Schoenoplectus torreyi (Olney) Palla (Q3416)

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Schoenoplectus torreyi is a taxon with the rank species within the section Schoenoplectus sect. Malacogeton
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Schoenoplectus torreyi (Olney) Palla
Schoenoplectus torreyi is a taxon with the rank species within the section Schoenoplectus sect. Malacogeton

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    taxon/id/Schoenoplectus torreyi (Olney) Palla
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    Schoenoplectus torreyi (Olney) Palla
    Schoenoplectus torreyi
    (Olney) Palla
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Schoenoplectus torreyi
    scirpe de Torrey (French)
    Torrey's bulrush (English)
    Torrey's three-square bulrush (English)
    Torrey’s three-square bulrush (English)
    Torrey’s bulrush (English)
    scirpe de Torrey (English)
    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
    Marie-Victorin, Fr. 1995. Flore laurentienne. 3e éd. Mise à jour et annotée par L. Brouillet, S.G. Hay, I. Goulet, M. Blondeau, J. Cayouette et J. Labrecque. Gaétan Morin éditeur. 1093 pp.
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    Hinds, H.R. 2000. Flora of New Brunswick : a manual for the identification of the vascular plants of New Brunswick. 2nd edition. Biology Department, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. 699 pp.
    emergent
    fresh ponds
    marshes
    fluctuating water levels
    Plants mat-forming;
    rhizomes 1–3 mm diam.
    Culms sharply trigonous, sides concave distally, 0.4–1.5 m × 1.5–5 mm.
    Leaves 4–7, nearly equaling culm;
    blades 3–6, erect, the distal mostly longer than sheath, 1–2 mm, wide, proximally thickly V-shaped central region trigonous-channeled to laterally flattened, apically asymmetically laterally flattened-trigonous;
    apex often markedly eccentric, glabrous, smooth or angles papillose.
    Inflorescences capitate or 1 spikelet;
    proximal bract erect, resembling leaf-blade, 3–20 cm.
    Spikelets 1–4, 7–18 × 3–5 mm;
    scales straw-colored to orangebrown or central region greenish, ovatelanceolate, 4–5 × 2.5 mm, margins entire, smooth or awn sparsely spinulose, sometimes distally ciliolate at 40X, apex acute, mucronate, mucro 0.2–0.5 mm.
    anthers 2–3 mm;
    Achenes brown, compressed trigonous, ovoid to obovoid, 3.5–4.5 × 1.7–2 mm;
    beak 0.5–1 mm. 2n = 70.