| Carex acutata | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Cyperaceae |
| Genus: | Carex |
| Species: | C. acutata |
| Binomial name | |
| Carex acutata | |
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Carex acutata is a species of sedge, a perennial flowering plant in the family Cyperaceae. [1] It was first formally named by Francis Boott in 1846. [2]
Carex acutata is native to South America. [1] In Bolivia it occurs at elevations of 3,500–4,000 m (11,500–13,100 ft). [3] It is distributed in mountanous habitats of the Tropical Andes, from Bolivia to Venezuela. [4]
The name Carex tessellata was included in the Ecuadorian Red List as a “mysterious species known from a single collection of uncertain precedence”. The name was synonymised in 2020 to Carex acutata. [4]
Uncinia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cyperaceae, known as hook-sedges in Australia and as hook grasses or bastard grasses in New Zealand. The genus is characterised by the presence of a long hook formed by an extension of the rachilla, which is used to attach the fruit to passing animals (epizoochory), especially birds, and it is this feature which gives the genus its name, from the Latin uncinus, meaning a hook or barb.
Carex archeri, known as Archer's sedge, is a species of sedge in the genus Carex, endemic to south-eastern Australia.
Carex banksii is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family, Cyperaceae. Carex banksii is native to South America and was first formally named by Francis Boott in 1839.
Carex barbata is a Tasmanian species of sedge that was first formally named by Francis Boott in 1858, in his Illustrations of the genus Carex. A specimen collected in February 1839 by R. C. Gunn is the only known collection of this species. In 1909, it was reclassified as a variety of Carex gunniana, but Kew's Plants of the World Online maintains it as a separate species.
Carex breweri, known as Brewer's sedge, is a species of sedge that grows on dry rocky or gravel slopes in the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Mountains of the western United States, as far north as Mount Hood. It is classified in Carex sect. Inflatae, alongside Carex engelmannii and Carex subnigricans.
Carex capillacea, common name yellowleaf sedge in Tasmania, is a species of sedge found in Assam, the far east of Russia, New Guinea, south east Australia, New Zealand, Malesia, China, Japan and India.
Carex conjuncta, known as soft fox sedge, is a species of sedge that was first formally named by Francis Boott in 1862. It is endemic to the central and eastern United States.
Carex gunniana is an Australia species of sedge that was first described in 1845 by Boott in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. It is native to eastern Australia and Tasmania.
Carex purdiei is a tussock-forming species of perennial sedge in the family Cyperaceae. It is native to southern parts of Central America and northern parts of South America.
Carex solandri is a species of sedge that was first described by Francis Boott in 1853.
Carex fascicularis, commonly known as tassel sedge, is a species of sedge of the family Cyperaceae that is native to Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea.
Carex glaucescens is a perennial sedge that belongs to the family Cyperaceae. The common name of this sedge is the southern waxy sedge due to the blue-grey, waxy appearance of the sheaths and fruits. The term "glaucous" means "gleaming" or "grey" in Latin; the specific epithet of C. glaucescens is derived from this term. Carex glaucescens is a native plant in North America and is an obligate wetland species in the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains, Eastern Mountains and Piedmont, and the Great Plains.
Carex erebus is a member of the sedge family and is found on the Antarctic Islands of Australia and New Zealand.
Carex muehlenbergii is a species of flowering plant, it is a type of sedge. It is a grass-like plant in the family Cyperaceae. Its common names include sand sedge, Muhlenberg's sedge.
Carex tristachya, called the shiny-spike sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex, native to south-central and southeast China, Korea, Japan, the Ryukyus, the Philippines, Borneo, and New Guinea. Its seeds are dispersed by ants.
Carex punctata, the dotted sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the Cyperaceae family. It is native to Macaronesia, northwest Africa, southern, central, and northern Europe, and Turkey. Its chromosome number is 2n=68.
Carex fuliginosa, the short-leaved sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cyperaceae, with a circumpolar distribution, and found in mountains further south; such as the eastern Alps, the Carpathians and the Rockies. It is wind-pollinated.
Carex inclinis is a tussock-forming species of perennial sedge in the family Cyperaceae. It is native to Nepal and Brunei.
Carex torta, the twisted sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cyperaceae, native to eastern Canada and the central and eastern United States. It is a specialist on gravelly and rocky stream and river banks, moreso when recently scoured.
Carex interrupta is a tussock-forming species of perennial sedge in the family Cyperaceae. It is native to south eastern parts of Canada and north eastern parts of the United States.
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