Uncinia hookeri Boott
Details
Uncinia hookeri Boott in Hooker, Bot. Antarct. Voy. I. (Fl. Antarct.) Part I, 91, t. 51 (1844)
Nomenclature
Boott
Boott
1844
91, t. 51
ICN
Uncinia hookeri Boott
species
Uncinia hookeri
Classification
Descriptions
Uncinia hookeri Boott
2n = 88
Uncinia hookeri Boott
Dense, stiff tufts from a slender rhizome c. 1mm. diam. Culms 4–10–(25) cm. × c. 0.5 mm., glab.; basal bracts dark brown. Lvs 5–9 per culm, much > flowering culms but us. only slightly < fruiting culms, 1.5–2 mm. wide, dark green, rigid, involute, scabrid on margins and upper surface towards tip. Spikes (1)–2–3.5 cm. × c. 3 mm., greenish brown, female fls c. 10–20, crowded towards top of spike with internodes 1–3 mm. long, more distant in lower third of spike with internodes up to 4 mm. long. Glumes ± = or slightly > utricles, deciduous, lanceolate, acute, membr., light or dark brown, us. with a prominent green midrib and two very dark brown lateral veins, margin pale brown. Utricles 4–5 mm. long, slightly < 1 mm. diam., trigonous or subtrigonous, oblong or lanceolate, light green, nerved, occ. only faintly so on the two abaxial surfaces, slightly contracted at the base to a stipe c. 1 mm. long, beak 1–1.5 mm. long; strongly spreading when ripe.
Taxonomic concepts
Uncinia hookeri Boott
Uncinia hookeri Boott
Uncinia hookeri Boott
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Metadata
4da66a73-e811-41c2-8845-d8d00eb7bdaf
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
19 August 2015