Kobresia royleana (Nees) Nees ex Boeckeler

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Cyperaceae > Kobresia

Characteristics

Rhizomes short, thick, woody. Basal sheaths prominent, brown or reddish brown, dull, not fibrillose, retaining dried leaf blades. Culms densely tufted, rigid, acutely trigonous, or subterete in lower part, (2-)6-75 cm tall, 1-2.5 mm in diam. Leaves basal, shorter than culms; blade flat, 2-4 mm wide, midrib distinct abaxially. Inflorescence a dense or slightly loose panicle, brown, 1-3.5 × 0.6-1.2 cm; inflorescence branches simple, obliquely ascending, decreasing in length toward apex; lowest involucral bract glumelike, apex aristate. Terminal spikelets of inflorescence branches male, lower ones bisexual or unisexual. Bisexual spikelets with 1 basal female flower and 2 or 3(-6) distal male flowers. Glumes brown, with green midvein, ovate-oblong, 2.6-5.1 × 1.7-3.5 mm, margin hyaline or not, apex acute or aristate. Prophylls pale brown, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 2.7-5 mm, membranous, 2-keeled, keels scabrid, margins open to base. Nutlets narrowly oblong, trigonous, 1.7-4 mm, beak to 1 mm, very shortly stipitate. Sterile rachilla sometimes present in female spikelets, to 1/3 as long as nutlet. Stigmas 3. Fl. and fr. May-Sep.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.06 - 0.55
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Distribution

Kobresia royleana world distribution map, present in China and Pakistan

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:309742-1
WFO ID wfo-0000453391
COL ID 3RB48
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Synonyms

Elyna paniculata Kobresia stenocarpa Kobresia royleana Kobresia royleana subsp. royleana Kobresia stenocarpa var. royleana Kobresia royleana var. kokanica Kobresia royleana var. paniculata