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.

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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

Cyperaceae

Sibling Taxa

Carex

Carex: taxon details and analytics

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Carex

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Carex: taxon details and analytics

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Carex

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