Editing Cyperaceae (section)

{{Short description|Family of flowering plants known as sedges}}
{{Redirect|Sedge|other uses|Sedge (disambiguation)}}
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{{Automatic taxobox
|fossil_range = {{fossil range|56|Recent|[[Eocene]] – Recent}}
|image = Pycreus.jpg
|image_caption = ''[[Cyperus polystachyos]]'' flower head 
|taxon = Cyperaceae
|authority = [[Antoine Laurent de Jussieu|Juss.]]<ref name=APGIII2009>{{Cite journal |last=Angiosperm Phylogeny Group |year=2009 |title=An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=161 |issue=2 |pages=105–121 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x |doi-access=free |hdl=10654/18083 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
|subdivision_ranks = Genera
|subdivision = 94, see text<ref name=powo/>
}}

The '''Cyperaceae''' ({{IPAc-en|ˌ|s|aɪ|p|ə|'|r|eɪ|s|i|.|iː|,_|-|ˌ|aɪ}}) are a family of  [[graminoid]] (grass-like), [[monocotyledon]]ous flowering plants known as [[wikt:sedge|sedges]]. The [[family (biology)|family]] is large; botanists have [[species description|described]] some 5,500 known species in about 90 [[genus|genera]]<ref name="Christenhusz-Byng2016">{{cite journal |last1=Christenhusz|first1=M. J. M. |last2=Byng|first2=J. W. |year= 2016 |title=The number of known plants species in the world and its annual increase |journal=[[Phytotaxa]] |volume=261 |pages=201–217 |url=http://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/download/phytotaxa.261.3.1/20598 |doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.261.3.1 |issue=3 |publisher=[[Magnolia Editions|Magnolia Press]] |doi-access=free |bibcode=2016Phytx.261..201C |access-date=14 July 2016 |archive-date=29 July 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160729085754/http://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/download/phytotaxa.261.3.1/20598 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author1=R. Govaerts |author2=D. A. Simpson |author3=with J. Bruhl |author4=T. Egorova |author5=P. Goetghebeur |author6=K. Wilson |year=2007 |title=Word Checklist of Cyperaceae: Sedges |publisher=[[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew]] |isbn=978-1-84246-199-0}}</ref>{{snd}}the largest being the "true [[wikt:sedge|sedges]]" (genus ''[[Carex]]''),<ref>{{cite web |title=sedge family |publisher=[[Merriam-Webster]] |url=https://merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sedge%20family |access-date=25 December 2013 |archive-date=26 December 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131226054432/http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sedge%20family |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="MilneMilne1975">{{cite book |last1=Milne|first1=Lorus Johnson |last2=Milne|first2=Margery Joan Greene |title=Living plants of the world |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IKXuAAAAMAAJ |year=1975 |publisher=[[Random House]] |page=301}}</ref> with over 2,000 species.<ref name="Hipp2007">{{cite journal |last1=Hipp|first1=Andrew L. |title=Nonuniform processes of chromosome evolution in sedges (Carex: Cyperaceae) |journal=[[Evolution (journal)|Evolution]] |volume=61 |issue=9 |year=2007 |pages=2175–2194 |issn=0014-3820 |doi=10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00183.x |pmid=17767589 |s2cid=19514206 |doi-access=free}}</ref>