''Carex baccans'', the crimson-seeded sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the family

Cyperaceae The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The family is large, with some 5,500 known species described in about 90 genera, the largest being the "true sedges" genus ''Carex'' w ...

, with a widespread distribution in subtropical and tropical Asia; most of the Indian Subcontinent, southern China, most of

Malesia Malesia is a biogeographical region straddling the Equator and the boundaries of the Indomalayan and Australasian realms, and also a phytogeographical floristic region in the Paleotropical Kingdom. It has been given different definitions. The ...

(except Borneo), and on to New Guinea. An

endophytic An endophyte is an endosymbiont, often a bacterium or fungus, that lives within a plant for at least part of its life cycle without causing apparent disease. Endophytes are ubiquitous and have been found in all species of plants studied to date; h ...

bacteria species, '' Glycomyces endophyticus'', has been isolated from its roots.

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baccans Flora of tropical Asia Flora of South-Central China Flora of Southeast China Flora of Hainan Flora of Taiwan Plants described in 1834 {{Carex-stub