Bulbostylis scleropus C.B.Clarke

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Cyperaceae > Bulbostylis

Characteristics

Robust perennial, up to 0.5 m high, tufted; culms clothed with persistent hard, coarse, dark brown to black leaf sheaths, with sparse pubescence. Flowers: hemispherical heads of 4-6 large, sessile spikelets; glumes dark greyish brown or reddish black, with apices becoming lacerated, fragments appearing acute, termination of midvein below glume apex only apparent in young glumes, margins not white-ciliate. Fruit transversely rugose.
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Perennial herb, up to 300 mm tall. Stems tufted, enclosed by harsh chestnut-black, striate leaf sheaths. Leaves often two-thirds the length of primary peduncle, narrowly linear. Spikelets 6-10, crowded in 1 head. Glumes reddish brown.
Perennial herb, tufted, 0.12-0.50 m high. Description as for B. schoenoides but leaf bases hard, dark brown to black, persistent; blades coarser and wider. Flowering time Sept., Nov., Dec.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.3 - 0.5
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Environment

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Soil humidity 7-9
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Usage

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Cultivation

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Distribution

Bulbostylis scleropus world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:298289-1
WFO ID wfo-0000342338
COL ID NSHM
BDTFX ID -
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Synonyms

Abildgaardia scleropus Bulbostylis scleropus Scirpus scleropus Bulbostylis grandibulbosa