Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Show more
Details
Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 298 (1864)
Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Nomenclature
(Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Hook.f.
Hook.f.
1864
298
ICN
species
Schoenus pauciflorus
Classification
Vernacular names
Synonyms
Descriptions
Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
2n = 28, 56
Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Rush-like; rhizome short, hard and woody, up to 3 mm. diam. Culms (10)–30–80–(90) cm. × 0.5–1.5 mm., densely tufted, longitudinally striate, grey-green or often red. Lvs reduced to ∞, very dark red-purple, basal sheaths, the uppermost 4–14 cm. long, the mucro much elongated, with toothed margins, occ. green. Panicle 1.5–3 cm. long, ± compact, with (1)–2–6–(9) spikelets at the tips of erect, slightly scabrid branchlets, the whole subtended by a stiff bract overtopping the panicle. Spikelets c. 5 mm. long, 2–4-fld, lanceolate. Glumes 4–6, lanceolate, 2–3 lowermost smaller, empty, membr. and colourless, or occ. brown; upper glumes darker brown, pale at the centre, margins hyaline, not ciliate. Hypog. bristles 6, filiform, almost = style, scabrid, persistent. Stamens 3. Style-branches 3, style often persistent. Nut 2–2.5 mm. long, slightly < 1 mm. wide, elliptic-oblong, greenish brown to red-brown, lighter brown at the angles, shining, smooth.
Taxonomic concepts
Chaetospora pauciflora Hook.f.
Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Schoenus pauciflorus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Collections
Metadata
bb88aee7-f65f-4200-b5cc-dd181408494f
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
6 October 2008