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Carex borealipolaris

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Carex borealipolaris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Cyperaceae
Genus: Carex
Species:
C. borealipolaris
Binomial name
Carex borealipolaris
S.R.Zhang
Synonyms
List
  • Carex calcarea Melnikov
  • Carex smirnoviana Melnikov
  • Elyna sibirica Turcz.
  • Kobresia arctica A.E.Porsild
  • Kobresia bellardii var. macrocarpa (Clokey) H.D.Harr.
  • Kobresia hyperborea A.E.Porsild
  • Kobresia macrocarpa Clokey ex Mack.
  • Kobresia schoenoides var. lepagei (Duman) B.Boivin
  • Kobresia sibirica (Turcz.) Boeckeler
  • Kobresia smirnovii N.A.Ivanova

Carex borealipolaris, the Siberian bog sedge, is a species of plant known from arctic and alpine tundra habitats in Russia (Siberia, the Russian Far East), Canada (Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, British Columbia), and the United States (Alaska, Colorado (several counties in the Rockies), Utah (Duchesne County), Montana (Carbon County), and Wyoming (Park County)). Some authorities have considered the North American collections as distinct species (C. macrocarpa, described from Colorado,[1] and K. hyperborea from the Canadian Arctic),[2] but they are more often tentatively regarded as conspecific with C. borealipolaris, but this is pending further investigation.[3][4][5][6]

Carex borealipolaris is a perennial herb spreading by means of underground rhizomes. Culms are up to 40 cm tall. Leaves are narrow and thread-like, up to 15 cm long. Lower spikelets generally have both pistillate and staminate flowers, while uppermost spikelets are staminate only.[3][7][8][9][10][11]

References

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  1. ^ Clokey, Ira Waddell, ex Mackenzie, Kenneth Kent. 1931. North American Flora 18(1): 5.
  2. ^ Porsild, Alf Erling. 1951. Bulletin of the National Museum of Canada 121: 103.
  3. ^ a b Flora of North America v 23 p 253. Kobresia sibirica
  4. ^ BONAP (Biota of North America Program) floristic synthesis, Kobresia sibirica
  5. ^ Tolmatchev, A. I. 1966. Cyperaceae. Arkticheskaia Flora SSSR 3: 1–176.
  6. ^ Czerepanov, S. K. 1981. Sosudistye Rasteniia SSSR 509 pages. Nauka, Leningradskoe Otd-nie, Leningrad.
  7. ^ photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, isotype of Kobresia macrocarpa (synonym of Kobresia sibirica) collected in Colorado
  8. ^ Turczaninow, Nicolai Stepanowitsch, in Ledebour, Carl (Karl) Friedrich von. 1852. Flora Rossica 4(13): 262.
  9. ^ Boeckeler, Johann Otto. 1875. Linnaea 39: 7.
  10. ^ Cody, W. J. 1996. Flora of the Yukon Territory i–xvii, 1–669. NRC Research Press, Ottawa.
  11. ^ Welsh, S. L. 1974. Anderson's Flora of Alaska and Adjacent Parts of Canada i–xvi, 1–724. Brigham Young University Press, Provo.