435 Carex chordorrhiza L. fil.

This boreal-montane species is widely distributed in Eurasia and N. America. It was formerly more common in C. Europe. It belongs to the circumpolar plants (Hultén, Circumpol. I, p. 94 and map 85). The population in SE. Asia is distinguished as var. pseudocuraica Turcz. (C. pseudocuraica F. Schm.). Cf. also Meusel et al. 1965, map p. 66.