Monocots - Database of anatomical images

0408-0411 Carex maritima Gunnerus

First Collector	NA
Collection Date	2012-07-09
Country	Iceland
Province	Nidwalden-Island
Latitude	NA
Longitude	NA
Altitude	100
Habitat	Perennial. Meadow, arctic zone.

Anatomical description of culm

Culm-diameter 1-2 mm, wall very large, radius of culm in relation to wall thickness approximately 1: 0.75. Otline triangular, obtusely. Culm-center hollow and surrounded by many large thin-walled, not lignified cells. Center with net-like aerenchyma (stel

Anatomical description of rhyzom

Rhizome diameter 0.5-0.99 mm, Rhizome center full, containing unlignified cells. Endodermis absent.With cortex/central cylinder separation. Endodermis present. Endodermis cells u-shaped, thick walled. Vascular bundles in central cylinde dispersed arranged