Eleocharis suksdorfiana Beauverd (Q3333)

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Eleocharis suksdorfiana is a taxon with the rank species within the subgenus Eleocharis subg. Zinserlingia
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Eleocharis suksdorfiana Beauverd
Eleocharis suksdorfiana is a taxon with the rank species within the subgenus Eleocharis subg. Zinserlingia

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    taxon/id/Eleocharis suksdorfiana Beauverd
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    Eleocharis suksdorfiana Beauverd
    Eleocharis suksdorfiana
    Beauverd
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Eleocharis suksdorfiana
    éléocharide de Suksdorf (French)
    Suksdorf's spikerush (English)
    1 reference
    Klinkenberg, B. (ed.). 2010+. E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Plants of British Columbia. Lab. for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. http://www.eflora.bc.ca http://www.eflora.bc.ca/
    1 reference
    Packer, J.G. & A.J. Gould. 2017.Vascular Plants of Alberta. Part 1: Ferns, Fern Allies, Gymnospermes, and Monocots. University of Calgary Press, Calgary.
    (0–)1100–3300 m
    rhizomes 0.5–1.5 mm thick, scales persistent, 5–10 mm, thinly membranous, not fibrous;
    resting buds absent (non-resting buds on rhizome apex ellipsoid, 10 × 2–5 mm);
    caudices present, hard, 2 mm thick.
    Culms erect, not spirally twisted, not contracted near spikelet, when dry usually with several blunt to acute ridges and sulcate, subterete to slightly compressed, to 2 times as wide as thick, (5–) 10–40 cm × 0.5–1.2 mm, firm to hard, finely many-ridged at 10–20X;
    Leaves: distal leaf-sheaths stramineous to brown or reddish proximally, green to stramineous distally, subtruncate to obtuse, membranous to papery;
    apex brown to red.
    Spikelets 5–10 × 2–4 mm;
    proximal scale usually empty, 3–5 mm, usually 1/2 or more as long as spikelet;
    floral scales 8–12 per spikelet, lanceolate (to ovate), 3.5–5 × 2–2.5 mm.
    Flowers: perianth bristles 6, equal, the longest equaling achene to exceeding tubercle, very slender, spinules dense;
    anthers 1.6–3.5 mm.
    Achenes medium brown to gray or dark-brown, equilaterally trigonous to compressed trigonous, rarely some biconvex, 2–2.7 × 0.7–1.3 mm, apex tapered to a distinct stramineous beak 0.2–0.9 × 0.3–0.6 mm.
    Tubercles 0.4–0.5 × 0.3–0.5 mm.