Carex maritima , called the curved sedge , is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex , with a bipolar distribution in mountains and cold regions.[ 2] [ 3] It dispersed in the Pleistocene from the northern to the southern hemisphere.[ 4]
Carex maritima
Seedheads
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
Clade :
Tracheophytes
Clade :
Angiosperms
Clade :
Monocots
Clade :
Commelinids
Order:
Poales
Family:
Cyperaceae
Genus:
Carex
Species:
C. maritima
Binomial name
Carex maritima
Synonyms [ 2]
Carex amphilogos K.Koch
Carex banata Sm.
Carex bucculenta V.I.Krecz.
Carex camptotropa V.I.Krecz.
Carex incurva Lightf.
Carex incurva var. chartacea Kük.
Carex incurva f. erecta O.Lang
Carex incurva var. inflata Simmons
Carex incurva var. melanocystis (É.Desv.) Kük.
Carex incurva var. misera (Kük.) Kük.
Carex incurva f. pallens Kük.
Carex jucunda V.I.Krecz.
Carex juncifolia All.
Carex maritima f. inflata (Simmons) Polunin
Carex maritima var. melanocystis (É.Desv.) Fernald
Carex maritima var. misera (Kük.) Fernald
Carex maritima subsp. setina (Christ) T.V.Egorova
Carex maritima var. setina (Christ) Fernald
Carex maritima subsp. yukonensis A.E.Porsild
Carex melanocystis É.Desv.
Carex melanocystis var. misera Kük.
Carex misera Phil.
Carex oligantha Phil.
Carex orthocaula V.I.Krecz.
Carex psammogaea Steud.
Carex psychroluta V.I.Krecz.
Carex setina (Christ) V.I.Krecz.
Carex stenophylla L.Thienem. ex Boott
Carex transmarina V.I.Krecz.
Caricina incurva (Lightf.) St.-Lag.
Olotrema juncifolia (All.) Raf.
Rhaptocalymna incurva (Lightf.) Fedde & J.Schust.
Vignea incurva (Lightf.) Rchb.
Vignea maritima (Gunnerus) Rchb.
Vignea maritima subsp. setina (Christ) Soják
^ Fl. Norveg. 2: 131 (1776)
^ a b "Carex maritima Gunnerus" . Plants of the World Online . Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 21 January 2021 .
^ "Carex maritima Gunnerus curved sedge" . The Royal Horticultural Society. Retrieved 21 January 2021 .
^ Villaverde, Tamara; Escudero, Marcial; Luceño, Modesto; Martín-Bravo, Santiago (2015). "Long-distance dispersal during the middle-late Pleistocene explains the bipolar disjunction of Carex maritima (Cyperaceae)". Journal of Biogeography . 42 (10): 1820–1831. doi :10.1111/jbi.12559 . hdl :10261/168322 . S2CID 85651793 .