Taxonomic notes on Cyperaceae of Nepal: new records of a genus, six species and other noteworthy species Author Bhandari, Prabin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0199-8656 State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China Author Chaudhary, Satyam Central Department of Environmental Sciences, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Nepal Author Neupane, Ajay Mechi Multiple Campus, Tribhuvan University, Bhadrapur, Jhapa, Nepal Author Zhou, Shi-Liang State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China slzhou@ibcas.ac.cn Author Zhang, Shu-Ren State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China srzhang@ibcas.ac.cn text PhytoKeys 2021 2021-08-09 180 141 156 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.180.67634 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.180.67634 1314-2003-180-141 14A44A7698BB5CE2975CAB8663D02E16 Scleria rugosa R.Br., Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland. 240. 1810. Type . Australia , Queensland , Endeavour River , 1770, J. Banks & D. Solander s.n. [ lectotype , designated by Simpson 2019 , pg. 207: BM (BM000833641 image!)] . Description. Plant annual. Stem suberect, culm tufted, glabrous, 3-angled, to 10 cm long. Basal sheath glabrous, leaf sheath sparsely ciliate, not winged; contraligule round, barbate. Leaf-blade linear, glabrous, 2.5-7 x 0.25-3 cm. Involucral bracts leaf-like, to 11 cm long, glabrous. Inflorescence paniculate with 1-3 distant branches, each branch, with 1-3 spikelets. Peduncle recurved, slightly winged, margin ciliate. Spikelets unisexual; male spikelets linear-lanceolate, shortly peduncled, margin ciliate, glumes to 2 mm long, lanceolate, the mid-vein of the two outer ones ciliate; female spikelets with up to 5 glumes. Glumes ovate-lanceolate, 2-4 x 1-1.5 mm, beset with long, patent hairs, vein prolonged into a mucro. Achene spherical-globose, 1.5 x 1.5 mm, whitish or greyish, smooth, shiny, apex with a whitish beak. Disc thick, lobe yellowish-brown, shallowly 3-lobed, rounded-obtuse, margin reflexed. (Fig. 2I ). Distribution. Nepal (new record), India, China, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, New Guinea, Japan, Korea and Australia. Ecology. Understorey of Schima - Castanopsis forest and edges of water canal; 71-755 m elev. Phenology. Flowering in August-September; fruiting in October-December. Specimens examined. Nepal , Kaski : Pokhara Valley , Niureni Lake , 28°11'32.96"N , 84°2'53.63"E , 755 m elev., 08 Sep 2020 , P. Bhandari 20090802 (KATH); Kaski : Pokhara Valley , Niureni Lake , 28°11'32.96"N , 84°2'53.63"E , 749 m elev., 30 Dec 2020 , P. Bhandari & N.L. Bhandari 20123007 (KATH); Jhapa : Kachankawal RM , Baniyani, 26°26'15.94"N , 88°3'1.28"E , 71 m elev., 04 Dec 2020 , S. Chaudhary 20120410 (KATH) .