Carex curvula

Carex curvula
	Flowers
	Botanical illustration
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Cyperaceae
Genus:	Carex
Species:	C. curvula
Binomial name
	Carex curvula; All.
Synonyms
	List Caricina curvula (All.) St.-Lag.; Cryptoglochin curvulus (All.) Heuff.; Kobresia curvula (All.) N.A.Ivanova; ;

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]

Subtaxa

The following subspecies are currently accepted:^[2]

Carex curvula subsp. curvula
Carex curvula subsp. rosae Gilomen

References

^ Fl. Pedem. 2: 264 (1785)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Carex curvula All". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
^ 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.

[1] Fl. Pedem. 2: 264 (1785)

[299351-1-2] "Carex curvula All". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2021.

[1_of_2120_Google_Scholar_Hits-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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