Bulbostylis Kunth (Q3234)

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Bulbostylis is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Abildgaardieae
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Bulbostylis Kunth
Bulbostylis is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Abildgaardieae

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    taxon/id/Bulbostylis Kunth
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    Bulbostylis Kunth
    Bulbostylis
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Bulbostyle (English)
    Mostly of dry or periodically dry
    sandy uplands
    particularly savanna in warm-temperate and tropical regions worldwide
    Herbs, annual or perennial, cespitose, scapose, not rhizomatous.
    Roots diffuse, very fine.
    Culms stiff or flaccid, usually terete, ribbed.
    Leaves basal, polystichous, spreading to ascending;
    sheaths open apically, apex fimbriate-ciliate, rarely entire;
    ligules absent, lateral tufts of hair at junction of blade and sheath;
    blades mostly linear or filiform, coarsely ribbed, usually longer than sheaths, 1 mm wide or less, mostly strongly involute, margins variably scabridciliate.
    Inflorescences terminal on slender scapes, rarely axillary to culm leaves, simple or compound anthelae or spikelet solitary;
    spikelets 1–50+;
    involucral-bracts (1–) 2–8, spreading or erect, leaflike or scalelike.
    Spikelets mostly ovoid to lanceoloid or lance-cylindric;
    scales 6–50, spirally arranged, rarely nearly distichous, each subtending flower or 1–2 proximal scales empty.
    Flowers bisexual;
    styles slender, (2–) 3-fid, glabrous, base enlarged, persistent in fruit.
    Achenes trigonous or 3-lobed, rarely biconvex, usually 3-ribbed.