Schoenoplectus lateriflorus(Gmel.) Lye [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Jean Raynal, Scirpus supinusR.Br. [family CYPERACEAE ] Isolepis supina(L.) R.Br. [family CYPERACEAE ] Scirpus variabilis(R.Br.) Poir. [family CYPERACEAE ]
Related name
Scirpus lateriflorus
Isolepis oryzetorum
Scirpus variabilis
Scirpus supinus
Schoenoplectus lateriflorus
Isolepis supina
Scirpus erectus
Flora
Entry for SCHOENOPLECTUS lateriflorus (Gmel.) 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 lateriflorus(Gmel.) Lye [family CYPERACEAE], (1971). Fig. 61 D, E.
Scirpus supinus [family CYPERACEAE], sensu Cuf. Enum.: 1473 (1970), non L.
Information
Tufted annual with few–many crowded stems; stems 4–40 cm long, or total length 8–60 cm when including the bract, 0.4–2 mm thick, triangular to almost terete. Leaf-sheaths ending in minute lobes or well developed blades 10–30 cm long. Inflorescence lax with clusters of spikelets on branches of unequal length, or contracted to a pseudo-lateral globose cluster; major involucral bract 3–12 cm long, stem-like, shorter than the stem. Spikelets 4–10 mm x 2–2.5 mm, ovoid, acute, variegated grey, green and brown. Glumes c. 3 mm long, ovate, reddish brown or pale with reddish brown lines or patches; margin shortly hairy or glabrous; midrib green, excurrent in a short mucro. Perianth absent. Style with 3 branches. Nutlet 1–1.3 x c. 1 mm, broadly ovoid, triangular, transversely wrinkled, blackish when mature. Basal flowers often present and producing c. 1.5 mm long and wide almost smooth nutlets.
