Fuirena ecklonii Nees

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Cyperaceae > Fuirena

Characteristics

Perennial herb, long-rhizomatous, 0.38-0.75 m high. Leaf blades 3-6 mm wide, flat or V-shaped. Culm nodose, 3-angled, 1.2-1.5 mm in diam. below inflorescence (much of culm concealed by wide sheathing leaf bases. Inflorescence an apical cluster of up to ± 10 sessile or shortly stalked spikelets. Subtending bracts spreading or reflexed. Spikelets ± squarrose, elliptical, 7-13 mm long. Glumes: fertile lanceolate, ± 4 mm long, keel excurrent into 1-2 mm long, recurved awn. Perianth: outer whorl absent 0; inner whorl of scales differentiated into stalk, blade with toothed margins and arista. Flowering time Dec.-Feb. Nutlet ± sessile, obovate, white, surface smooth; pericarp epidermal cells very small.
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Leaves with some hair on them, at least underneath; petals nearly as long as the nut, elliptic, toothed or almost lobate, claw hairy; nut nearly sessile, obovoid, smooth, white, beak small, conic.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.38 - 0.75
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Distribution

Fuirena ecklonii world distribution map, present in South Africa

Conservation status

Fuirena ecklonii threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:308468-1
WFO ID wfo-0000425998
COL ID 6K2BP
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Synonyms

Fuirena ecklonii