Amphiscirpus Oteng-Yeboah (Q3338)
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Amphiscirpus is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Scirpeae
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Amphiscirpus Oteng-Yeboah
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Amphiscirpus is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Scirpeae
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taxon/id/Amphiscirpus Oteng-Yeboah
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Amphiscirpus Oteng-Yeboah
Amphiscirpus
Oteng-Yeboah
FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
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Herbs, perennial, internally mostly solid, without evident air cavities, cespitose or not, rhizomatous.
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Culms solitary or not, ± terete, tough, wiry.
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sheaths often disintegrating into fibers;
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blades strongly C-shaped in cross-section to subcylindric, tough, wiry.
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Inflorescences terminal, often pseudolateral, capitate;
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spikelets 1–6 (–10);
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involucral-bracts 1–3, spreading or erect, leaflike.
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Spikelets 5–20 × 3–5 mm;
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scales 30–60, spirally arranged, each subtending flower, smooth, glabrous, margins ciliolate.
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Flowers bisexual;
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perianth of 1–6 bristles, straight, not longer than achene, retrorsely spinulose;
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styles deciduous, linear, 2-fid.
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Achenes planoconvex or unequally biconvex.
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