Monocots - Database of anatomical images

0412-0415 Carex melanostachya

First Collector	NA
Collection Date	2013-05-31
Country	Czech Republic
Province	Boehemia
Latitude	NA
Longitude	NA
Altitude	430
Habitat	Perennial, pond, hill 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 5-10 mm, Rhizome center full, containing unlignified cells. Endodermis absent.With cortex/central cylinder separation. Endodermis present. Endodermis cells thick walled all around. Cells in the cortex netlike arranged. Vascular bundles in