Isolepis crassiuscula Hook.f.

Details

Name scientific

Isolepis crassiuscula Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. III. (Fl. Tasman.) Part II, 86, t. 143 (1858)

Preferred name

Isolepis crassiuscula Hook.f.

Taxonomy reference

Muasya, A.M.; Simpson, D.A. 2002: A monograph of the genus Isolepis R.Br. (Cyperaceae). Kew Bulletin 57(2): 257–362.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Muasya, A.M.; Simpson, D.A. (2002)

Widespread in SE Asia and Australasia: Japan, Papua New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand.

Nomenclature

Authors

Hook.f.

Original authors

Hook.f.

Publication place

Hooker, J.D. 1858–1859: The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. III. Flora Tasmaniae. Part II. Monocotyledones and acotyledones. Lovell Reeve, London.

Year published

1858

Publication page

86, t. 143

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Isolepis crassiuscula Hook.f.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Isolepis crassiuscula

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Poales

Family

Cyperaceae

Genus

Isolepis

Species

crassiuscula

Synonyms

Descriptions

Healy, A. J.; Edgar, E. 1980: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. III. Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous and Spathaceous Monocotyledons. Government Printer, Wellington.

Scirpus crassiusculus (Hook.f.) Benth.

Description

Rhizome far-extending. Stems (2) -4-8- (15) cm high, very leafy. Inflorescence of 1 comparatively large (± 6mm long) spikelet, green flecked with red, ebracteate. Stamens 3. Style-branches 2. Nut plano-convex, much compressed, grey.

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

Scirpus crassiusculus (Hook.f.) Benth.

Description

Rhizome much elongated, branched and rooting at the nodes. Culms (2)–4–8–(15) cm. long, slightly < 1 mm. diam., rigid, erect, us. lfy. Lvs 4–6 cm. long, slightly < 1 mm. wide, <, = or > culms, narrow-linear, lamina flattened, tip subobtuse; lowermost lf on branch bract-like with pale membr. sheath to 4 mm. wide. Infl. a solitary spikelet, or very rarely 2, terminal and appearing so, pale green, flecked with red; subtending bract 0. Spikelets (3)–5.5–6.5–(8) × (2)–3–5 mm., oblong or ovoid. Glumes 2–4 mm. long, broadly ovate, obtuse, finely nerved, green at the centre, red-purple towards the margins. Hypog. bristles 0. Stamens 3. Style-branches 2. Nut c. 1.5 × 1 mm., obovate, much compressed, margins slightly thickened, minutely apiculate, grey.