484 Carex buxbaumii Wahlenb.

This boreal-montane species has a disjunct, circumpolar distribution (Hultén, Circumpol. I, p. 272 and map 254). The taxon, mapped here, is C. buxbaumii s. str. or subsp. buxbaumii (syn.: C. polygama Schkuhr). Subsp. alpina (Hartm.) Liro (syn.: C. adelostoma V. Krecz.) is mapped separately (no. 485). Cf. also Meusel et al. 1965, map p. 71. The population in E. Asia has been distinguished as C. tarumensis Franch. C. buxbaumii is reported from Australia (actually the indigenous C. tarumensis?).