Carex myosuroides

Carex myosuroides (syn. Kobresia myosuroides), the mouse-tail bog sedge, is a species of sedge (family Cyperaceae) with a circumboreal distribution.[1] It is the only known sedge to have ectomycorrhizal associations.[2]

Carex myosuroides
At the University of Helsinki Botanical Garden, Kaisaniemi
Botanical illustration
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Cyperaceae
Genus: Carex
Species:
C. myosuroides
Binomial name
Carex myosuroides
Synonyms[1]
List
    • Carex bellardii All.
    • Carex hermaphrodita J.F.Gmel.
    • Carex scirpina (Willd.) Missbach & E.H.L.Krause
    • Carex vulcanicola Nakai
    • Elyna bellardii (All.) K.Koch
    • Elyna filiformis Steud.
    • Elyna myosuroides (Vill.) Fritsch ex Janch.
    • Elyna scirpina (Willd.) Pax
    • Elyna spicata Schrad.
    • Elyna stricta Hoppe ex Steud.
    • Kobresia filiformis Dewey
    • Kobresia myosuroides (Vill.) Fiori
    • Kobresia scirpina Willd.
    • Scirpus bellardii (All.) Wahlenb.

References
  1. "Carex myosuroides Vill". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
  2. Lipson, David A.; Schadt, Christopher W.; Schmidt, Steven K.; Monson, Russell K. (1999). "Ectomycorrhizal transfer of amino acid-nitrogen to the alpine sedge Kobresia myosuroides". New Phytologist. 142: 163–167. doi:10.1046/j.1469-8137.1999.00375.x.


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