Monocots - Database of anatomical images

0382-0385 Carex lachenallii

First Collector	NA
Collection Date	1968-08-08
Country	Switzerland
Province	Berne
Latitude	NA
Longitude	NA
Altitude	2400
Habitat	Perennial. meadow, hill zone.

Anatomical description of culm

Culm-diameter 1-2 mm, wall large, radius of culm in relation to wall thickness approximately 1: 0.5. Otline triangular, acutely. Culm-center hollow and surrounded by many large 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. Without cortex/central cylinder separation. Endodermis absent. Cells in the cortex round. Vascular bundles in central cylinde dispersed arranged. Vascular bundles concentric,