Carex subspathacea

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Cladus: Commelinids
Ordo: Poales

Familia: Cyperaceae
Subfamilia: Cyperoideae
Tribus: Cariceae
Genus: Carex
Species: Carex subspathacea
Name

Carex subspathacea Wormsk. ex Hornem. in G.C.Oeder & al. (eds.), Fl. Dan. 9: 4, t (1530) (1816).
Synonyms

Homotypic
Carex salina var. subspathacea (Wormsk. ex Hornem.) Tuck., Enum. Meth. Caric.: 12 (1843).
Carex salina subsp. subspathacea (Wormsk. ex Hornem.) Nyman, Consp. Fl. Eur.: 776 (1882).
Homotypic
Carex aquatilis subsp. nardifolia Wahlenb., Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Nya Handl. 24: 165 (1803).
Carex hoppneri Boott in W.J.Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 219 (1839).
Carex subspathacea f. curvata Drejer, Naturhist. Tidsskr. 3: 456 (1841).
Carex subspathacea f. stricta Drejer, Naturhist. Tidsskr. 3: 456 (1841).
Carex subspathacea f. nardifolia (Wahlenb.) Fr., Novit. Fl. Suec. Mant. 3: 149 (1843).
Carex subspathacea var. planifolia Fr., Novit. Fl. Suec. Mant. 3: 149 (1843).
Carex salina var. pumila Blytt, Norges Fl. 1: 218 (1861).
Carex salina var. minor Boott, Ill. Gen. Carex 4: 160 (1867).
Carex salina f. nana Trautv., Consp. Fl. Now.-Semlja: 82 (1871).
Carex salina f. stricta (Drejer) Almq., Bot. Not (1891): 127 (1891).

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Continental: Subarctic Northern Hemisphere
Alaska, Greenland, Iceland, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kuril Is., Labrador, Magadan, Manitoba, Newfoundland, North European Russi, Northwest Territorie, Norway, Nunavut, Ontario, Qubec, Sakhalin, Svalbard, West Siberia, Yakutskiya, Yukon
Continental: Asia-Temperate
Regional: Eastern Asia
Japan

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition
References
Primary references

Hornemann, J.W. in G.C.Oeder & al. (eds.) 1816. Flora Danica Icones Plantarum ... Florae Danicae Nomine Inscriptum. Kobenhavn. 9(26): 6, t (1530) (1816)/html/taxon.pl?417488]

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Carex subspathacea in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2020 Feb 05. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2020. Carex subspathacea. Published online. Accessed: Feb 05 2020.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Carex subspathacea in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2020 Feb 05. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2020. Carex subspathacea. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 05 Feb 2020.
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. [1]

Carex subspathacea, called Hoppner's sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex, native to coastal salt marshes of the Arctic and northwest Pacific Oceans; Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, northern and far eastern Russia, Korea, and Japan.[2] It is grazed by snow geese (Anser caerulescens).[3]
References

G.C.Oeder & al. (eds.), Fl. Dan. 9: 4, t. 1530 (1816)
"Carex subspathacea Wormsk. ex Hornem". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
Kotanen, P.; Jefferies, R. L. (1987). "The Leaf and Shoot Demography of Grazed and Ungrazed Plants of Carex subspathacea". Journal of Ecology. 75 (4): 961–975. doi:10.2307/2260307. JSTOR 2260307.