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BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)
CYPERACEAE
(cotton-grasses, spike-rushes and sedges)
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BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

CYPERACEAE (cotton-grasses, spike-rushes and sedges)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #photos #macrophotos #refs #webs
Species Blysmus compressus (L.) Panzer ex Link (Flat-sedge)   2      
Species Bolboschoenus maritimus (L.) Palla (Sea Club-rush)   2 6   15
Genus Carex (sedges) 54 90 192 6 590
Species Cladium mariscus (L.) Pohl (Great Fen-sedge)   12     49
Genus Eleocharis (spike-rushes) 6 11 30   30
Species Eleogiton fluitans (L.) Link (Floating Club-rush)     4    
Genus Eriophorum (cottongrasses) 4 15 1 1 33
Species Isolepis cernua (Vahl) Roemer & Schultes (Slender Club-rush)   9 1    
Species Isolepis setacea (L.) R.Br. (Bristle Club-rush)   2 16    
Species Kobresia simpliciuscula (Wahlenb.) Mackenzie (False Sedge)       1  
Genus Rhynchospora (a beak-sedges) 1 9     3
Genus Schoenoplectus (club-rushes) 3     1 38
Species Schoenus nigricans L. (Black Bog-rush)   10     2
Species Scirpus sylvaticus L. (Wood Club-rush)   6 6   7
Genus Trichophorum (deergrasses) 2 8 5   18
Informal (Scirpus s.l.) 12 27 42 1 76

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Fitter, R., Fitter, A. & Farrer, A., 1984 Grasses, Sedges, Rushes & Ferns of Britain and Northern Europe
Jermy A.C., Chater, A.O. & David, R.W., 1982 (Key includes Carex and similar spp) Sedges of the British Isles
Lansdown R.V. & Pankhurst T.J. Privately published
Rose, F., 1989 Colour Identification Guide to Grasses, Sedges, Rushes and Ferns of the British Isles and north-western Europe

CYPERACEAE may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)		 Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)		 PLANTAE
(plants)		 SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)		 MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)		 LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with CYPERACEAE:

Photos debris (dead, decayed) dead, decayed debris is decayed by fruitbody Resinomycena saccharifera - a toadstool (Agaricales: Tricholomataceae) Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
leaf leaf is grazed by larva Dolerus asper - a sawfly (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) Benson, R.B., 1952
leaf leaf is grazed by larva Dolerus megapterus - a sawfly (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) Benson, R.B., 1952
leaf leaf is grazed by larva Dolerus nitens - a sawfly (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) Questionable Benson, R.B., 1952
leaf leaf is grazed by larva Dolerus possilensis - a sawfly (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) Questionable Benson, R.B., 1952
leaf leaf is grazed by nocturnal larva Macrophya duodecimpunctata - a sawfly (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) Benson, R.B., 1952
Photos leaf leaf is grazed by larva Selandria serva - a sawfly (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) Benson, R.B., 1952
leaf leaf is grazed by larva Selandria sixii - a sawfly (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) Benson, R.B., 1952
leaf leaf is grazed by nocturnal larva Tenthredopsis nassata - a sawfly (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) Benson, R.B., 1952

Cyperaceae may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)		 LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)

References

Benson, R.B., 1952 Hymenoptera: 2. Symphyta. Section (b)
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota

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