Carex sect. Radicales ( Kükenthal 1909: 480 ) Nelmes (1951: 389)

Jin, Xiao-Feng, Cen, Jia-Meng, Hahn, Marlene, Lu, Yi-Fei & He, Jin-Jing, 2015, Notes on Carex (Cyperaceae) from China (II): a taxonomic revision of sect. Radicales (Kük.) Nelmes, Phytotaxa 217 (2), pp. 117-132 : 119-120

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Carex sect. Radicales ( Kükenthal 1909: 480 ) Nelmes (1951: 389)
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1. Carex sect. Radicales ( Kükenthal 1909: 480) Nelmes (1951: 389) . Type:— Carex radicalis Boott.

Involucral bracts leaf-like, longer than inflorescence, long sheathed, rarely scale-like. Spikes androgynous, 1 to several, usually remote. Staminate and pistillate scales obtuse or acute, rarely awned at apex. Perigynia compressed trigonous, pubescent, hispidulous, or glabrous, usually ciliate on margins, many veined, abruptly contracted into a short beak at apex. Style base usually thickened, sparsely pubescent or densely brown granular-punctate; stigmas 3.

There are about 15 species, mainly distributed in Pan-Himalaya region. Twelve species with two varieties exist in

China ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 ).

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Poales

Family

Cyperaceae

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