Carex myosuroides (syn. Kobresia myosuroides), the mouse-tail bog sedge, is a species of sedge (family Cyperaceae) with a circumboreal distribution.[1] It is the only known sedge to have ectomycorrhizal associations.[2]

Carex myosuroides
At the University of Helsinki Botanical Garden, Kaisaniemi
Botanical illustration
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Cyperaceae
Genus: Carex
Species:
C. myosuroides
Binomial name
Carex myosuroides
Synonyms[1]
List
    • Carex bellardii All.
    • Carex hermaphrodita J.F.Gmel.
    • Carex scirpina (Willd.) Missbach & E.H.L.Krause
    • Carex vulcanicola Nakai
    • Elyna bellardii (All.) K.Koch
    • Elyna filiformis Steud.
    • Elyna myosuroides (Vill.) Fritsch ex Janch.
    • Elyna scirpina (Willd.) Pax
    • Elyna spicata Schrad.
    • Elyna stricta Hoppe ex Steud.
    • Kobresia filiformis Dewey
    • Kobresia myosuroides (Vill.) Fiori
    • Kobresia scirpina Willd.
    • Scirpus bellardii (All.) Wahlenb.

It is a known host to a number of fungi, including Anthracoidea elynae, Arthrinium puccinioides, Cladosporium herbarum, Clathrospora elynae, Lophodermium caricinum, Phaeosphaeria herpotrichoides, Schizonella melanogramma, Septoria punctoidea and possibly to Micropeziza cornea.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Carex myosuroides Vill". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
  2. ^ Lipson, David A.; Schadt, Christopher W.; Schmidt, Steven K.; Monson, Russell K. (1999). "Ectomycorrhizal transfer of amino acid-nitrogen to the alpine sedge Kobresia myosuroides". New Phytologist. 142: 163–167. doi:10.1046/j.1469-8137.1999.00375.x.
  3. ^ Helgi Hallgrímsson & Guðríður Gyða Eyjólfsdóttir (2004). Íslenskt sveppatal I - smásveppir [Checklist of Icelandic Fungi I - Microfungi. Fjölrit Náttúrufræðistofnunar. Náttúrufræðistofnun Íslands [Icelandic Institute of Natural History]. ISSN 1027-832X