Eriophorum angustifolium Honckeny (Q3344)

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Eriophorum angustifolium is a taxon with the rank species within the subgenus Eriophorum subg. Phylanthela
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Eriophorum angustifolium Honckeny
Eriophorum angustifolium is a taxon with the rank species within the subgenus Eriophorum subg. Phylanthela

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    taxon/id/Eriophorum angustifolium Honckeny
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    Eriophorum angustifolium Honckeny
    Eriophorum angustifolium
    Honckeny
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Eriophorum angustifolium
    narrow-leaved cottongrass (English)
    tall cottongrass (English)
    thin-scale cottongrass (English)
    common cottongrass (English)
    many-spiked cottongrass (English)
    linaigrette à feuilles étroites (French)
    n Eurasia
    Plants colonial from long-creeping rhizomes.
    Culms to 100 cm × (0.8–) 1–1.2 mm distally.
    Leaves: blades flat, tip trigonous, channeled in cross-section, to 40 cm × 1.5–6 (–8) mm;
    distal leaf-blade much longer than sheath.
    Inflorescences: blade-bearing involucral-bracts 1–3, proximally blade, often sheath black, leaflike, longest 1–12 cm.
    Spikelets (1–) 2–10, in subumbels, patent or pendent, ovoid, 10–20 mm in flower, 20–50 mm in fruit;
    peduncles 5–60 mm, smooth or scabrous;
    scales lanceolate or ovate, 5–10 mm, with prominent midrib fading proximal to tip, apex ± acute;
    Flowers: perianth bristles 10 or more, white or pale-yellow brown, 15–30 mm, smooth;
    anthers 2–5 mm.
    Achenes black, oblanceoloid, 2–5 mm.