3309097 Carex lidii Hadac
Distribution
Svalbard - Franz Joseph Land: Scattered
Eastern Greenland: Rare
Northern arctic Tundra: Rare
Mid Arctic Tundra: Rare
Shrub Tundra: Rare
- Hadac, Skr. Svalbard Nordishavet 87: 24 (1944). Holotype (O): Svalbard: "Vindodden, sub mte. Belvedere", 09. Aug. 1939, leg. E. Hadac.
Geography: Amphi-Atlantic: NOR GRL.
Notes: Carex lidii is known from several localities on Spitsbergen and Edgeøya in Svalbard and from eastern Greenland. It has been assumed to be the hybrid C. maritima x parallela. Øvstedal and Haaland (1996) threw doubts on that hypothesis. We therefore provisionally accept it as a species until its origin is clarified. Both Engelskjøn (in comment) and Elven still consider the C. maritima x parallela hypothesis as the most probable. Carex lidii occurs in populations but perhaps of a clonal origin. Fruit maturation has not been observed.
Higher Taxa
- Carex [3309,genus]