Carex lanceolata

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|image=Carex lanceolata hikagesuge01.jpg

|image_caption=Habit

|genus=Carex

|species=lanceolata

|authority=BoottM.C.Perry, Narr. Exped. China Japan 2: 326 (1857)

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• Carex charkeviczii A.E.Kozhevn.
• Carex delicatula C.B.Clarke
• Carex foliabunda A.E.Kozhevn.
• Carex karafutoana Ohwi
• Carex lanceolata var. pseudolanceolata (V.I.Krecz.) Vorosch.
• Carex lancibracteata A.E.Kozhevn.
• Carex longisquamata Meinsh. ex Kom.
• Carex neokukenthaliana H.Lév. & Vaniot
• Carex neosachalinensis A.E.Kozhevn.
• Carex paucimascula H.Lév. & Vaniot
• Carex prevernalis Kitag.
• Carex pseudolanceolata V.I.Krecz.
• Carex subpediformis (Kük.) Sutô & Suzuki
• Carex vorobjevii A.E.Kozhevn.
• Carex yesoensis Koidz.

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Carex lanceolata is a species of sedge (genus Carex), native to the eastern half of China, Mongolia, eastern Siberia, Korea, Sakhalin, and Japan.{{cite web |url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:300542-1 |title=Carex lanceolata Boott |author= |date=2017 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=17 January 2021 }} Its seeds are dispersed by ants.{{cite journal |title=Negative correlation between dispersal investment and canopy openness among populations of the ant-dispersed sedge, Carex lanceolata |year=2020 |last1=Tanaka |first1=Koki |last2=Tokuda |first2=Makoto |journal=Plant Ecology |volume=221 |issue=11 |pages=1105–1115 |doi=10.1007/s11258-020-01065-6 |s2cid=221019572 }}