Scirpus georgianus R. M. Harper (Q3374)

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Scirpus georgianus is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Scirpus
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Scirpus georgianus R. M. Harper
Scirpus georgianus is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Scirpus

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    taxon/id/Scirpus georgianus R.M. Harper
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    Scirpus georgianus R.M. Harper
    Scirpus georgianus
    R.M. Harper
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    scirpe de Georgie (French)
    Georgia bulrush (English)
    bristleless dark-green bulrush (English)
    1 reference
    Klinkenberg, B. (ed.). 2010+. E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Plants of British Columbia. Lab. for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. http://www.eflora.bc.ca http://www.eflora.bc.ca/
    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/
    1 reference
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York. http://www.efloras.org/volume_page.aspx?volume_id=1023&flora_id=1
    New Zealand
    moist meadows
    marshes
    ditches
    0–600 m
    rhizomes short, tough, fibrous.
    Culms: fertile ones upright or reclining;
    Leaves 6–12 per culm;
    sheaths of proximal leaves green or brownish;
    proximal sheaths and blades with septa few-to-many, usually not conspicuous;
    blades 19–50 cm × 6–13 mm.
    Inflorescences terminal;
    rays ascending or divaricate (often both in the same inflorescence), proximal branches smooth, distal branches scabrous or scabrellous, rays often bearing axillary bulblets;
    bases of involucral-bracts green, margins brown or at least speckled with redbrown, not glutinous.
    Spikelets in clusters of 4–35 (largest cluster with 16 or more), spikelets sessile, ovoid, 2–4 × 1–2 mm;
    scales brown or blackish brown with pale midribs, elliptic, 1–1.8 mm, apex mucronate, mucro 0.1–0.3 mm.
    Flowers: perianth bristles persistent when present, 0–3, slender, straight or curved, much shorter than (rarely to 0.7 times as long as) achene, smooth or rarely with round-tipped, retrorse teeth near apex, enclosed within scales;
    Achenes pale-brown to almost white, elliptic or obovate in outline, plumply trigonous or planoconvex, 0.6–1.2 × 0.4–0.5 mm. 2n = 50, 52, 54.