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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.
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Carex praecox, the spring sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex, native to Europe, western Asia, and Mongolia. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Its diploid chromosome number is 2n=58, with some uncertainty.
They bear 1–5 female spikes, each nearly cylindrical and generally overlapping with the next, and 3–6 more densely arranged male spikes. [3] Each female spike is 3–10 cm (1.2–3.9 in) long, often with some male flowers at the tip, while male spikes are 2–6 cm (0.8–2.4 in) long. [ 3 ]
Carex davalliana, or Davall's sedge, is a species of sedge found in inland wetlands across continental Europe. [3] It is dioecious , with male and female flowers on separate plants. [ 3 ]
Carex michelii is a species of sedge (family Cyperaceae), native to central, southern and eastern Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus, and Iran. [1]
Carex atrata, called black alpine sedge, is a widespread species of flowering plant in the genus Carex, native to Greenland, [3] Iceland, and most of Europe, plus scattered locations across temperate Asia, including Anatolia, Siberia and the Himalaya, as far as Taiwan and Japan.
Carex erebus was first described in 1844 by Francis Boott as Uncinia hookeri in Joseph Hooker's Flora Antarctica. [4] [1] In 2015, in order to make the genus Carex monophyletic, the genus, Uncinia, was sunk into Carex. [4] The name, Carex hookeri had already been published in 1837 for another species. [6]