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Bulbostylis schoenoides C.B.Clarke

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Cyperaceae > Bulbostylis

Characteristics

Perennial herb, tufted, 0.15-0.40 m high. Leaf blades up to 210 x 0.20-1.43 mm, filiform to linear, glabrous. Culm scapose, ± terete, ridged, ± glabrous, filiform, ± 0.4-0.8 mm in diam. Inflorescence up to 29 x 25 mm, capitate head of ± 4-6 spikelets. Subtending bracts 2-4; blade filiform. Spikelets elliptic, 7-17 x 2.0-4.5 mm. Glumes: fertile narrowly oblong, 3.4-6.7 x 1.9-3.5 mm, keel terminating below apex. Flowering time Aug., Nov., Dec. Nutlet obovate, excluding style base 1.0-1.8 x 0.501.25 mm, 3-angled, golden-yellow, brown or slate-grey, crowned with brown, button-like style base, surface transversely wavy.
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Tufted perennial, up to 400 mm high; densely tufted, with woody rhizome, with sparse pubescence; shoots clothed with persistent, soft, brown leaf sheaths. Flowers: hemispherical heads of 4-6 large, sessile spikelets; glumes dark blackish brown, with apices clearly rounded to emarginate, midvein terminating below apex, margins minutely white-ciliate. Fruit a nutlet, 1.0-1.8 x 0.50-1.25 mm.
Perennial herb, up to 300 mm tall. Leaves filiform. Old leaf bases of previous year prominent. Heads with 3-5 spikelets. Glumes narrowly oblong, 3.4-6.7 x 1.9-3.5 mm, apex rounded to emarginate, white ciliate, bright chestnut-brown.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
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Mature height (meter) 0.3 - 0.4
Root system rhizome
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c4

Environment

Light -
Soil humidity 7-9
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible -
Therapeutic use Asthma (unspecified), Cholera (unspecified), Dysentery (unspecified), Measles (unspecified), Phthisis (unspecified), Sterility(Female) (unspecified), Sore (unspecified), Bronchitis (unspecified), Palsy (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

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Distribution

Bulbostylis schoenoides world distribution map, present in Angola, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, eSwatini, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Conservation status

Bulbostylis schoenoides threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:298287-1
WFO ID wfo-0000342332
COL ID NSHH
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Bulbostylis schoenoides Fimbristylis schoenoides Isolepis schoenoides Abildgaardia erratica subsp. schoenoides
WorldFloraDB 2024