Fuirena pumila (Torrey) Sprengel (Q3336)

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Fuirena pumila is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Fuirena
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Fuirena pumila (Torrey) Sprengel
Fuirena pumila is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Fuirena

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    taxon/id/Fuirena pumila (Torrey) Sprengel
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    Fuirena pumila (Torrey) Sprengel
    Fuirena pumila
    (Torrey) Sprengel
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    fuirène nain (French)
    dwarf umbrella sedge (English)
    1 reference
    Newmaster, S.G. & S. Ragupathy. 2005. Flora Ontario - Integrated Botanical Information System (FOIBIS), Phase I. University of Guelph, Canada. http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis/
    moist to wet pond shores
    savannas
    swales
    moist sandy waste places
    0–200 m
    Herbs annual, cespitose, (8–) 20–60 cm.
    Culms erect or spreading, slender, stiff.
    Leaves: sheaths hirsute;
    principal blades linear to lance-linear, 5–12 cm, hirsute-hispid-ciliate, surfaces strigose-hispid or glabrous.
    Inflorescences in solitary terminal clusters or several terminal clusters, less often from proximal 1–2 nodes, principal involucral-bract mostly exceeding compound or cluster.
    Spikelets lanceovoid to cylindric, 5–8 (–12) mm, apex acute;
    fertile scales oblong to obovate, 2.5–3 mm;
    median ribs 3, strong.
    Flowers: perianth bristles extending at least to base of perianth blades, often near to tips, retrorsely barbellate;
    perianth blades long-clawed, mostly ovate, base 3–5-ribbed, apex slenderly acuminate, incurved, awned;
    anthers 1–3, 0.5–0.7 mm.
    Achenes: stipe slender;
    body angles wirelike, faces lustrous, deep brown to redbrown, 1 mm;
    beak slender, stiff, tip papillate.