Biology:Carex rupestris

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Carex rupestris
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On a mountainside in the Czech Republic
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Cyperaceae
Genus: Carex
Species:
C. rupestris
Binomial name
Carex rupestris
All.[1]
Synonyms[2]

Carex rupestris, called the curly sedge and rock sedge (names it shares with other members of its genus), is a species of flowering plant in the family Cyperaceae, native to temperate and subarctic North America, Greenland, Iceland, Europe, and Asia.[2] It prefers to grow on rocky ledges.[3]

Subtaxa

The following subspecies are currently accepted:[2]

  • Carex rupestris subsp. altimontana T.V.Ebel
  • Carex rupestris subsp. rupestris

References

  1. Fl. Pedem. 2: 264 (1785)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Carex rupestris All.". Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:302034-1. 
  3. Chlebicki, Andrzej (2014). "Biogeographic relationships between fungi and selected glacial relict plants". Monographiae Botanicae 90: 1–230. doi:10.5586/mb.2002.001. 

Wikidata ☰ Q159706 entry