Eleocharis wolfii (A. Gray) A. Gray ex Britton in H. N. Patterson (Q3330)

From Canadian Flora Commons
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Eleocharis wolfii is a taxon with the rank species within the subgenus Eleocharis subg. Scirpidium
Language Label Description Also known as
English
Eleocharis wolfii (A. Gray) A. Gray ex Britton in H. N. Patterson
Eleocharis wolfii is a taxon with the rank species within the subgenus Eleocharis subg. Scirpidium

    Statements

    taxon/id/Eleocharis wolfii (A. Gray) A. Gray ex Britton
    0 references
    Eleocharis wolfii (A. Gray) A. Gray ex Britton
    Eleocharis wolfii
    (A. Gray) A. Gray ex Britton
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    (A. Gray) A. Gray ex Britton
    éléocharide de Wolf (French)
    Wolf's spikerush (English)
    Wolf’s spike-rush (English)
    1 reference
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York. http://www.efloras.org/volume_page.aspx?volume_id=1023&flora_id=1
    1 reference
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York. http://www.efloras.org/volume_page.aspx?volume_id=1023&flora_id=1
    ephemeral pools
    open grasslands
    oak woodlands
    river terraces
    barrens
    Plants perennial, often forming large mats;
    rhizomes 0.25–0.6 mm thick, internodes 1–4 cm, scales 2 mm.
    Culms sometimes decumbent, in same plant sides variably smooth or with 1 to few acute ridges (often nearly smooth or with 1 ridge on 1 side and several ridges on the other), greatly compressed, usually inrolled when dry, rectangular in cross-section, 10–40 cm × 0.3–1.5 mm, 0.2–0.5 mm thick, firm, margins often sharply acute, margins and often 1 or more ridges minutely serrulate at 20–30X.
    Leaves: distal leaf-sheaths persistent, red proximally, colorless or stramineous or whitish distally, slightly inflated, thickly membranous, apex acute.
    Spikelets ovoid or lanceoloid, 3–9 × 1.5–2.5 mm, apex acute;
    floral scales 15–30, 6 per mm of rachilla, orangebrown or often stramineous or colorless, midrib region stramineous or greenish, ovatelanceolate, (2.2–) 2.7–3.2 × 1.5 mm, midrib prominent, apex acute.
    Flowers: perianth bristles absent;
    anthers 1.1–1.75 mm.
    Tubercles brownish, pyramidal, usually depressed, 0.1–0.15 × 0.2–0.25 mm.