Carex maritima

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 Gunnerus[1]
Synonyms[2]
List 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

References

1. Fl. Norveg. 2: 131 (1776)
2. "Carex maritima Gunnerus". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
3. "Carex maritima Gunnerus curved sedge". The Royal Horticultural Society. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
4. 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.