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Carex diminuta

species of plant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 14, 2022
Entity authorityQ15569113 ↗
Source-derived summary

Carex diminuta is a tussock-forming species of perennial sedge in the family Cyperaceae. It is native to parts of China.

The species was first formally described by the botanist Johann Otto Boeckeler in 1890 as a part of the work Beitráge zur Kenntniss der Cyperaceen.

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The public source identifies “Carex diminuta” as species of plant. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Carex, diminuta and species.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1890—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Carex, diminuta and species providing the first useful test.
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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 14, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q15569113. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1890.

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This entry incorporates text from “Carex diminuta” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.