They are polyphagous, feeding on the sap of various species of herbaceous plants, mainly Juncus ( Juncaceae sp . ), Carex ( Cyperaceae sp . ), Holcus ( Poaceae sp . ) and Fabaceae species.
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Flora of flooded gums ( " Eucalyptus rudis " ), bracken fern ( " Pteridium esculentum " ) and rushes ( from the plant families Cyperaceae, Juncaceae and Restionaceae ) occur around the springs.
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During the 1960s and 1970s, he published some 80 papers on parasitic fungi of a number of plant families : Saxifragaceae, Portulacaceae, Onagraceae, Apiaceae, Scrophulariaceae, Asteraceae, Liliaceae, Cyperaceae, Juncaceae and Poaceae.
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Beetles ( Coleoptera ) account for the highest proportion of the birds'diet, followed by spiders ( Araneae ) and snails ( Gastropods ), whereas plant matter is dominated by sedges ( Cyperaceae ) and rushes ( Juncaceae ).
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The species are mostly herbaceous perennial plants, though some are annual plants; they resemble plants in the related families Cyperaceae ( sedges ) and Juncaceae ( rushes ), and like them, have rather small, wind-pollinated flowers.
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Research based on DNA has confirmed the status of the monocots as a order include the Cyperaceae ( sedges ) and Juncaceae ( rushes ), and the monocots also include familiar families such as the palms ( Arecaceae, Arecales ) and lilies ( Liliaceae, Liliales ).
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The species are mostly herbaceous perennial plants, though some are annual plants; they resemble plants in the related families Cyperaceae ( sedges ) and Juncaceae ( rushes ), and like them, have rather small, wind-pollinated flowers grouped together in capitulum-like inflorescences.
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Fen meadow is a classic Boho habitat type, consisting of wet fields locally described as a bog meadow, typified by the species devil's-bit scabious, bog thistle, sedges and occasionally tormentil, purple moor grass and rushes ( " Juncaceae " ).
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Sedges ( family Cyperaceae ) and rushes ( family Juncaceae ) are often thought of as grasses, and you will find them lumped together at nurseries, which increasingly carry them . ( Just remember, to tell the difference, sedges have edges, rushes are round, and grasses are hollow with knees to the ground .)
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"' Axayacatl "'or " xaxayacatl " are the two common names of pre-Hispanic origin used in Mexico to refer to species of aquatic insects in the family Corixidae, the eggs of which, deposited abundantly on rushes ( grass-like plants in the Juncaceae family ) and flags ( species of Iris plant ) in lakes and ponds, are collected and sold as a sort of caviar.
