Isolepis praetextata (Edgar) Soják
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Isolepis praetextata (Edgar) Soják, 148 (1980 [1978])
Isolepis praetextata (Edgar) Soják
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(Edgar) Soják
Edgar
Soják
1980
1978
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species
Isolepis praetextata
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Tufted perennial, often prostrate or drooping, from a slender ascending rhizome c. 0.5 mm in diameter. Culms 3-30 cm × 0-5-1 mm; 1-2 basal bracts per culm, membranous, grey-brown or sometimes red-purple. Leaves (l)-2-3-(4) per culm, shorter than or equalling culms; sheath often streaked with red-purple. Inflorescence c. (3)-4—5 mm high and (3)-5-9 mm broad, usually almost semicircular in outline, of 2—5 ovate, obtuse, closepacked spikelets, each usually dark red-purple, almost black below and green above to grey-brown later, rarerly entirely grey-green; subtending bract much exceeding inflorescence, up to 10 cm long, rigid, as wide as a foliage leaf, red-purple at base, sometimes a second shorter subtending bract is present. Glumes 2—2-5 mm long, lanceolate, acute, membranous, tinged with redpurple, keel very thick, green, slightly excurrent. Stamens 3 in lower glumes, to 2-1 above. Style branches 3. Hypogynous bristles 0. Nut about half the length of the glume, c. 1 × 0-5 mm, trigonous, with angles slightly thickened, elliptical, smooth, pale cream, shortly stipitate and apiculate.
Herba perennis spissis foliis, stolonifera. Culmi 3—30 cm long, subflaccidi. Folia breviora culmis vel eis aequantia; vagina saepe purpureo colore tincta. Spiculae 2—5, prope in formam semicirculi dispositae, compactae, rubro-purpureae basi, glaucae supra, vel rarissime glaucae per totam spiculam; bractea subjacens inflorescentiam longitudine multo superans, basi rubro-purpurea. Glumae lanceolatae, acutae, purpureo colore tinctae; Carina crassa, viridia. Stamina 3 in glumis inferioribus, in superioribus 2-1. Styli rami 3. Setae hypogynae 0. Nux c. dimidium glumae, trigona, laevis, pallida.
Thick tufts. Stems rather lax, 3-30 cm high. Leaf sheaths usually dark red-purple. Inflorescence ± semicircular in outline, of 2-5 spikelets, almost black at base, lighter green at tips, with long rigid bract. Stamens 2-1. Style-branches 3. Nut trigonous, cream.
Taxonomic concepts
Isolepis praetextata (Edgar) Soják
Isolepis praetextata (Edgar) Soják
Isolepis praetextata (Edgar) Soják
Isolepis praetextata (Edgar) Soják
Isolepis praetextata (Edgar) Soják
Isolepis praetextata (Edgar) Soják
Isolepis praetextata (Edgar) Soják
Isolepis praetextata (Edgar) Soják
Isolepis praetextata (Edgar) Soják
Scirpus praetextatus Edgar
Isolepis praetextata (Edgar) Soják
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1 January 2000
18 July 2006