Carex remota
{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
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| image = Carex remota by stream.jpg
| image_caption = Ripening seedhead
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| genus = Carex
| species = remota
| authority = L.Fl. Angl.: 24 (1754)
| synonyms = {{collapsible list|
- Caricina remota (L.) St.-Lag.
- Diemisa remota (L.) Raf.
- Vignea remota (L.) Rchb.
}}
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Carex remota, the remote sedge, is a species in the genus Carex, native to Europe, the Atlas Mountains in Africa, and western Asia.{{cite web |url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:301911-1 |title=Carex remota L. |author= |date=2017 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=16 December 2020 }} It is a riparian forest specialist.{{cite journal |title=Drivers of a riparian forest specialist (Carex remota, Cyperaceae): It is not only a matter of soil moisture |year=2014 |last1=Uria-Diez |first1=J. |last2=Gazol |first2=A. |last3=Ibanez |first3=R. |journal=American Journal of Botany |volume=101 |issue=8 |pages=1286–1292 |doi=10.3732/ajb.1300443 |pmid=25143468 |doi-access=free }} It is known as one of the most frequently hybridizing species of Carex, forming hybrids with C.{{nbsp}}appropinquata, C.{{nbsp}}arenaria, C.{{nbsp}}brizoides, C.{{nbsp}}canescens, C.{{nbsp}}divulsa, C.{{nbsp}}echinata, C.{{nbsp}}elongata, C.{{nbsp}}leporina,{{efn|C. leporina is often called by the synonym, a nom. illeg., Carex ovalis.{{cite web |author1=Barbara Wilson |author2=((Carex Working Group)) |title=The Carex leporina/ovalis/leporina name problem |url=http://www.carexworkinggroup.com/pages/february2008.html |website=www.carexworkinggroup.com |access-date=23 April 2022 |date=February 2008}}}} C.{{nbsp}}otrubae, C.{{nbsp}}paniculata, and C.{{nbsp}}spicata.{{cite journal |title=Phylogenetic relationships in Carex, subgenus Vignea (Cyperaceae), based on ITS sequences |year=2004 |last1=Hendrichs |first1=M. |last2=Michalski |first2=S. |last3=Begerow |first3=D. |last4=Oberwinkler |first4=F. |last5=Hellwig |first5=F. H. |journal=Plant Systematics and Evolution |volume=246 |issue=1–2 |pages=109–125 |doi=10.1007/s00606-004-0127-1 |bibcode=2004PSyEv.246..109H |s2cid=19528871 }}
Description
Remote sedge forms grass-like clumps up to 75 cm tall by 30 cm in diameter. The stems are green, trigonous (i.e. triangular in section) and faintly serrated above the top leaf (which is, technically, the peduncle). The leaves are 30–60 cm long, v-shaped and upright, turning flat and drooping towards the tips, bright green and finely serrated. The inflorescence consists of 4–10 sessile spikes which corkscrew up the stem, typically about 5 mm long and very pale green.{{cite book |last1=Jermy |first1=A.C. |last2=Simpson |first2=D.A |last3=Foley |first3=M.J.Y. |last4=Porter |first4=M.S |title=Sedges of the British Isles |date=2007 |publisher=Botanical Society of the British Isles |location=London |isbn=978-0-901158-35-2}}
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Category:Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
Category:Plants described in 1754
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