| Carex curvula | |
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| Flowers | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Cyperaceae |
| Genus: | Carex |
| Species: | C. curvula |
| Binomial name | |
| Carex curvula All. | |
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List
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Carex curvula, the Alpine sedge (a name it shares with other members of its genus), is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex, native to the Pyrenees, the Alps, the Carpathians, and the mountains of the Balkans. It has gone extinct in Germany. It propagates almost exclusively clonally, with some of its clonal colonies estimated to be 2,000 years old.
Subtaxa
The following subspecies are currently accepted:
- Carex curvula subsp. curvula
- Carex curvula subsp. rosae Gilomen
References
- Fl. Pedem. 2: 264 (1785)
- ^ "Carex curvula All". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
- Steinger, Thomas; Körner, Christian; Schmid, Bernhard (1996). "Long-term persistence in a changing climate: DNA analysis suggests very old ages of clones of alpine Carex curvula". Oecologia. 105 (1): 94–99. Bibcode:1996Oecol.105...94S. doi:10.1007/BF00328796. PMID 28307127. S2CID 25924193.