Curved sedge ( lat. Carex curvula ) is a herbaceous plant of the sedge family ( Cyperaceae ), a species of the sedge ( Carex ).
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Botanical description
Plants with short, creeping rhizomes .
Plants monoecious. All spikelets are androgynous, 4-6 in number, in a dense, shortly bell-shaped inflorescence , few-flowered, dense, almost sessile. The lower covering sheet without vagina , scaly. Covering scales are sharp. Sacks obscure triangular, thin-webbed, 5-8 mm long, without veins , at the top along the edges with spines, with an extended one-piece or short-two-toothed spout. Rylec 3.
The fruit at the base with an axial appendage equal to it in length.
The number of chromosomes n≈86 (Reese, 1953).
Described from Northern Italy ( Piedmont ).
Spread
South Central Europe : Australia , Switzerland ; Southern Europe: France , Spain , Albania , Bulgaria , Italy , Romania , Yugoslavia ; Ukraine : the Carpathians .
It grows on highland meadows and rocks.
Systematics
The species includes two subspecies: [2]
- Carex curvula subsp. curvula - Switzerland, France, Spain, Albania, Bulgaria, Italy, Romania, Yugoslavia, Ukraine
- [ syn. Carex lobata Bellardi ]
- [ syn. Carex ovata CAMey. ]
- [ syn. Carex orbelica Velen. ]
- [ syn. Carex rodnensis (Porcius ex Asch. & Graebn.) Rouy ]
- [ syn. Carex ovata CAMey. ]
- Carex curvula subsp. rosae Gilomen - Pyrenees , Alps
- [ syn. Carex rosae (Gilomen) Holub ]
Notes
- ↑ On the conditionality of specifying the class of monocotyledons as a higher taxon for the group of plants described in this article, see the “APG Systems” section of the article “Monocotyledons” .
- ↑ Carex curvula in the Botanic Gardens database in Kew, United Kingdom (verified April 1, 2010)
Literature
- Egorova T.V. The sedges (Carex L.) of Russia and adjacent states (within the former USSR) . - St. Petersburg, St. Louis: St. Petersburg State Technical Academy of Agriculture and the Missouri Botanical Garden, 1999. - p. 152. - 772 p.
- Egorova T.V. Flora of the European part of the USSR. Volume II. Angiosperms. Yatryshnikovye, rush, sedge, kommelinovye. - L .: Science, 1976. - p. 160. - 236 p.
Links
- Carex curvula in the Database of Botanical Gardens in Kew, UK (Verified April 1, 2010)