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(Heuffel) Meinshausen

Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 18: 2. 1901.

Basionym: Chordorrhizae Heuffel
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 23.
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Revision as of 17:08, 18 September 2019

Plants not cespitose, short-rhizomatous, long-stoloniferous. Culms brown at base. Leaves: basal sheaths not fibrous; sheath fronts membranous; blades M-shaped in cross section when young, widest more than 1 mm wide, glabrous. Inflorescences capitate or short-ovoid; bracts scalelike, sheathless; spikes 2–7, androgynous, sessile, without prophylls. Proximal pistillate scales with apex obtuse to short-acuminate. Perigynia ascending, strongly veined on both faces, stipitate, oblong-ovate to broadly elliptic, plano-convex to unequally biconvex in cross section, 2–4(–4.5 mm), base rounded, with spongy tissue, margins rounded, apex rounded, abruptly beaked, glabrous; beak 0.3–0.6 mm, less than 1/5 length of body, with abaxial suture, entire or sparsely serrulate, emarginate. Stigmas 2. Achenes biconvex, only slightly smaller than bodies of perigynia; style deciduous.

Distribution

North America, Eurasia.

Discussion

Species 1.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa