3309004 Carex rostrata Stokes
Distribution
Northern Iceland: Frequent
Northern Fennoscandia: Frequent
Kanin - Pechora: Scattered
Polar Ural - Novaya Zemlya: Scattered
Yamal - Gydan: Rare
Kharaulakh: Rare
West Chukotka: Presence uncertain
South Chukotka: Rare
Western Greenland: Scattered
Shrub Tundra: Scattered
Bordering boreal or alpine areas: Frequent
- Stokes in With., Bot. Arr. Brit. Pl., ed. 2, 2: 1059 (1787) nom. cons. prop.. Neotype (CGE-B): Scotland: Islay, Bridgend Eallabus "Ealabus", 21. Aug. 1844 typ. cons. prop. (Molina et al. 2006: 532).
- Carex inflata Huds., Fl. Angl.: 354 (1762) nom. rejic. prop.. Neotype (K): England: E. Yorkshire, Ampleforth, 05. July 1919, leg. F.L.S. Lester-Garland 726 (Molina et al. 2006: 532).
- Carex utriculata sensu V.I. Krecz. (1935), non Boott (1839).
2n=
60-ca. 78. - Europe, Siberia (S), Far East (N), Alaska. - Numerous reports.
There is a certain concentration of reports on the numbers 2n = 60 and 76.
Geography: Circumboreal-polar: ICE NOR RUS SIB RFE GRL.
Notes: Porsild (1932) and some earlier authors have suggested Carex rostrata to have been introduced to southern Greenland from northern Europe in Medieval times, because it only occurs within the region of Norse farming settlements. This hypothesis must be rejected because subfossils of C. rostrata well predating the Norse immigration have been found in southern Greenland (see Pedersen 1972). The Greenland sites taken into use by the Viking farmers were naturally the climatically most favourable places they could find and therefore also those with most occurrences of native, relatively thermophilous plants. This consideration is relevant for several other species suspected by some authors as Norse adventives in Greenland (e.g., Carex lyngbyei and Leymus arenarius).
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Source: Chrizz at Wikispecies
Higher Taxa
- Carex [3309,genus]