Monocots - Database of anatomical images

0390-0393 Carex lepidocarpa Tausch

First Collector	Tausch
Collection Date	2011-06-15
Country	Switzerland
Province	Zurich
Latitude	NA
Longitude	NA
Altitude	430
Habitat	Perennial, pond, 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 2-4.99 mm, Rhizome center full, containing unlignified cells. Endodermis absent.With cortex/central cylinder separation. Endodermis present. Endodermis cells thin walled. Cells in the cortex round. Vascular bundles in the cortex present.