Isolepis cernua (Vahl) Roem. & Schult.
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Isolepis cernua (Vahl) Roem. & Schult., Syst. Veg. 106 (1817)
Isolepis cernua (Vahl) Roem. & Schult.
Nomenclature
(Vahl) Roem. & Schult.
Vahl
Roem. & Schult.
1817
106
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Isolepis cernua
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Densely tufted or with short rhizome. Very variable in size; stems (2) -6-12- (20) cm high. Leaves many or few. Inflorescence of 1- (3) spikelets. Glumes usually red-brown with wide but not prominent green keels. Stamens 3. Style-branches 3. Nut plano-convex, rounded at tip and sharply apiculate, usually red-brown.
Variable in size, in dense tufts or with a shortly branched ascending rhizome. Culms (2)–6–12–(20) cm. long, us. c. 0.5 mm. diam. or less, but occ. up to 1 mm. diam. Lvs 1–4 or 0, ± = culms, or much < culms, c. 0.5 mm. wide, or often reduced to shortly mucronate sheaths; sheaths dark red-purple at the base, lighter brown towards the truncate orifice. Infl. of 1–(2–3) spikelets; subtending bract ± = or us. slightly > spikelets, 0.3–0.7–(2.5) cm. long, setaceous or lf-like, caducous. Spikelets 2–5 × (1)–1.5–2.5 mm., elliptical, obtuse, almost white, or green, or with red-brown markings. Glumes 1–2 mm. long, broadly ovate, only slightly concave with keel not prominent, obtuse, green to very pale straw coloured, or with red-brown markings at the sides, margins entire, membr., rounded towards the tip, or with the keel at tip of glume somewhat thickened and ± excurrent, lateral nerves conspicuous. Hypog. bristles 0. Stamens 3, rarely 2 or 1 in occasional glumes. Style-branches 3. Nut us. slightly < 1 mm. long, but occ. slightly > 1 mm., c. 0.5 mm. wide, obovoid or occ. elliptical-obovoid, plano-convex, or subtrigonous and obtusely angled at the back, rounded at the tip and sharply apiculate, red-brown or dark grey at maturity, minutely but very distinctly reticulate.
Taxonomic concepts
Fimbristylis pygmaeum Vahl
Isolepis cernua (Vahl) Roem. & Schult.
Isolepis cernua (Vahl) Roem. & Schult.
Isolepis cernua (Vahl) Roem. & Schult.
Isolepis cernua (Vahl) Roem. & Schult.
Isolepis numidiana (Vahl) Roem. & Schult.
Isolepis cernua (Vahl) Roem. & Schult.
Isolepis pygmaea (Vahl) Kunth
Isolepis cernua (Vahl) Roem. & Schult.
Isolepis riparia R.Br.
Isolepis cernua (Vahl) Roem. & Schult.
Scirpus cernuus Vahl
Isolepis cernua (Vahl) Roem. & Schult.
Scirpus numidianus Vahl
Isolepis cernua (Vahl) Roem. & Schult.
Scirpus pygmaeus (Vahl) A.Gray
Isolepis cernua (Vahl) Roem. & Schult.
Scirpus riparius (R.Br.) Spreng.
Isolepis cernua (Vahl) Roem. & Schult.
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1 January 2000
26 July 2006