Carex vestita | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Clade: | Commelinids |
Order: | Poales |
Family: | Cyperaceae |
Genus: | Carex |
Species: | C. vestita |
Binomial name | |
Carex vestita Willd. | |
Synonyms | |
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The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The family is large, with some 5,500 known species described in about 90 genera, the largest being the "true sedges" genus Carex with over 2,000 species.
Carex is a vast genus of more than 2,000 species of grass-like plants in the family Cyperaceae, commonly known as sedges. Other members of the family Cyperaceae are also called sedges, however those of genus Carex may be called true sedges, and it is the most species-rich genus in the family. The study of Carex is known as caricology.
Banksia vestita, commonly known as summer dryandra, is a species of shrub that is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It has broadly linear, pinnatifid leaves with sharply pointed teeth on both sides, yellow flowers in heads of between thirty and forty, and broadly egg-shaped follicles.
Grevillea vestita is a shrub which is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia.
Grevillea curviloba is a prostrate to erect shrub that is endemic to Perth, Western Australia.
Carex vesicaria is an essentially Holarctic species of sedge known as bladder sedge, inflated sedge, and blister sedge. It has been used to insulate footwear in Norway and among the Sami people, and for basketry in North America.
Sebastiania vestita is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae. It was described in 1874. It is native to Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Carex viridula, known as little green sedge, green sedge, or greenish sedge, is a small flowering plant native to North America, Europe, Asia, and Morocco.
Salvia vestita is a perennial plant species of the family Lamiaceae. It is native to Peru.
Carex tetanica is a species of sedge and is native to the US and Canada
Carex vacillans is a species of sedge.
Carex virescens is a species of sedge and is native to Canada and the US.
Carex xerantica is a species of sedge.
Carex × beckmannii is a species of sedge and is native to Europe.
Carex × biharica is a species of sedge and is native to Europe.
Carex × danielis is a species of sedge and is native to Belgium, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Slovakia, France, Latvia, and Lithuania.
Carex × evoluta is a species of sedge and is native to Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Russia, Norway, Poland, Romania, and Sweden.
Carex × involuta is a species of sedge and is native to Europe.
Carex × knieskernii is a species of sedge and is native to Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New York, Ontaio, Quebec, Vermont, and Wisconsin.
Anathallis vestita is a species of orchid plant native to Brazil.