query: parent_taxon kobresia
supports: The Tibetan Plateau, also known in China as the QinghaiTibet Plateau or the Qingzang Plateau or Himalayan Plateau, is a vast elevated plateau in Central Asia and East Asia, covering most of the Tibet Autonomous Region and Qinghai Province in western China, as well as part of Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir state of India. It stretches approximately north to south and east to west. With an average elevation exceeding , the Tibetan Plateau is sometimes called "the Roof of the World" and is the world's highest and largest plateau, with an area of (about five times the size of Metropolitan France). Sometimes termed the Third Pole, the Tibetan Plateau contains the headwaters of the drainage basins of most of the streams in surrounding regions. Its tens of thousands of glaciers and other geographical and ecological features serve as a "water tower" storing water and maintaining flow. The impact of global warming on the Tibetan Plateau is of intense scientific interest. 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To the east and southeast, Europe is generally considered as separated from Asia by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways of the Turkish Straits. Yet the non-oceanic borders of Europea concept dating back to classical antiquityare arbitrary. The primarily physiographic term "continent" as applied to Europe also incorporates cultural and political elements whose discontinuities are not always reflected by the continent's current overland boundaries. The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about . It covers approximately 20 percent of the Earth's surface and about 29 percent of its water surface area. It separates the "Old World" from the "New World". 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Asia is notable for not only its overall large size and population, but also dense and large settlements as well as vast barely populated regions within the continent of 4.4 billion people. India, officially the Republic of India ("Bhrat Gaarjya"), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country (with over 1.2 billion people), and the most populous democracy in the world. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast. It shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the northeast; and Myanmar (Burma) and Bangladesh to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives. India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia. Its capital is New Delhi; other metropolises include Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad. A mountain range (also mountain barrier, belt, or system) is a geographic area containing numerous geologically related mountains. A mountain system or system of mountain ranges, sometimes is used to combine several geological features that are geographically (regionally) related. On Earth, most significant mountain ranges are the result of plate tectonics, though mountain ranges are formed by a range of processes, are found on many planetary mass objects in the Solar System and are likely a feature of most terrestrial planets. A continent is one of several very large landmasses on Earth. Generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria, up to seven regions are commonly regarded as continents. Ordered from largest in size to smallest, they are: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. In geology, areas of continental crust include regions covered with water. The Black Sea is a body of water between Eastern Europe and Western Asia, bounded by Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine. It is supplied by a number of major rivers, such as the Danube, Dnieper, Rioni, Southern Bug, and Dniester. The Black Sea has an area of (not including the Sea of Azov), a maximum depth of , and a volume of . It is constrained by the Pontic Mountains to the south and by the Caucasus Mountains to the east, and features a wide shelf to the northwest. The longest east-west extent is about . Tibet (Tibetan Pinyin: "boe", ; /i ts¹/) is a region on the Tibetan Plateau in Asia. It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people as well as some other ethnic groups such as Monpa, Qiang, and Lhoba peoples and is now also inhabited by considerable numbers of Han Chinese and Hui people. Tibet is the highest region on Earth, with an average elevation of . The highest elevation in Tibet is Mount Everest, Earth's highest mountain, rising 8,848 m (29,029 ft) above sea level. Kobresia is a genus of plants in the sedge family . They are sometimes called bog sedges . These perennial sedges are quite similar to Carex species in appearance . The genus is widespread across much of Europe , Asia and North America , with many species native to the Himalayas . Kobresia burangensis Y.C.Yang -- Tibet Kobresia capillifolia ( Decne . ) C.B.Clarke -- Central Asia , Himalayas , Tuva region of Siberia , Mongolia , central and western China including Tibet and Xinjiang Kobresia cercostachys ( Franch . ) C.B.Clarke -- Eastern Himalayas , Nepal , Bhutan , Tibet , Yunnan Kobresia condensata ( Kük . ) S.R.Zhang & Noltie -- Sichuan , Yunnan Kobresia cuneata Kük -- Tibet to central China Kobresia curticeps ( C.B.Clarke ) Kük . in H.G.A.Engler -- Tibet , Nepal , Bhutan Kobresia curvirostris ( C.B.Clarke ) C.B.Clarke in J.D.Hooker -- Bhutan , Arunachal Pradesh , Thailand Kobresia duthiei C.B.Clarke in J.D.Hooker -- Tibet , Nepal , Bhutan , northern and eastern India Kobresia esbirajbhandarii Rajbh . & H.Ohba -- Nepal Kobresia esenbeckii ( Kunth ) Noltie -- Tibet , Yunnan , Nepal , Bhutan , northern and eastern India , Myanmar Kobresia falcata F.T.Wang & Tang ex P.C.Li -- Sichuan , Gansu Kobresia filicina ( C.B.Clarke ) C.B.Clarke in J.D.Hooker -- Tibet , Nepal , Bhutan , northern and eastern India Kobresia filifolia ( Turcz . ) C.B.Clarke -- Siberia , Mongolia , Gansu , Hebei , Inner Mongolia , Qinghai , Shanxi Kobresia fissiglumis C.B.Clarke in J.D.Hooker -- Tibet , Yunnan , Nepal , Bhutan , northern and eastern India Kobresia fragilis C.B.Clarke -- Nepal , Bhutan , Tibet , Qinghai , Sichuan , Yunnan , Sikkim Kobresia gammiei C.B.Clarke -- Nepal , Bhutan , Tibet Kobresia gandakiensis Rajbh . & H.Ohba -- Nepal , Sikkim Kobresia graminifolia C.B.Clarke -- Nepal , Gansu , Qinghai , Shaanxi , Sichuan , Tibet , Yunnan Kobresia harae Rajbh . & H.Ohba -- Nepal Kobresia hohxilensis R.F.Huang in S.G.Wu & Z.J.Feng -- Gansu , Qinghai , Tibet Kobresia humilis ( C.A.Mey . ex Trautv . ) Serg . in V.L.Komarov -- Caucasus , Turkey , Iraq , Iran , Afghanistan , Central Asia , Himalayas , Nepal , Pakistan , Tibet , Xinjiang , Mongolia Kobresia inflata P.C.Li in S.Y.Jin & Y.L.Chen -- Bhutan , Tibet , Yunnan Kobresia kanaii Rajbh . & H.Ohba -- Nepal Kobresia kansuensis Kük -- Nepal , Bhutan , Tibet , Gansu , Qinghai , Shaanxi , Sichuan , Yunnan Kobresia karakorumensis Dickoré -- Tajikistan , Afghanistan , Pakistan , Kashmir , Tibet , Xinjiang Kobresia kobresioidea ( Kük . ) J.Kern -- Sumatra Kobresia kuekenthaliana Hand . - Mazz . -- Sichuan Kobresia laxa Nees in R.Wight -- Tajikistan , Afghanistan , Pakistan , Kashmir , Tibet , Bhutan Kobresia littledalei C.B.Clarke -- Sichuan , Tibet Kobresia loliacea F.T.Wang & Tang ex P.C.Li -- Tibet , Yunnan Kobresia macrantha Boeckeler -- Gansu , Qinghai , Sichuan , Xinjiang , Nepal , Tibet Kobresia macrolepis Meinsh . -- Caucasus Kobresia mallae Rajbh . & H.Ohba -- Nepal Kobresia myosuroides ( Vill . ) Fiori in A.Fiori & al . -- northern and central Europe and Asia from Spain and Iceland to Korea and the Kuril Islands , including Siberia , China , Scandinavia , Germany , Italy , etc. ; also Greenland , Alaska , much of Canada and the mountains of the Western United States Kobresia nepalensis ( Nees ) Kük . in H.G.A.Engler -- Himalayas from Pakistan to Bhutan ; Tibet , Yunnan Kobresia nitens C.B.Clarke -- Pakistan , Nepal , northern India Kobresia prainii Kük -- Nepal , Tibet , Bhutan Kobresia pusilla N.A.Ivanova -- Gansu , Hebei , Inner Mongolia , Qinghai , Sichuan , Tibet Kobresia pygmaea ( C.B.Clarke ) C.B.Clarke in J.D.Hooker -- much of China ; Himalayas from Pakistan to Myanmar Kobresia rcsrivastavae Jana -- Uttarakhand Kobresia robusta Maxim . -- Mongolia , Gansu , Qinghai , Xinjiang , Tibet Kobresia royleana ( Nees ) Boeckeler -- Central Asia , Himalayas , Nepal , Bhutan , Gansu , Qinghai , Sichuan , Xinjiang , Tibet , Yunnan Afghanistan , Himachal Pradesh , Uttarakhand Kobresia sanguinea ( Boott ) Raymond -- Pakistan , Kashmir Kobresia schoenoides ( C.A.Mey . ) Steud -- Caucasus , Iran , Central Asia , Himalayas , China Kobresia setschwanensis Hand . - Mazz . -- Gansu , Qinghai , Sichuan , Tibet , Yunnan Kobresia sibirica ( Turcz . ) Boeckeler -- Arctic Russia , Mongolia , Alaska , Arctic Canada , British Columbia , Colorado , Wyoming Kobresia sikkimensis Kük . in H.G.A.Engler -- Sikkim , Tibet , Nepal , Bhutan , Assam Kobresia simpliciuscula ( Wahlenb . ) Mack . -- northern and central Europe from Britain and Spain to Kamchatka ; Alaska , Greenland , much of Canada , mountains of western United States Kobresia smirnovii N.A.Ivanova -- Altai , Kazakhstan , Mongolia Kobresia squamiformis Y.C.Yang -- Sikkim , Tibet , Gansu Kobresia tibetica Maxim . -- Tibet , Xinjiang , Gansu , Qinghai , Sichuan Kobresia tunicata Hand . - Mazz . -- Sichuan , Yunnan Kobresia uncinioides ( Boott ) C.B.Clarke in J.D.Hooker -- Nepal , Bhutan , Myanmar , Tibet , Yunnan Kobresia vaginosa C.B.Clarke in J.D.Hooker -- Nepal , Bhutan , Tibet , Yunnan Kobresia vidua ( Boott ex C.B.Clarke ) Kük . in H.G.A.Engler -- Nepal , Bhutan , Tibet , Yunnan , Gansu , Qinghai , Sichuan Kobresia woodii Noltie -- Bhutan , Tibet Kobresia yadongensis Y.C.Yang -- Tibet Kobresia yangii S.R.Zhang -- Sichuan Carex is a vast genus of almost 2,000 species of grassy plants in the family Cyperaceae, commonly known as sedges. Other members of the Cyperaceae family are also called sedges, however those of genus "Carex" may be called "true" sedges, and it is the most species-rich genus in the family. The study of "Carex" is known as caricology.
candidates: area areas bulgaria carex cyperaceae han human
answer: cyperaceae