Biology:Carex pseudocyperus
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Short description: Species of grass-like plant
Carex pseudocyperus | |
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Male spike (top) and three female spikes (bottom) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Clade: | Commelinids |
Order: | Poales |
Family: | Cyperaceae |
Genus: | Carex |
Section: | Carex sect. Vesicariae |
Species: | C. pseudocyperus
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Binomial name | |
Carex pseudocyperus |
Carex pseudocyperus is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family known by the common name cyperus sedge[1] or hop sedge.[2] It grows in marshes, swamps, and the margins of ponds, rivers and canals. The stems can be up to 90 centimetres (35 in) with one male spike and 3 to 5 pendulous female spikes, and bright yellow-green leaves to 1.2 metres (3 ft 11 in).[2][3][4]
References
- ↑ (xls) BSBI List 2007, Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland, https://bsbi.org/download/3542/, retrieved 2014-10-17
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Fitter, Richard; Fitter, Alastair; Farrer, Ann (1984). Collins Guide to the Grasses, Sedges, Rushes and Ferns of Britain and Northern Europe. London. p. 142. ISBN 0-00-219136-9.
- ↑ Stace, Clive A. (2010). New flora of the British isles (Third ed.). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. p. 965. ISBN 9780521707725. https://archive.org/details/newflorabritishi00stac.
- ↑ "Online Atlas of the British and Irish Flora". http://www.brc.ac.uk/plantatlas/index.php?q=plant/Carex-pseudocyperus.
Wikidata ☰ Q159021 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carex pseudocyperus.
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