Carex Linnaeus 1753 (sedge)

Angiospermae - Poales - Cyperaceae

Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1753. Species Plantarum (exhibentes Plantas Rite Cognitas ad Genera Relatas cum Diferentiis Specificis, Nominibus Trivialibus, Synonymis Selectis, Locis Natalibus secundum Systema Sexuale digestas). 1-1200

Parent taxon: Cyperaceae according to Y. J. Huang et al. 2021

See also Berry 1914, Chauhan 1991, Knowlton 1919 and Ozaki 1974

Sister taxa: Bisboeckelera, Capitularina, Caricoideae, Cladiocarya, Cladium, Coleochloa, Cyperaceoxylon, Cyperacites, Cyperocarpus, Cyperus, Eleocharis, Gahnia, Krenakia, Liaoxia, Machaerina, Polycarpella, Schoenoplectus, Scirpitis, Scirpoideae, Scirpus, Scirpusoxylon, Scleriocarya, Trianoptiles, Volkeria

Subtaxa: Carex acuta Carex aquatilis Carex arenaria Carex berthoudi Carex burrardiana Carex canescens Carex capillaris Carex cespitosa Carex clarkii Carex digitata Carex dioica Carex elongata Carex filiformis Carex flava Carex folliculata Carex globularis Carex hirta Carex leporina Carex limosa Carex loliacea Carex magellanica Carex montana Carex muricata Carex pallescens Carex panicea Carex pilulifera Carex pseudocyperus Carex pulicaris Carex saxatilis Carex servata Carex squarrosa Carex uliginosa Carex utriculata Carex vancouverensis Carex vesicaria Carex vulpina

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Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Greenland (1 collection), India (2), Japan (1), the United Kingdom (14), United States (2: Florida, Washington)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)

• Pliocene of China (1), Germany (10), Italy (1), the Russian Federation (1)

• Hemphillian of United States (1: Indiana)

• Miocene to Pliocene of France (1), Germany (1), Japan (2)

• Miocene of Germany (46), Japan (7), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (16), Switzerland (5), United States (2: Alaska, Nebraska)

• Oligocene of the Russian Federation (6)

• Tertiary of Japan (2), the Russian Federation (1)

• Cretaceous of United States (1: South Carolina)

Total: 126 collections including 283 occurrences

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