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Bolboschoenus maritimus

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Name

Identification
Bolboschoenus maritimus (A.Nelson) T.Koyama [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by T.Koyama, 1986
Related name
  • Bolboschoenus maritimus
  • Scirpus hyalinolepis
  • Scirpus maritimus
Common name
  • scirpe des marais salés, Flora of North America Vol. 23
  • Salt-marsh bulrush, Flora of North America Vol. 23
  • scirpe maritime, Flora of North America Vol. 23
  • alkali bulrush, Flora of North America Vol. 23
  • bayonet-grass, Flora of North America Vol. 23
  • Bolboschoenus des marais salés, Flora of North America Vol. 23

Flora

Entry for SCHOENOPLECTUS maritimus (L.) Lye [family CYPERACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by K. A. Lye [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
SCHOENOPLECTUS maritimus (L.) Lye [family CYPERACEAE], (1971);
Scirpus maritimus L. [family CYPERACEAE], (1753);. [type as above]
Bolboschoenus maritimus (L.) Palla [family CYPERACEAE], (1904). Fig. 60 E–G. [type as above]
Information
Perennial with long hardened stolons ending in tubers or stems; stems 40–120 cm long and 2–5 mm thick, sharply triangular, pith-filled or hollow. Leaf-blades 25–40 cm long and 3–10 mm wide, flat; sheaths greenish. Inflorescence with clusters of spikelets on branches of very unequal length (usually 0.5–3 cm long); total number of spikelets usually 5–40; largest involucral bracts usually 8–15 cm long, erect or spreading, similar to the leaf-blades. Spikelets 10–50 mm long and 3–5 mm wide, ovate to elongate and often somewhat curved, golden brown to reddish brown. Glumes 5–6 mm long, ovate with midrib excurrent; margin and surface with minute hairs. Perianth-bristles 6. Style with 3 branches. Nutlet 2–2.6 x 1.4–1.8 mm, 3-angular, dark brown and smooth as mature.
Range
S2, 3 pantropical as well as in temperate regions.
Altitude range
near sea-level to 100 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Paoli 210; Moggi & Bavazzano 270; Friis & al. 4604.
Distribution (external)
Djibouti

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