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Shiro TSUYUZAKI
Plant community ecology / Environmental conservation

Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

(Update on April 25 2011)

Carex sabynensis Less. ex Kunth var. sabynensis
[Cyperaceae]

Kamikawasuge (カミカワスゲ, 上川菅)

Life form: deciduous, perennial sedge
Distribution: northeastern China - eastern Siberia - Korea - Japan - Sakhalin - Kuril
Habitat: grassland - open forest

Synonyms

C. umbrosa Host subsp. pseudosabynensis T. V. Egorova
C. hypochlora Freyn
C. pseudosabynensis (T. V. Egorova) A. E. Kozhevn.
C. recticulmis Franch.
C. umbrosa Host subsp. sabynensis (Less. ex Kunth) Kuk.

Varieties

var. rostrata (Maxim.) Ohwi (ツルカミカワスゲ): Kushu and Honshu in Japan


Carex sabynensis on Mount Koma

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[Left] a patch. [Center] close-up of the base. [Right] close-up of inflorescences. On the southwest slope of Mount Koma on June 15 2010.

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References

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