Carex Linnaeus 1753 (sedge)

Angiospermae - Poales - Cyperaceae

Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1753. Species Plantarum 1-1200

Parent taxon: Cyperaceae according to Y. J. Huang et al. 2021

See also Berry 1914, Chauhan 1991, Knowlton 1919 and Ozaki 1974

Sister taxa: Caricoideae, Cladiocarya, Cladium, Cyperaceoxylon, Cyperacites, Cyperocarpus, Cyperus, Eleocharis, Gahnia, Liaoxia, Machaerina, Polycarpella, Schoenoplectus, Scirpitis, Scirpoideae, Scirpus, Scirpusoxylon, Scleriocarya, Volkeria

Subtaxa: Carex aquatilis Carex berthoudi Carex burrardiana Carex clarkii Carex magellanica Carex servata Carex utriculata Carex vancouverensis

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Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Greenland (1 collection), India (2), Japan (1), the United Kingdom (14), United States (2: Florida, Washington)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)

• Pliocene of China (1), Germany (10), Italy (1), the Russian Federation (1)

• Hemphillian of United States (1: Indiana)

• Miocene to Pliocene of France (1), Germany (1), Japan (2)

• Miocene of Germany (46), Japan (7), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (16), Switzerland (5), United States (2: Alaska, Nebraska)

• Oligocene of the Russian Federation (6)

• Tertiary of Japan (2), the Russian Federation (1)

• Cretaceous of United States (1: South Carolina)

Total: 126 collections including 283 occurrences

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