Carex laevigata

Carex laevigata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Poales
Family: Cyperaceae
Genus: Carex
Subgenus: C. subg. Carex
Section: C. sect. Spirostachyae
Species: C. laevigata
Binomial name
Carex laevigata
Sm.

Carex laevigata is a species of sedge. It lives in moist, shady environment in the lowlands of Western and Central Europe, particularly in alder–ash woodland.[1] It is distinguished from similar species, such as C. binervis and C. distans by the presence of tiny red dots on the utricles.[1] Carex laevigata was first described by James Edward Smith in 1800, in a paper in the journal Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b A. C. Jermy, D. A. Simpson, M. J. Y. Foley & M. S. Porter (2007). "Carex laevigata Sm.". Sedges of the British Isles. BSBI Handbook No. 1 (3rd ed.). Botanical Society of the British Isles. pp. 356–357. ISBN 978-0-901158-35-2. 
  2. ^ James Edward Smith (1800). "Descriptions of five new British species of Carex". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 5 (19): 264–273. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1800.tb00600.x. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/46568#page/312/mode/1up. 

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