Carex breviculmis
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Cyperaceae |
| Genus: | Carex |
| Species: | C. breviculmis
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Carex breviculmis, called the Asian shortstem sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex, native to Asia from the Indian subcontinent to Southeast Asia, China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, north as far as Khabarovsk Krai, and Malesia, New Guinea, Australia, Norfolk Island and New Zealand.[2] It has been introduced to the US state of Mississippi.[3] Typically found in forests, it is quite shade tolerant.[4]
Subtaxa
[edit]The following varieties are currently accepted:[2]
- Carex breviculmis var. breviculmis
- Carex breviculmis var. discoidea (Boott) Boott – Japan
- Carex breviculmis var. fibrillosa (Franch. & Sav.) Matsum. & Hayata – China, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan
- Carex breviculmis var. montivaga (S.T.Blake) Noot. – New Guinea
- Carex breviculmis var. perciliata Kük. – Malesia to New Guinea
- Carex breviculmis var. puberula (Boott) Makino – Japan
References
[edit]- ^ Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland.: 242 (1810)
- ^ a b c "Carex breviculmis R.Br". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
- ^ "Plant profile for Carex breviculmis R. Br. Asian shortstem sedge". Plants Database. USDA. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
Other Common Names: blue sedge
- ^ Teng, Ke; Teng, Wenjun; Wen, Haifeng; Yue, Yuesen; Guo, Weier; Wu, Juying; Fan, Xifeng (2019). "PacBio single-molecule long-read sequencing shed new light on the complexity of the Carex breviculmis transcriptome". BMC Genomics. 20 (1): 789. doi:10.1186/s12864-019-6163-6. PMC 6821003. PMID 31664898.
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