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Carex fumosimontana
Species of grass-like plant From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Carex fumosimontana, the Great Smoky Mountain sedge, is a species of sedge endemic to the Great Smoky Mountains in the southeastern United States.[1] It was first formally described in 2013 by American botanist Dwayne Estes in Brittonia.[2][3]
It is part of the Carex crinita complex within the section Carex sect. Phacocystis.[2] It is a small complex of species characterized in part by their thick, pendulous spikes, rough, three-veined pistillate scales, leaves over 2 mm in width, and ladder-fibrillose sheathes. Carex fumosimontana is most similar to Carex gynandra, but can be distinguished from other species in this complex by a combination of the following characters: dark reddish brown pistillate scales, reddish sheaths, elliptical rather than ovate perigynia, and smooth or minutely papillose perigynia.[2]
Carex fumosimontana occurs in openings within the spruce-fir forests of the Great Smoky Mountains in North Carolina and Tennessee. It is found in mesic sedge meadows and seeps at the edge of rock outcrops.[2] The name is from the Latin for "smoky" and "mountain", in reference to the type locality.
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