Bolboschoenus glaucus (Lamarck) S. G. Smith (Q3391)

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Bolboschoenus glaucus is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Bolboschoenus
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Bolboschoenus glaucus (Lamarck) S. G. Smith
Bolboschoenus glaucus is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Bolboschoenus

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    taxon/id/Bolboschoenus glaucus (Lamarck) S. G. Smith
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    Bolboschoenus glaucus (Lamarck) S. G. Smith
    Bolboschoenus glaucus
    (Lamarck) S. G. Smith
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Bolboschoenus glaucus
    scirpe glauque (French)
    bulbous bulrush (English)
    tuberous 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/
    Eurasia
    Africa
    shores
    marshes
    rice fields
    fresh to brackish shores
    Culms to 150 cm × 1.5–3 mm.
    Leaves: sheaths reaching ± to middle of culm, fronts truncate to convex, membranous at mouth, veins diverging proximal to apex leaving acutely triangular veinless area;
    widest blade 2–6 mm wide.
    Inflorescences subumbellate, all or most spikelets solitary or in clusters of 2–7 on 3–11 rays, rays not exceeding 9 cm;
    involucral-bracts that surpass inflorescence 1–3, widest bract 2–3 mm wide.
    Spikelets 3–30, ovoid to narrowly lanceoloid or cylindric, 10–40 × 3–5 mm;
    scales loosely imbricate, orangebrown to stramineous, 5–6 × 2.5 mm, membranous, transparent, apex 2-fid 0.5–1 mm deep, awns slender, 1–2 × 0.25 mm at base.
    Flowers: perianth bristles mostly tightly attached to shed achene, medium brown, much shorter than to equaling achene;
    anthers yellow, 3 mm;
    styles (2–) 3-fid.
    Achenes pale-brown to blackish brown, cuneate-obovate, clearly to obscurely trigonous or some thickly biconvex, angles rounded, 2.5–3.3 × 1.3–2.3 mm, apex rounded, beak minute, surface glossy, exocarp cells not evident at 20X, in cross-section 1/3 of mesocarp thickness, cells isodiametric;
    2n = 110 (Czech Republic).