Jean Raynal’s scientific contributions

... Remarkably, this is the first report of non-aerial inflorescences for the genus Carex. The hypogeous utricles (Fig. 4.2A-B) also displayed characters that were in overall agreement with those of the holo-and isotypes of C. hypsipedos (Fig. 4.1B), although larger, something typical of sedges exhibiting amphicarpy (Haines 1971;Raynal 1976;see Discussion). For available measurements of morphological characters, see Table 1. ...

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Fieldwork, Herbarium Revisions, and DNA Barcodes: Basic Ingredients to Shed Light on the Dark Realms of Plant Biodiversity, an Example with Two Enigmatic Andean Carex (Cyperaceae) Species