Vesicariae

Translingual

Carex vesicaria (blister sedge)

Etymology

Nominative feminine plural of Latin vēsīcārius (“bladder”). Linnaeus (Species Plantarum 2:979) named one of the species in this section Carex vesicariu, latter corrected to vesicaria.

Proper noun

Vesicariae

1. A taxonomic section within the family Cyperaceae – Carex sect. Vesicariae.

Hypernyms

• (section in Carex): Poales - order; Cyperaceae - family; Cyperoideae - subfamily; Cariceae - tribe; Carex - genus

Hyponyms

• (section): Carex baileyi (Bailey's sedge), Carex bullata (button sedge), Carex comosa (longhair sedge), Carex elliottii (Elliott's sedge), Carex exsiccata (western inflated sedge), Carex hystericina (bottlebrush sedge), Carex lurida (shallow sedge), Carex membranacea (fragile sedge), Carex oligosperma (fewseed sedge), Carex pseudocyperus (cypress-like sedge), Carex retrorsa (knotsheath sedge), Carex rostrata (beaked sedge), Carex rotundata (round sedge), Carex saxatilis (rock sedge), Carex schweinitzii (Schweinitz's sedge), Carex thurberi (Thurber's sedge), Carex tuckermanii (Tuckerman's sedge), Carex utriculata (Northwest Territory sedge), Carex vesicaria (blister sedge) - species

Related terms

• Vesicaria

References

• Carex on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Carex on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Carex on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Vesicariae at Flora of North America