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Carex baccans

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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]

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Carex baccans
Seedheads
At the San Francisco Botanical Garden
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Embryophytes
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
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