429 Carex capitata L.

This arctic-montane species (excl. var. arctogena [H. Sm.] Hult., map 430) has an almost completely circumpolar distribution. However, it is reported among the amphi-atlantic plants (Hultén, Amphiatl., p. 38 and map 20). It also occurs as an indigenous plant in S. America (S of 32° S). Thus, it is a bipolar species. World map in Meusel et al. 1965, p. 64.

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