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The genus Carex, the sedges, is one of the largest genera of flowering plants, containing over 2000 species, according to the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. [1] In May 2015, the Global Carex Group argued for a broader circumscription of Carex , which added all the species formerly classified in Cymophyllus (1 species), Kobresia (c. 60 species ...
Carex is a vast genus of over 2,000 species [2] of grass-like plants in the family Cyperaceae, commonly known as sedges (or seg, in older books).Other members of the family Cyperaceae are also called sedges, however those of genus Carex may be called true sedges, and it is the most species-rich genus in the family.
Pages in category "Carex" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 921 total. ... List of Carex species; A. Carex × abitibiana; Carex ...
The species was first formally described by the botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in 1813 as a part of the work Catalogus Plantarum Horti Botanici Monspeliensis.It has three homotypic synonyms; Carex fulva, Trasus fulvus and Trasus hostianus and 13 heterotypic synonyms including; Carex armena, Carex biformis, Carex fulvescens and Carex subsalsa.
Carex subspathacea f. stricta Drejer. Carex subspathacea , called Hoppner's sedge , is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex , native to coastal salt marshes of the Arctic and northwest Pacific Oceans; Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, northern and far eastern Russia, Korea, and Japan. [ 2 ]
Carex is a subgenus of the sedge genus Carex. It is the largest of the four traditionally recognised subgenera, containing around 1400 of the 2000 species in the genus. [ 1 ] Its members are characterised by the presence of one or more exclusively male (staminate) terminal spikes , quite dissimilar in appearance from the lateral female ...
Carex lophocarpa is a tussock-forming species of perennial sedge in the family Cyperaceae. [1] It was first described in 1908 by Charles Baron Clarke. [2] [3] It is native to eastern Australia, where it is found in both Queensland and New South Wales, [1] [4] in damp places in woodlands and forests. [4]
Carex: Species: C. speciosa. Binomial name; Carex speciosa. Kunth. Carex speciosa is a tussock-forming species of perennial sedge in the family Cyperaceae.