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Carex fraseriana

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Genus of grass-like plants

Carex fraseriana
Conservation status

Apparently Secure  (NatureServe)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Cyperaceae
Genus: Carex
Species: C. fraseriana
Binomial name
Carex fraseriana
Ker Gawl.
Synonyms
  • Cymophyllus fraserianus (Ker Gawl.) Kartesz & Gandhi
  • Carex fraseri Andrews
  • Carex lagopus Muhl.
  • Olamblis fraseri (Andrews) Raf.
  • Cymophyllus fraseri (Andrews) Mack. in Britton & A.Br.

Carex fraseriana is a perennial member of the sedge family with the common name Fraser's sedge. It was the only species of the genus Cymophyllus before it was re-transferred to Carex.

Carex fraseriana is native to the Great Smoky Mountains and southern Appalachian region of the southeastern United States. It is endangered in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Maryland and Georgia.

References

  1. ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Flora of North America, Vol. 23 Page 573, Cymophyllus fraserianus (Ker Gawler) Kartesz & Gandhi, Rhodora. 93: 138. 1991.
  3. Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, Duhl, Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians, Lone Pine Publishing, (2005) p 398, ISBN 978-1-55105-428-5,
  4. Global Carex Group 2015 Making Carex monophyletic (Cyperaceae, tribe Cariceae): a new broader circumscription
  5. Govaerts, R. & Simpson, D.A. (2007). World Checklist of Cyperaceae. Sedges: 1-765. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

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Taxon identifiers
Carex fraseriana
Cymophyllus fraserianus
Cymophyllus


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