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Carex baccans

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Carex baccans
Seedheads
At the San Francisco Botanical Garden
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Cyperaceae
Genus: Carex
Species:
C. baccans
Binomial name
Carex baccans
Synonyms[1]
  • Carex curvirostris Kunze
  • Carex javanica Boeckeler
  • Carex recurvirostra Kunze

Carex baccans, the crimson-seeded sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cyperaceae, with a widespread distribution in subtropical and tropical Asia; most of the Indian Subcontinent, southern China, most of Malesia (except Borneo), and on to New Guinea.[1][2] An endophytic bacteria species, Glycomyces endophyticus, has been isolated from its roots.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Carex baccans Nees". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
  2. ^ "Carex baccans (CRXBA)". EPPO Global Database. European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization. 2022. Retrieved 11 March 2022. Authority: Wright
  3. ^ Qin, S.; Wang, H.-B.; Chen, H.-H.; Zhang, Y.-Q.; Jiang, C.-L.; Xu, L.-H.; Li, W.-J. (2008). "Glycomyces endophyticus sp. nov., an endophytic actinomycete isolated from the root of Carex baccans Nees". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 58 (11): 2525–2528. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.2008/000398-0. PMID 18984687.