Monocots - Database of anatomical images

0235-0238 Carex brizoides

First Collector	NA
Collection Date	1958-07-06
Country	Switzerland
Province	Berne
Latitude	NA
Longitude	NA
Altitude	450
Habitat	Perennial. Moist forest, hill zone.

Anatomical description of culm

Culm-diameter 0.5-1 mm, wall large, radius of culm in relation to wall thickness approximately 1: 0.5. Outline pentagonal or hexagonal. Culm-center hollow and surrounded by a few thin-walled, not lignified cells. Center with net-like aerenchyma (stellate)

Anatomical description of rhyzom

Rhizome diameter 0.5-0.99 mm, Rhizome center full, containing unlignified cells. Endodermis cells thin walled. Cells in the cortex round. Vascular bundles in the cortex present. Vascular bundles in central cylinde dispersed arranged. Vascular bundles conc