Directory of Cyperaceae Resources

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The sedges are a family of grass-like or rush-like perennials with unstalked linear leaves, sometimes reduced to a sheath. The flowers, generally grouped into spikelets, are tiny, with petals and sepals reduced to a bristle. Several male and female flowers on the same stalk may form a spike. There are about 120 genera and 5,000 species. Sedges can be told from grasses by their solid, often three-sided, unjointed stems. They typically grow on poor acid soils and have little nutritional or economic value.

Subcategories

• Blysmus
• Bolboschoenus
• Bulbostylis
• Carex
• Cladium
• Cyperus
• Dulichium
• Eleocharis
• Eriophorum
• Fuirena
• Holoschoenus
• Kyllinga
• Lepironia
• Machaerina
• Oreobolus
• Rhynchospora
• Schoenus
• Scirpus
• Scleria
• Uncinia

Resources in This Category

• Description of Cyperaceae

  http://delta-intkey.com/angio/www/cyperace.htm
  Habit and leaf form; Anatomy; Morphology; Physiology; Biochemistry; Geography.

• The Cyperaceae

  http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/cyper.htm
  Description of the sedge family, with photos and descriptions of several specimens from Hawaii.

 

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