TY - BOOK AU - Govaerts,Rafaël AU - Simpson,David a. AU - Bruhl,Jeremy AU - Egorova,Tatiana AU - Goetghebeur,Paul AU - Wilson,Karen TI - World checklist of Cyperaceae. Sedges / R. Govaerts [et al.] SN - 978-1-84246-199-0 PY - 2007/// CY - Richmond PB - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew KW - Cyperaceae KW - Taxonomía N1 - Contents: Introduction; How to use the checklist: structure, names, acceptance of taxa, new names and combinations, geographical distribution, life-forms; Abbreviations, Acknowledgements, Co-authors,; References; Cyperaceae; Unplaced names N2 - The sedge family, Cyperaceae, is the third largest family of monocotyledonous plants. They are of significant economic importance, especially among rural communities in the tropics, where sedges are intensively used. The World Checklist of Cyperaceae is a unique resource that lists all validly published names of sedges, providing the source of their publication and indication of which names are currently accepted and which are synonyms. It will be a standard nomenclatural reference for further research into this important family ER -