Monocots - Database of anatomical images

0280-0284 Carex dioeca

First Collector	NA
Collection Date	2011-08-01
Country	Switzerland
Province	Grisons
Latitude	NA
Longitude	NA
Altitude	2030
Habitat	Perennial. fen, 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 oval. Culm-center hollow and surrounded by a few thin-walled, not lignified cells. Center with net-like aerenchyma (stellate). Epidermis cells

Anatomical description of rhyzom

Rhizome diameter 1-1.99 mm, Rhizome center full, containing unlignified cells. Without cortex/central cylinder separation. Endodermis absent. Endodermis as a sclerenchymatic belt. Cells in the cortex round. Vascular bundles in the cortex present. Vascula