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Bulbostylis oritrephes C.B.Clarke

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Cyperaceae > Bulbostylis

Characteristics

Perennial herb with annual aerial parts, 0.05-0.45 m high. Leaf blades 4-200 x 0.2 (-0.5) mm, capillary (to filiform. Culm scapose, ± terete, filiform, ± 0.4 mm in diam. Inflorescence up to 27 x 24 mm, 1 head of 2-5 sessile or stalked spikelets. Subtending bracts 2-4; blades capillary (to filiform), scabrid. Spikelets ovate-oblong becoming lanceolate oblong in age, 4-12 x 1.5-3.0 mm. Glumes: fertile boat-shaped, ovate, 2.4-3.6 x 2-3 mm, keel non-excurrent. Flowering time Sept.-Apr. Nutlet obovate to oblanceolate, excluding style base 0.9-1.3 mm, 3-angled, slate-grey, crowned with persistent, brown, button-like style base, surface transversely wavy.
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Perennial herb, up to 300 mm high; culm bases swollen and persistent, arise close together so that an absolutely characteristic linear series of swollen bases is produced. Leaf blades mostly reduced to apiculate projections from sheath mouth, sometimes uppermost sheath of shoot with blade better developed. Flowers: spikelets sessile; glumes dark chestnut-red to black, with midvein terminating in apex or excurrent into a minute mucro, 2.4-3.6 mm long; margins densely white-ciliate; Sep.-Apr. Fruit a nutlet, 0.9-1.3 x 0.6-1.0 mm.
Perennial herb, up to 300 mm tall. Culm base swollen and persistent. Culms arising close together so that an absolutely characteristic linear series of swollen bases is produced. Spikelets sessile. Glumes dark brown.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.3
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Soil humidity 1-3
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Bulbostylis oritrephes world distribution map, present in Angola, Burkina Faso, Congo, Gabon, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan, Sierra Leone, eSwatini, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:298251-1
WFO ID wfo-0000342279
COL ID NSFX
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Synonyms

Abildgaardia oritrephes Bulbostylis oritrephes Fimbristylis oritrephes Bulbostylis trichobasis var. leptocaulis Bulbostylis trichobasis var. uniseriata Bulbostylis oritrephes var. major Bulbostylis trichobasis var. caespitosa

Lower taxons

Bulbostylis oritrephes subsp. oritrephes Bulbostylis oritrephes subsp. australis
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