Blysmus Panz. ex Schult.

Bulrush (en), Blysme (fr)

Genus

Angiosperms > Poales > Cyperaceae

Characteristics

Herbs, perennial. Rhizomes creeping. Culms nodose or not, 3-angled or terete, smooth or scabrous. Leaves basal or cauline, ligulate. Basalmost involucral bract leaflike, suberect; bractlets glumelike. Inflorescences spicate with few to many pseudodistichous spikelets, rarely with a lateral branch. Spikelets dark brown, with few bisexual flowers. Glumes imbricate, subdistichous. Perianth bristles 3-6, rarely absent, usually retrorsely scabrous. Stamens 3; connective apex evident beyond anthers. Style deciduous, base not thickened; stigmas 2. Nutlet stipitate, oblong, plano-convex, smooth, apex beaked.
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Hardiness (USDA) 5-10

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Images

Blysmus unspecified picture

Distribution

Blysmus world distribution map, present in Afghanistan, Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Belarus, Switzerland, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Morocco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Nepal, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Sweden, Turks and Caicos Islands, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United States of America, and Uzbekistan

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:331151-2
WFO ID wfo-4000004832
COL ID 8VVM3
BDTFX ID 86004
INPN ID 189921
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Blysmus

Lower taxons

Blysmus compressus Blysmus rufus Blysmus sinocompressus Blysmus mongolicola