Scirpus aucklandicus (Hook.f.) Boeckeler
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Scirpus aucklandicus (Hook.f.) Boeckeler (1870)
Nomenclature
(Hook.f.) Boeckeler
Hook.f.
Boeckeler
1870
ICN
species
Scirpus aucklandicus
Classification
Subordinates
Descriptions
Scirpus aucklandicus (Hook.f.) Boeckeler
Rhizomatous, in bright green, very leafy patches (1) -2-6- (12) cm high. Inflorescence of 1- (2) spikelets partly hidden by bract. Stamens 3. Style-branches 3. Nut 1-2 mm long, trigonous, white or grey.
Scirpus aucklandicus (Hook.f.) Boeckeler
Rhizomatous, forming large, turfy patches, bright green above, fuscous towards the base. Rhizome c. 0.5 mm. diam. Culms 2–5–(7) cm. × c. 0.5 mm., rigid. Lvs up to 6 per culm, us. > culms, c. 0.5 mm. wide, or often setaceous and filiform, coriac., curved; sheaths with truncate orifice, pale brown and membr., often streaked with red, rarely entirely dark red-purple. Infl. apparently lateral, of 1–(2) narrow-oblong spikelets, (1)–2–3–(4) × (0.5)–1–1.5–(2) mm., partly hidden by the enlarged base of a subtending bract up to 5 times length of spikelet. Glumes 1.5–2.5 mm. long, lanceolate, acute, deciduous, green to pale grey-brown with reddish marks, to deep red-purple, margins tapered and often pinched in at the tip below the green, thickened, ± excurrent keel. Hypog. bristles 0. Stamens 3. Style-branches 3. Nut 1–2 mm. long, slightly > 0.5 mm. wide, almost = glume, elliptical, ± trigonous with rounded angles, almost white to yellowish, or grey- to red-brown, smooth and shining but very finely reticulate, tapering towards the apiculate black tip.
Taxonomic concepts
Scirpus aucklandicus (Hook.f.) Boeckeler
Scirpus aucklandicus (Hook.f.) Boeckeler
Scirpus aucklandicus (Hook.f.) Boeckeler
Scirpus aucklandicus (Hook.f.) Boeckeler
Scirpus aucklandicus (Hook.f.) Boeckeler
Scirpus aucklandicus (Hook.f.) Boeckeler
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scientific name
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24 June 2002
20 July 2006