5) 1 – 2 cm long; second lowermost bract setaceous, shorter than its spike, sheathless. Uppermost spike 17 – 25 × 6 – 7 mm, subclavate, with the male and female parts subequal in length, with a peduncle 2 – 8 mm long. Lateral spikes 12 – 33 × 3 – 5 mm, narrowly obovate, dense, the lowermost with a peduncle 2.2 – 3 cm long, flexuous or suberect, utricles ascending, 15 – 45. Glumes 3.5 – 4.5 × 1.2 mm, obovate to narrowly obovate, dark purplish with a greenish midrib, obtuse, scabrid at the tip on the margins and midrib. Stigmas 2. Utricles 4.5 – 5 × 1.2 – 1.5 mm, elliptical, flattish, with only the two lateral nerves prominent, sparsely hairy, yellowish, progressively becoming purplish on the abaxial side from the upper half or the upper third up to the beak, but keeping lateral nerves always yellowish, gradually attenuated into a beak 1.2 – 1.5 mm long, linear, flattish, scabrid, bidentate. No ripe achenes found, the inmature achenes studied conspicuously stipitate, with a stipe ca. 0.5 mm long.	en	Jiménez-Mejías, Pedro, Roalson, Eric H. (2017): Two new Asian species of Carex (Cyperaceae). Phytotaxa 298 (3): 283-288, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.298.3.8, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.298.3.8
AC4B18474876FB0008AC4BAD16FDD5AE.taxon	etymology	Etymology: — From the Latin “ herba ”, herb or grass, and “ coelus ” (genitive coeli), sky or heaven, in reference to the extreme elevations this species has been found. Observations: — This new species is unique among the Asian species grouped under section Aulocystis Dumortier (1827: 147) by the combination of gynecandrous spikes, 2 stigmas, and utricles hairy, attenuated into a linear beak (see Noltie 1994; Egorova 1999; Dai et al. 2010).	en	Jiménez-Mejías, Pedro, Roalson, Eric H. (2017): Two new Asian species of Carex (Cyperaceae). Phytotaxa 298 (3): 283-288, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.298.3.8, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.298.3.8
