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Internal ID UUID643ff24f712e7540539185
Scientific name Carex capitata
Authority L.
First published in Syst. Nat. ed. 10 , 2: 1261 (1759)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Carex capitata subsp. arctogena (Harry Sm.) Böcher ex Á.Löve, D.Löve & B.M.Kapoor Arctic Alpine Res. 3(2): 144. 1971
Carex rahuiensis Kurtz ex V.I.Krecz. Bot. Mater. Gerb. Bot. Inst. Komarova Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. 7: 31. 1937
Carex capitata f. alpicola Andersson Nya Bot. Not. 1849: 2 1849
Diemisa capitata (L.) Raf. Good Book : 27 (1840)
Psyllophora capitata Schur Enum. Pl. Transsilv. : 697 (1866)
Vignea capitata (L.) Soják Cas. Nár. Mus., Odd. Prír. 148: 195 (1979 publ. 1980)
Carex capitata subsp. arctogena (Harry Sm.) Böcher Meddel. Gronland 147(9): 54. 1952 [31 Jul 1952]
Vignea capitata Rchb. in Moessl. Handb. Gewächsk., ed. 2. 3: 1606. 1830

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Language Common/alternative name
English capitate sedge
Spanish carex capitata subsp. arctogena
Spanish diemisa capitata
Spanish psyllophora capitata
Spanish vignea capitata
German kopf-segge
Persian کارکس کاپیتاتا
Finnish lettonuppisara
Upper Sorbian hłójčkata rězna
Norwegian Bokmål hodestarr
Russian или Осока арктическая
Russian Осока головчатая
Russian Осока арктическая
Swedish huvudstarr

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- Native
  • Asia-temperate
    • Caucasus
      • North Caucasus
    • Mongolia
      • Mongolia
    • Russian Far East
      • Khabarovsk
      • Magadan
      • Primorye
    • Siberia
      • Altay
      • Buryatiya
      • Chita
      • Irkutsk
      • Krasnoyarsk
      • West Siberia
      • Yakutskiya
  • Europe
    • Eastern Europe
      • East European Russia
      • North European Russia
      • Northwest European Russia
    • Middle Europe
      • Austria
      • Germany
    • Northern Europe
      • Finland
      • Great Britain
      • Iceland
      • Norway
      • Sweden
    • Southeastern Europe
      • Italy
    • Southwestern Europe
      • France
  • Northern America
    • Eastern Canada
      • Labrador
      • Newfoundland
      • Ontario
      • Québec
    • Mexico
      • Mexico Northeast
      • Mexico Northwest
    • Northwestern U.S.A.
      • Colorado
      • Idaho
      • Montana
      • Oregon
      • Washington
    • South-central U.S.A.
      • New Mexico
    • Southwestern U.S.A.
      • California
      • Nevada
      • Utah
    • Subarctic America
      • Alaska
      • Greenland
      • Northwest Territorie
      • Nunavut
      • Yukon
    • Western Canada
      • Alberta
      • British Columbia
      • Manitoba
      • Saskatchewan

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000345323
Canadensys 4804
USDA Plants CACA13
Tropicos 9900141
Flora of Italy 8008
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:299043-1
The Plant List kew-225331
Plantarium 8468
Open Tree Of Life 4161
Observations.org 116008
NCBI Taxonomy 140797
NBN Atlas NBNSYS0000002491
Nature Serve 2.143874
IPNI 299043-1
iNaturalist 76024
GBIF 2728838
Freebase /m/05b_ttk
FEIS plants/graminoid/carcap
EPPO CRXCT
EOL 1124767
Calflora (Californian flora) 1528
Wikipedia Carex_capitata

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Can mowing restore boreal rich-fen vegetation in the face of climate change? Ross LC, Speed JD, Øien DI, Grygoruk M, Hassel K, Lyngstad A, Moen A PLoS One 19-Feb-2019
PMCID:PMC6380559
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0211272
PMID:30779747
Vascular plant biodiversity of the lower Coppermine River valley and vicinity (Nunavut, Canada): an annotated checklist of an Arctic flora Saarela JM, Sokoloff PC, Bull RD PeerJ 31-Jan-2017
PMCID:PMC5300018
doi:10.7717/peerj.2835
PMID:28194307
Spikelet structure and development in Cyperoideae (Cyperaceae): a monopodial general model based on ontogenetic evidence Vrijdaghs A, Reynders M, Larridon I, Muasya AM, Smets E, Goetghebeur P Ann Bot 02-Mar-2010
PMCID:PMC2850794
doi:10.1093/aob/mcq010
PMID:20197291

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