Biology:Kobresia

Short description: Genus of grass-like plants

Kobresia
Kobresia simpliciuscula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Cyperaceae
Genus:	Kobresia Willd.
Synonyms
Elyna Schrad. Cobresia Pers. Hemicarex Benth. Kobria St.-Lag. Holmia Börner Blysmocarex N.A.Ivanova

Kobresia is a genus of plants in the sedge family. They are sometimes called bog sedges. These perennial sedges are quite similar to Carex species in appearance. The genus is widespread across much of Europe, Asia and North America, with many species native to the Himalayas.

Species

• Kobresia burangensis Y.C.Yang – Tibet
• Kobresia capillifolia (Decne.) C.B.Clarke – Central Asia, Himalayas, Tuva region of Siberia, Mongolia, central and western China including Tibet and Xinjiang
• Kobresia cercostachys (Franch.) C.B.Clarke – Eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, Yunnan
• Kobresia condensata (Kük.) S.R.Zhang & Noltie – Sichuan, Yunnan
• Kobresia cuneata Kük – Tibet to central China
• Kobresia curticeps (C.B.Clarke) Kük. in H.G.A.Engler – Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan
• Kobresia curvirostris (C.B.Clarke) C.B.Clarke in J.D.Hooker – Bhutan, Arunachal Pradesh, Thailand
• Kobresia duthiei C.B.Clarke in J.D.Hooker – Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, northern and eastern India
• Kobresia esbirajbhandarii Rajbh. & H.Ohba – Nepal
• Kobresia esenbeckii (Kunth) Noltie – Tibet, Yunnan, Nepal, Bhutan, northern and eastern India, Myanmar
• Kobresia falcata F.T.Wang & Tang ex P.C.Li – Sichuan, Gansu
• Kobresia filicina (C.B.Clarke) C.B.Clarke in J.D.Hooker – Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, northern and eastern India
• Kobresia filifolia (Turcz.) C.B.Clarke – Siberia, Mongolia, Gansu, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Shanxi
• Kobresia fissiglumis C.B.Clarke in J.D.Hooker – Tibet, Yunnan, Nepal, Bhutan, northern and eastern India
• Kobresia fragilis C.B.Clarke – Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, Qinghai, Sichuan, Yunnan, Sikkim
• Kobresia gammiei C.B.Clarke – Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet
• Kobresia gandakiensis Rajbh. & H.Ohba – Nepal, Sikkim
• Kobresia graminifolia C.B.Clarke – Nepal, Gansu, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan
• Kobresia harae Rajbh. & H.Ohba – Nepal
• Kobresia hohxilensis R.F.Huang in S.G.Wu & Z.J.Feng – Gansu, Qinghai, Tibet
• Kobresia humilis (C.A.Mey. ex Trautv.) Serg. in V.L.Komarov – Caucasus, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Himalayas, Nepal, Pakistan, Tibet, Xinjiang, Mongolia
• Kobresia inflata P.C.Li in S.Y.Jin & Y.L.Chen – Bhutan, Tibet, Yunnan
• Kobresia kanaii Rajbh. & H.Ohba – Nepal
• Kobresia kansuensis Kük – Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, Gansu, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan
• Kobresia karakorumensis Dickoré – Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir, Tibet, Xinjiang
• Kobresia kobresioidea (Kük.) J.Kern – Sumatra
• Kobresia kuekenthaliana Hand.-Mazz. – Sichuan
• Kobresia laxa Nees in R.Wight – Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir, Tibet, Bhutan
• Kobresia littledalei C.B.Clarke – Sichuan, Tibet
• Kobresia loliacea F.T.Wang & Tang ex P.C.Li – Tibet, Yunnan
• Kobresia macrantha Boeckeler – Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Nepal, Tibet
• Kobresia macrolepis Meinsh. – Caucasus
• Kobresia mallae Rajbh. & H.Ohba – Nepal
• Kobresia myosuroides (Vill.) Fiori in A.Fiori & al. – northern and central Europe and Asia from Spain and Iceland to Korea and the Kuril Islands, including Siberia, China, Scandinavia, Germany, Italy, etc.; also Greenland, Alaska, much of Canada and the mountains of the Western United States
• Kobresia nepalensis (Nees) Kük. in H.G.A.Engler – Himalayas from Pakistan to Bhutan; Tibet, Yunnan
• Kobresia nitens C.B.Clarke – Pakistan, Nepal, northern India
• Kobresia prainii Kük – Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan
• Kobresia pusilla N.A.Ivanova – Gansu, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Sichuan, Tibet
• Kobresia pygmaea (C.B.Clarke) C.B.Clarke in J.D.Hooker – much of China; Himalayas from Pakistan to Myanmar
• Kobresia rcsrivastavae Jana – Uttarakhand
• Kobresia robusta Maxim. – Mongolia, Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Tibet
• Kobresia royleana (Nees) Boeckeler – Central Asia, Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan, Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Tibet, Yunnan Afghanistan, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand
• Kobresia sanguinea (Boott) Raymond – Pakistan, Kashmir
• Kobresia schoenoides (C.A.Mey.) Steud – Caucasus, Iran, Central Asia, Himalayas, China
• Kobresia setschwanensis Hand.-Mazz. – Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan
• Kobresia sibirica (Turcz.) Boeckeler – Arctic Russia, Mongolia, Alaska, Arctic Canada, British Columbia, Colorado, Wyoming
• Kobresia sikkimensis Kük. in H.G.A.Engler – Sikkim, Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, Assam
• Kobresia simpliciuscula (Wahlenb.) Mack. – northern and central Europe from Britain and Spain to Kamchatka; Alaska, Greenland, much of Canada, mountains of western United States
• Kobresia smirnovii N.A.Ivanova – Altai, Kazakhstan, Mongolia
• Kobresia squamiformis Y.C.Yang – Sikkim, Tibet, Gansu
• Kobresia tibetica Maxim. – Tibet, Xinjiang, Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan
• Kobresia tunicata Hand.-Mazz. – Sichuan, Yunnan
• Kobresia uncinioides (Boott) C.B.Clarke in J.D.Hooker – Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Tibet, Yunnan
• Kobresia vaginosa C.B.Clarke in J.D.Hooker – Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, Yunnan
• Kobresia vidua (Boott ex C.B.Clarke) Kük. in H.G.A.Engler – Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, Yunnan, Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan
• Kobresia woodii Noltie – Bhutan, Tibet
• Kobresia yadongensis Y.C.Yang – Tibet
• Kobresia yangii S.R.Zhang – Sichuan

External links

• Jepson Manual Treatment
• USDA Plants Profile
• Flora of Pakistan

Wikidata ☰ Q162916 entry