Scirpus Linnaeus (Q3368)

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

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    taxon/id/Scirpus Linnaeus
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    Scirpus Linnaeus
    Scirpus
    Linnaeus
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    bulrush (English)
    Bulrush (English)
    scirpe (English)
    North America
    Mexico
    Eurasia
    Australia
    Pacific Islands
    Herbs, perennial, cespitose or not, rhizomatous or not.
    Culms solitary or not, ± trigonous.
    Leaves basal and cauline or all cauline;
    sheaths not fibrous;
    ligules present, rarely absent;
    blades flat or V-shaped in cross-section, prominently keeled abaxially.
    Inflorescences terminal, sometimes also axillary in 1–3 distal leaves, subumbellate or corymbose-paniculate;
    spikelets 50–500;
    involucral-bracts usually 3, leaflike.
    Spikelets less than 3.5 (–5) mm diam.;
    scales 10–50, spirally arranged, each scale subtending flower, glabrous.
    Flowers bisexual;
    perianth of (0–) 3–6 bristles;
    bristles straight or strongly curled, smooth, or variously toothed, or barbed, shorter to much longer than achene, not obscuring scales in fruit;
    stamens 1–3;
    styles (2–) 3-fid, linear, base persistent.