Eriophorum Linnaeus (Q3340)

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Eriophorum is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Scirpeae
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Eriophorum Linnaeus
Eriophorum is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Scirpeae

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    taxon/id/Eriophorum Linnaeus
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    Eriophorum Linnaeus
    Eriophorum
    Linnaeus
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    bog cotton (English)
    cottongrass (English)
    Cotton-grass (English)
    bog-cotton (English)
    linaigrette (English)
    Mostly in cool temperate
    alpine
    and arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere
    Herbs, perennial, cespitose or not, rhizomatous.
    Culms solitary or not, trigonous or terete.
    Leaves basal and cauline;
    cauline leaves sometimes bladeless sheaths;
    blades filiform to flat with filiform tip, to 25 cm × 2.5–4 mm.
    Inflorescences terminal, spikelets solitary, erect or (1–) 2–10 (–30) in subcapitate or subumbellate panicle;
    involucral-bracts 1–several, scalelike or blade-bearing and leaflike throughout.
    Spikelets: scales (10–) 20–200, spirally arranged, each subtending flower, or proximal empty.
    perianth persistent, of (8–) 10–25 hairlike, smooth bristles, or very rarely 6 antrorsely barbed bristles, greatly elongate, essentially straight, usually obscuring most of scales in spikelet, much longer than achene;
    stamens 1–3;
    styles deciduous, linear, 3-fid.
    Achenes trigonous.