Poaceae, which shares some characteristics of cyperaceae, such as wind pollination and reduced floral structure, has often been placed near to cyperaceae but is now shown to be more distantly related h. Special features of the inflorescence structure in the family cyperaceae. The cyperaceae, among the 10 largest families of flowering plants, contain about 5,000 species and, depending on the classification used, between 70 and 115 genera. Both sedges family cyperaceae, approximately 4000 species and rushes family juncaceae. Both exhibited good antifeedant properties against s. Cyperaceae morphology and salient taxonomic characters, rec.
Tropical c4 grasses and sedges have been found to be more efficient than their c3. Cyperaceae article about cyperaceae by the free dictionary. The cyperaceae are grasslike herbaceous plants found especially in wet regions throughout the world. The family cyperaceae closely resembles poaceae gramineae, hence most of the taxonomists have included it with poaceae gramineae under glumiflorae. The plants database includes the following 2 subspecies of eleocharis palustris. Features distinguishing members of the sedge family from grasses or rushes are. To distinguish them, look for the following characteristics.
Cyperaceae, sedge family of monocotyledonous flowering plants, a division of the order poales. Classification for kingdom plantae down to family cyperaceae. Click below on a thumbnail map or name for subspecies profiles. The cyperaceae are a family of graminoid grasslike, monocotyledonous flowering plants. Pdf anatomical features of species of cyperaceae from. Smoothfruited sedge carex laeviconica cyperaceaesedge. Nonuniform processes of chromosome evolution in sedges carex. Graminoids families poaceae, juncaceae and cyperaceae. Identification of all but the most distinctive species usually requires mature fruit. Pdf an account is given of pseudovivipary vegetative apomixis in. There are three families that you will need to be able to distinguish in order to indentify graminoids. Plants profile for eleocharis palustris common spikerush. The plant list includes 18,977 scientific plant names of species rank for the family cyperaceae. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext.
Graminoids families poaceae, juncaceae and cyperaceae one of the most challenging things you will do at dwp is keyout graminoids grass and grasslike plants. About the classification report about the classification download. Pdf hypolytrum goetghebeurii cyperaceae, a curious new. Pdf seventythree species from 17 genera of cyperaceae were. The family cyperaceae sedges includes shortlived and. Cyperaceae sedges are a monocotyledenous angiosperm plant family with over 5300 species. Considering the ubiquity and the diversity of the cyperaceae, the family has received surprisingly little attention from phylogeneticists.
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