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Sporadanthus ferrugineus de Lange, Heenan & B.D.Clarkson

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Sporadanthus ferrugineus de Lange, Heenan & B.D.Clarkson, New Zealand J. Bot. 37: 415-419 (1999)
Sporadanthus ferrugineus de Lange, Heenan & B.D.Clarkson

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de Lange, Heenan & B.D.Clarkson
de Lange, Heenan & B.D.Clarkson
1999
415-419
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Sporadanthus ferrugineus de Lange, Heenan & B.D.Clarkson
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Sporadanthus ferrugineus

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ferrugineus

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Sporadanthus ferrugineus de Lange, Heenan & B.D.Clarkson

2n = 18
2n = 18
2n = 18

Sporadanthus ferrugineus de Lange, Heenan & B.D.Clarkson

Robust, upright dioeciou s perennial, 1–4(–5) m high, forming dense rafts on acid peat. Rhizome 10–15 mm diam., horizontal, branched, covered with tightly appressed, overlapping scales; scales 10–15 × 15–20(–30) mm, ovate to broadly ovate, chartaceous, cream, pale brown to sometimes brown, lustrous, nerves slightly distinct to indistinct, apex rounded and mucronate. Roots 3 – 5 mm diam., 25–30 cm long, white, drying to grey, soft, spongy, with few (if any) rootlets. Culms up to 5 m tall, 10–15 mm diam., gradually tapering toward distal end, brittle, rigid, upright, terete to subterete, smooth to sometimes slightly grooved, green and usually glaucous when young, becoming red-brown to yellow-brown with age; branched in upper 2/3; branches numerous, slender, firm, flexible, upright, terete to subterete, often slightly compressed on one side; basal 140–200 mm of culm conspicuously swollen with soft, spongy, light brown tissue; pith absent, with 3 hollow triangular segments, these deteriorating to a ± circular cavity. Culm base with 3–7 loosely appressed, overlapping scales; scales 10–50 × 15–20(–40) mm, ovate to broadly ovate, coriaceous, light brown to brown, nerves distinct, apex rounded and mucronate. Leaves along culm solitary, distant, tightly appressed, gradually tapering toward tip; lamina 15–50 × 15–50 mm, ovate to broadly ovate, chartaceous, brown to dark brown, fading to grey, appressed to and sheathing culm, nerves indistinct; basal leaves with pectinate fringe, upper leaf margins entire or fractured into rectangular segments; apex rounded, with mucro 0.6-1.0 mm long. Inflorescence a terminal panicle, often with cymose branching near base, up to 150 mm long, red-brown, upright to spreading, sometimes drooping; male inflorescence dense, crowded; female inflorescence sparse, diffuse; flowers subtended by 2 bractlets, the 2 bractlets subtended by 1 bract; inflorescence branchlets subtended by reduced leaves. Bracts 5–7 × 3–4 mm, elliptic, lanceolate to ovate, light brown to red-brown, chartaceous, apex with mucro 1–2 mm long, margins usually membranous and fimbriate. Bractlets 1 .5–2.0 × 0 .8–1 .0 mm, elliptic to lanceolate, membranous, light brown to light red-brown, apex acute to acuminate, margins usually entire. Flowers pedicellate to almost sessile. Tepals 6, in 2 whorls of 3, 2.0–3.0 × 0.4–0.5 mm, subulate to lanceolate, light brown to yellow-brown, channelled, apex acute to weakly acuminate, mucronate. Stipe 0.6–0.8 mm long. Male flowers with 3 stamens; filaments 1.8–2.0 mm long, anthers 1.0–1.3 × 0.2–0.4 mm, cream, unilocular, medifixed, pollen yellow; pistil rudimentary. Female flowers with 1 pistil; style 0.8–1.3 mm long, pink, papillose on adaxial surface, decurrent with ovary on abaxial surface; ovary 0.3–0.7 × 0.2–0.6 mm, ± globose, amber to dark brown, vertical groove on adaxial surface; staminodes 3, each 0.5–0.8 mm long. Fruit 1.2–1.5 × 0.5–0.7 mm, narrowly ellipsoid, sides dark brown, suture light brown to cream-brown, surmounted by persistent, long style; dehiscing along abaxial suture. Seed 0.7–0.8 × 0.5–0.6 mm, shortly oblong to broadly ovate, light orange-brown when fresh, soon fading to light brown, sometimes with white blotches; testa membranous, surface bireticulate, primary pattern prominent with square t o polygonal ridges c. 1 mm wide, secondary pattern obscure to weak, irregular, ridges 5–7 mm wide; endosperm white. Chromosome number 2n = 1 8 (Murray & de Lange 1999, AK 235948; B. G. Briggs pers. comm., NSW 90806) .
A Sporadantho traversii differt rhizomatibus majoribus, culmis robustis erectis (non flexuosis), basem versus conspicue tumidis, marginibus pectinatis foliorum basalium, inflorescentiis ferrugineis, partibus floralibus semineque parveioribus, et fructu dehiscenti .

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Sporadanthus ferrugineus de Lange, Heenan & B.D.Clarkson
Sporadanthus ferrugineus de Lange, Heenan & B.D.Clarkson
Sporadanthus ferrugineus de Lange, Heenan & B.D.Clarkson
Sporadanthus ferrugineus de Lange, Heenan & B.D.Clarkson
Sporadanthus ferrugineus de Lange, Heenan & B.D.Clarkson
Sporadanthus ferrugineus de Lange, Heenan & B.D.Clarkson
Sporadanthus ferrugineus de Lange, Heenan & B.D.Clarkson
Sporadanthus ferrugineus de Lange, Heenan & B.D.Clarkson
Sporadanthus ferrugineus de Lange, Heenan & B.D.Clarkson
Sporadanthus ferrugineus de Lange, Heenan & B.D.Clarkson
Sporadanthus ferrugineus de Lange, Heenan & B.D.Clarkson
Sporadanthus ferrugineus de Lange, Heenan & B.D.Clarkson
Sporadanthus ferrugineus de Lange, Heenan & B.D.Clarkson
Sporadanthus ferrugineus de Lange, Heenan & B.D.Clarkson
Sporadanthus ferrugineus de Lange, Heenan & B.D.Clarkson
Sporadanthus ferrugineus de Lange, Heenan & B.D.Clarkson
Sporadanthus ferrugineus de Lange, Heenan & B.D.Clarkson
Sporadanthus ferrugineus de Lange, Heenan & B.D.Clarkson

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Sporadanthus ferrugineus de Lange, Heenan & B.D.Clarkson
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39cdc7bf-01c6-455c-a46f-8679f3899337
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1 January 2000
31 August 2005
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