Carex_curvula

<i>Carex curvula</i>

Carex curvula

Species of flowering plant

Carex curvula, the Alpine sedge (a name it shares with other members of its genus), is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex, native to the Pyrenees, the Alps, the Carpathians, and the mountains of the Balkans.[2] It has gone extinct in Germany.[2] It propagates almost exclusively clonally, with some of its clonal colonies estimated to be 2,000 years old.[3]

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Subtaxa

The following subspecies are currently accepted:[2]

  • Carex curvula subsp. curvula
  • Carex curvula subsp. rosae Gilomen

References

  1. [1]
    Fl. Pedem. 2: 264 (1785)
  2. [2]
    "Carex curvula All". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  3. [3]
    Steinger, Thomas; Körner, Christian; Schmid, Bernhard (1996). "Long-term persistence in a changing climate: DNA analysis suggests very old ages of clones of alpine Carex curvula". Oecologia. 105 (1): 94–99. Bibcode:1996Oecol.105...94S. doi:10.1007/BF00328796. PMID 28307127. S2CID 25924193.
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