Angiospermae - Poales - Cyperaceae
Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1753. Species Plantarum 1-1200
Parent taxon: Cyperaceae according to J. R. Thomasson 1976
See also Brown 1959, Chauhan 1991 and Knowlton 1919
Sister taxa: Carex, Caricoideae, Cladiocarya, Cladium, Cyperaceoxylon, Cyperacites, Cyperocarpus, Eleocharis, Gahnia, Liaoxia, Machaerina, Polycarpella, Schoenoplectus, Scirpitis, Scirpoideae, Scirpus, Scirpusoxylon, Scleriocarya, Volkeria
Subtaxa: Cyperus articulatus Cyperus arundinacea Cyperus braunianus Cyperus chavannesi Cyperus compressus Cyperus elegans Cyperus esculentus Cyperus filiferus Cyperus flavescens Cyperus fuscus Cyperus haspan Cyperus iria Cyperus longus Cyperus minimus Cyperus papyrus Cyperus rotundus Cyperus strigosus Cyperus unioloides
Type: Cyperus esculentus
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (9 collections), India (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)
• Pliocene of Germany (2), Italy (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Hemphillian of United States (2: California, Indiana)
• Miocene of the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: Alaska)
• Oligocene of Germany (2), the Russian Federation (1)
• Eocene of United States (1: Wyoming)
• Cretaceous of Canada (1: Alberta)
Total: 25 collections including 26 occurrences
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