Schoenus apogon Roem. & Schult.

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Name scientific

Schoenus apogon Roem. & Schult. (1817)

Preferred name

Schoenus apogon Roem. & Schult.

Taxonomy reference

Moore, L.B.; Edgar, E. 1970: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. II. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Monocotyledones except Gramineae. Botany Division DSIR, Wellington.

Linked name

Schoenus apogon Roem. & Schult.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Original authors

Roem. & Schult.

Authors

Roem. & Schult.

Year published

1817

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Schoenus apogon Roem. & Schult.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Schoenus apogon

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Poales

Family

Cyperaceae

Genus

Schoenus

Species

apogon

Subordinates

Synonyms

Descriptions

Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.

Schoenus apogon Roem. & Schult. var. apogon

Description

2n = 8

Moore, L.B.; Edgar, E. 1970: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. II. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Monocotyledones except Gramineae. Botany Division DSIR, Wellington.

Schoenus apogon Roem. & Schult.

Description

Culms ∞, densely tufted, rather flaccid, unbranched, glab. or occ. scabrid just below infl. Lvs 4–18 cm. long, very narrow-linear, acute, channelled, margins slightly scabrid; sheaths membr., reddish. Panicle of us. 2, distant or ± approximate fascicles, the terminal one us. with almost sessile, densely clustered spikelets, lower fascicles often with stalked, loosely clustered spikelets; bract subtending each fascicle lf-like, lowest bract us. overtopping whole infl. Glumes dark red-brown to almost black, us. with a paler centre, midrib often slightly scabrid, 1–3 lowermost glumes smaller, empty, often mucronate. Hypog. bristles 6, > nut. Stamens 3. Style-branches 3. Nut slightly < 1 mm. long, c. 0.5 mm. wide, elliptic-ovoid, almost globose, obtuse, apiculate, white, the 3 angles green or yellow.

Moore, L.B.; Edgar, E. 1970: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. II. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Monocotyledones except Gramineae. Botany Division DSIR, Wellington.

Schoenus apogon Roem. & Schult. var. apogon

Description

Culms 7–40–(60) cm. × 0.5–1 mm. Lvs <, rarely = culms. Spikelets 4–6 mm. long, 2–3–(4)-fld. Glumes us. reddish, rarely cream near the midrib. Nut with surface cells conspicuous under a lens.