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  • In humid or wet places of these forests especially rich raised bog-communities grow dominated by Sphagnum, Juncaceae, Cyperaceae and grasses.

    Magellanic subpolar forests 2008

  • Tall herbfields grow on well-developed humus soils, dominated by species of Compositae, Cyperaceae, Gramineae, Juncaceae, Ranunculaceae, and Umbelliferae.

    Australian Alps montane grasslands 2008

  • In areas with wet soils and near streams Cyperaceae and Juncaceae dominate, with some genera forming dense and hard wind-pollinated cushions such as Oxychloe and Patosia together with beautiful large-flowered forbs such as Mimulus, Euphrasia and Senecio species.

    Southern Andean steppe 2007

  • In humid or wet sites especially rich bog-communities called vegas, growth is dominated by Juncaceae, Cyperaceae and grasses.

    Southern Andean steppe 2007

  • Date: before 12th century any of various monocotyledonous often tufted marsh plants (as of the genera Juncus and Scirpus of the family Juncaceae, the rush family) with cylindrical often hollow stems which are used in bottoming chairs and plaiting mats

    The Annotated "Sugar Magnolia" Robert Hunter and Robert Weir 1970

  • Juncaceae and the palms (series Calycinae) where the perianth loses its petaloid character and thence to the Aroids, screw-pines and others where it is more or less aborted (series Nudiflorae).

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various

  • I fancy, from a paper by Don, that some genera of grasses (i.e. Juncus or Juncaceae) are widely diffused over the world, and certainly many of their species have very wide ranges -- in short, it seems that my question is whether there is any relation between the ranges of genera and of individual species, without any relation to the size of the genera.

    More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845

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