Flora
of Siberia
Volume 3: Cyperaceae
L.I. Malyschev (Editor-in-Chief)
ISBN 978-1-57808-102-8; 2001; 280 Pages; US $ 99.95
The family
cyperaceae is extensively distributed throughout the world. It includes some
90 genera and 4000 species. In terms of abundance, this family occupies the
eleventh place in the flora of the erstwhile USSR as a whole and third place
in Siberia where 13 genera and 232 species and subspecies have been
reported. The most profuse among these is genus
Carex L. (sedge)
comprising 173 species and subspecies that can be grouped into 39 sections
under 4 subgenera.
Scientists at the taxonomy laboratory of higher
plants and florogenetics, Siberian Central Botanical Garden, Siberian
Division of USSR Academy of Sciences, carried out the scientific treatment
of material presented in this volume.
Contents:.
Key to genera
. Juncellus [Griseb.] Clarke
. Cyperus L.
.
Eriophorum L.
. Baeothryon A. Dietr.
. Scirpoides Seguier
. Scirpus L.
. Bolboschoenus [Ascherson] Palla
.
Blysmus Panzer ex Schultes
. Dichostylis Beauv. ex Lest.
.
Eleocharis R. Br., syn.:
Heleocharis auct
. Rhynchospora
Vahl
. Kobresia Willd., syn.:Cobresia auct.
.Carex L
.
Addendum Genus Pycreus Beauv.
. Index of Latin Names of Plants
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