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Carex sodiroi

Carex sodiroi is a sedge known only from a single historical collection in Ecuador and Venezuela, so little is documented about its cultivation. It is a grass-like perennial in the Cyperaceae family, and details below are general sedge guidance rather than data specific to this species.

Family
Cyperaceae (Cyper family)
Grows as
Grass
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep soil evenly moist during growth, allowing the top layer to dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Moist, humus-rich, well-drained soil.
Temperature
15-25 °C; protect below 5 °C
Native range
N. Venezuela, Ecuador
Climate
subtropical

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Carex sodiroi is a species of sedge native to Ecuador and Venezuela. It known from a single collection made by Luis Sodiro at some time before 1886. It was found around 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) from Nanegalito, and described as a new species by the sedge expert Georg Kükenthal in 1904. The holotype was deposited in the Berlin herbarium, where it may have been destroyed in the Second World War; if there are no isotypes in Ecuador, then the only record of the species may be a photograph in the Field Museum in Chicago.

Other Carex plants

Carex abitibiana · Indian Valley sedge · Abruptbeak sedge · Thicket sedge · Small Dusky Sedge · Seoul Sedge · Acid Loving Sedge · Carex acocksii · Slender Tufted-sedge · Carex acutata · Lesser pond sedge · Circumpolar sedge

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Carex sodiroi by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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