Biology:Carex myosuroides

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Carex myosuroides
Kobresia myosuroides - Botanical Garden in Kaisaniemi, Helsinki - DSC03525.JPG
At the University of Helsinki Botanical Garden, Kaisaniemi
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Botanical illustration
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Cyperaceae
Genus: Carex
Species:
C. myosuroides
Binomial name
Carex myosuroides
Vill.
Synonyms[1]

Carex myosuroides (syn. Kobresia myosuroides), the mouse-tail bog sedge, is a species of sedge (family Cyperaceae) with a circumboreal distribution.[1] It is the only known sedge to have ectomycorrhizal associations.[2]

It is a known host to a number of fungi, including Anthracoidea elynae, Arthrinium puccinioides, Cladosporium herbarum, Clathrospora elynae, Lophodermium caricinum, Phaeosphaeria herpotrichoides, Schizonella melanogramma, Septoria punctoidea and possibly to Micropeziza cornea.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Carex myosuroides Vill.". Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:301123-1. 
  2. Lipson, David A.; Schadt, Christopher W.; Schmidt, Steven K.; Monson, Russell K. (1999). "Ectomycorrhizal transfer of amino acid-nitrogen to the alpine sedge Kobresia myosuroides". New Phytologist 142: 163–167. doi:10.1046/j.1469-8137.1999.00375.x. 
  3. Helgi Hallgrímsson & Guðríður Gyða Eyjólfsdóttir (2004). Íslenskt sveppatal I - smásveppir [Checklist of Icelandic Fungi I - Microfungi. Fjölrit Náttúrufræðistofnunar. Náttúrufræðistofnun Íslands [Icelandic Institute of Natural History]. ISSN 1027-832X

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