Carex baccans, the crimson-seeded sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cyperaceae, with a widespread distribution in subtropical and tropical Asia; most of the Indian Subcontinent, southern China, most of Malesia (except Borneo), and on to New Guinea.[1][2] An endophytic bacteria species, Glycomyces endophyticus, has been isolated from its roots.[3]

Carex baccans
Seedheads
At the San Francisco Botanical Garden
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Cyperaceae
Genus:	Carex
Species:	C. baccans
Binomial name
Carex baccans Nees
Synonyms[1]
Carex curvirostris Kunze Carex javanica Boeckeler Carex recurvirostra Kunze

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