Results suggest that tiger nut probably originated in the late Cenozoic in Africa and reached the Americas repeatedly, independently of Columbian exchanges.
Tag - Cyperaceae
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Silica nanoparticles and structural leaf coloration
Blue iridescence is produced by both the helicoidal wall and silica nanoparticles in the helicoid.
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Species coherence in a cytogenetically diverse sedge
Escudero et al. provide the first comprehensive study of population-level patterns of molecular and cytogenetic differentiation in the sedge genus Carex.
Floral ontogeny and gene protein localization in mapaniid sedges
Poorly known, mapaniid sedges (Cyperaceae, subfamily Mapanioideae) possess unique floral forms, markedly different from stereotypical monocots, and the evolutionary issues of how or why this has occurred have not been...
The ecological importance of sedges (Invited Review)
Sword and rapier sedges (Lepidosperma, Cyperaceae) are common in the southern Australian and New Zealand floras, also occurring in New Caledonia and South-east Asia. Sedge ecology is seldom studied and Barrett provides...
