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  1. Plants
  2. ›Vascular Plants
  3. ›flowering plants
  4. ›monocots
  5. ›grasses, sedges, cattails, and allies
  6. ›Sedges
  7. ›Cyperoideae
  8. ›Cariceae
  9. ›Carex
  10. ›Carex
  11. ›Spirostachyae
Carex raoulii
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Carex raoulii

The genus Carex, the sedges, is one of the largest genera of flowering plants, containing over 2000 species, according to the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. In May 2015, the Global Carex Group argued for a broader circumscription of Carex, which added all the species formerly classified in Cymophyllus (1 species), Kobresia (c. 60 species), Schoenoxiphium (c. 15 species) and Uncinia (c. 70 species). As of May 2024, all the currently recognised species (including hybrid species) in the genus Carex are given below:

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 400459.