Ficinia tristachya (Vahl) Nees

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Cyperaceae > Ficinia

Characteristics

Perennial herb, tufted, up to 0.09 m high. Leaves with bases breaking up into soft whitish matted fibres; upper sheath margins ± conspicuous, scarious, often much lacerated, white; blades filiform, 0.3 mm wide. Culm terete, 0.5 mm in diam. Inflorescence of 3-few sessile spikelets. Subtending bracts 2, lower erect, base hardly broadened; blade leaf-like, longer than inflorescence, upper spreading or reflexed, much shorter. Spikelets ovate, 5 x 3 mm. Glumes boat-shaped, 2.5 mm long, keel non-excurrent or excurrent into minute point. Flowering time Aug., Oct.-May. Nutlet elliptic, 1.8 mm long, yellowish brown, shining, surface minutely reticulate. Gynophore relatively large, margins lobed.
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Stiff-leaved perennial to 25 cm. Spikelets brown.
Tufted perennial to 20 cm. Spikelets brown.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
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Mature height (meter) 0.09
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Soil humidity 1-3
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Distribution

Ficinia tristachya world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1037214-2
WFO ID wfo-0000418472
COL ID 6HVS9
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Synonyms

Ficinia subacuta Ficinia tristachya Melancranis tribracteata Melancranis tristachya Ficinia pseudoschoenus Ficinia bergiana Ficinia tribracteata Scirpus pseudoschoenus Isolepis pseudoschoenus Isolepis tristachya Scirpus tristachyos Ficinia filiformis var. bergiana Ficinia tristachya var. bibracteata Ficinia tristachya var. glaucescens Ficinia tristachya var. tribracteata