Carex: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Poales
- Family
- Cyperaceae
- Genus
- Carex
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Carex
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Carex
Carex is a vast genus of over 2,000 species 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. Carex is the most species-rich genus in the family. The study of Carex is known as caricology.
...Carex in languages:
- Belarusian
- Асака
- Bokmål
- starrslekta
- Chinese
- 薹草屬
- Czech
- ostřice
- Czech
- tuřička
- Danish
- Star
- English
- true sedges
- Estonian
- tarnad
- French
- Carex
- German
- Seggen
- German
- Schuppenseggen
- Hungarian
- sás
- Italian
- carici
- Japanese
- スゲ属
- Korean
- 사초속
- Latvian
- Grīšļi
- Lithuanian
- Viksva
- Polish
- turzyca
- Portuguese
- Carriços
- Russian
- Осока
- Slovene
- Šaš
- Swedish
- starrsläktet
- Swedish
- starrar
- Ukrainian
- Осока
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Carex
- Carex angustilepis
- Carex bajacalifornica
- Carex boenninghausiana
- Carex brittoniana
- Carex cabralii
- Carex campylorhina
- Carex caxinensis
- Carex cephalotes
- Carex cercidascus
- Carex ceylanica
- Carex chordalis
- Carex cochinchinensis
- Carex complexa
- Carex conoides
- Carex davidsmithii
- Carex dentata
- Carex echinochloe
- Carex emmae
- Carex eremopyroides
- Carex fernandezensis
- Carex foraminata
- Carex fuscolutea
- Carex graeffeana
- Carex grandiligulata
- Carex gypsophila
- Carex haematosaccus
- Carex halophila
- Carex harrysmithii
- Carex hirtigluma
- Carex kiangsuensis
- Carex kumaonensis
- Carex lobulirostris
- Carex lucida
- Carex macrogyna
- Carex markgrafii
- Carex maubertiana
- Carex melanosperma
- Carex mesophila
- Carex mingrelica
- Carex misandra
- Carex neesiana
- Carex oederi
- Carex paneroi
- Carex planilamina
- Carex porrecta
- Carex revoluta
- Carex riloensis
- Carex rotae
- Carex saliniformis
- Carex simulans
- Carex skottsbergiana
- Carex spicigera
- Carex submollicula
- Carex talbotii
- Carex tehuacana
- Carex tibetikobresia
- Carex transcaucasica
- Carex tsoi
- Carex tumida
- Carex vallis-rosetto
- Carex vizarronensis
- Carex werdermannii
- Carex × hibernica
- Carex × interjecta
- Carex × lidii
- Carex × strictiformis
- Euthyceras
- Hangzhouenses
- Psyllophorae
- Siderosticta
- Uncinia
- Vignea
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