Cyperaceae Juss.
Carex erebus K.A.Ford , legitimate, scientific
Global Carex Group (2015), Making Carex monophyletic (Cyperaceae, tribe Cariceae): a new broader circumscription. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 179: 30 APC [nom. nov.]
replaced synonym: Uncinia hookeri Boott legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Uncinia riparia var. hookeri (Boott) Kük. legitimate
  • APC Comment: Treated as Uncinia hookeri in Tas.
  • APC Dist.: MI
  • Etymology: "Named for the ship HMS Erebus on which Joseph Dalton Hooker sailed on the Voyage to the Antarctic 1839–1843, during which this species was first collected from the Auckland Islands."
  • Comment: nom. nov., non Carex hookeri Kunth (1837).