485 Carex adelostoma V. Krecz.

Syn.: C. buxbaumii Wahlenb. subsp. alpina (Hartm.) Liro

This mainly arctic-montane species occurs in Eurasia and N. America. Only scattered occurrences are known from Siberia and N. America. The species is probably more common than this. "It might very well be a circumpolar plant" (Hultén, Amphi-atl., p. 36 and map 18). Cf. also Meusel et al. 1965, map p. 71.