Overview
Taxonomy
The Tribe Scirpeae is a member of the Subfamily Cyperoideae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Scirpeae:
- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Plantae
Haeckel, 1866 - Plants
- Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae
Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
- Phylum: Tracheophyta
Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
- Subphylum: Euphyllophytina
- Infraphylum: Radiatopses
Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class: Magnoliopsida
Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
- Subclass: Commelinidae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder: Juncanae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Order: Poales
Small, 1903
- Family: Cyperaceae
(sy-peer-AY-see-ee)
A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- Subfamily: Cyperoideae
- Tribe: Scirpeae
- Subfamily: Cyperoideae
- Family: Cyperaceae
(sy-peer-AY-see-ee)
A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- Order: Poales
Small, 1903
- Superorder: Juncanae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Subclass: Commelinidae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Class: Magnoliopsida
Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
- Infraphylum: Radiatopses
Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Subphylum: Euphyllophytina
- Phylum: Tracheophyta
Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
- Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae
Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
- Kingdom: Plantae
Haeckel, 1866 - Plants
The Tribe Scirpeae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Genus (2): Eriophorum · Scirpus
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 876 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Tribe Scirpeae.
Genera
Eriophorum
Eriophorum (Cottongrass, Cotton-grass or Cottonsedge) is a genus of about 25 species of flowering plants in the family Cyperaceae, the Sedge family. They are found throughout the temperate Northern Hemisphere in acid bog habitats, being particularly abundant in Arctic tundra regions. [more]
Scirpus
The plant genus Scirpus consists of a large number of aquatic, grass-like species in the family Cyperaceae (the sedges), many with the common names club-rush or bulrush (see also bulrush for other plants so-named). Other common names are deergrass or grassweed. [more]
At least 751 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Scirpus.
More info about the Genus Scirpus may be found here.
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