Isolepis R. Brown (Q3270)

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Isolepis is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Cypereae
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Isolepis R. Brown
Isolepis is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Cypereae

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    Isolepis R. Brown
    Isolepis
    R. Brown
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Worldwide in cool-tropical and temperate regions
    especially Africa and Australia
    Herbs, annual or perennial, cespitose, rhizomatous or not, smooth, glabrous.
    sheaths green to stramineous, sometimes reddish proximally;
    blades rudimentary to exceeding culms.
    Inflorescences terminal, sometimes pseudolateral, capitate or solitary spikelet;
    spikelets 1–3 (–15);
    involucral-bracts 1 (–2), spreading to erect, like foliage leaf-blades.
    Spikelets: scales 8–25, spirally arranged, each subtending flower.
    Flowers bisexual;
    stamens 1–3;
    styles linear, 2–3-fid, base persistent, sometimes slightly enlarged.
    Achenes biconvex or trigonous, papillose or longitudinally ribbed.