Remirea maritima Aubl.

Beachstar (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Cyperaceae > Remirea

Characteristics

Rhizomes slender, long creeping, branching, rigid. Culms 6-15 cm tall, 1-2 mm thick, 3-angled, smooth, basally clothed with brown sheaths and their fibrous remnants and buried in sand. Leaves 3-15, covering base and lower culm, usually slightly longer than culm; sheath pale brown; leaf blade lanceolate, 4.5-6.5 mm wide, leathery, abaxial surface prominently keeled. Involucral bracts leaflike, longer than inflorescence. Inflorescences terminal, capitate, usually with 2-7 clusters, oblong-ellipsoid to ovoid-oblong, 1-2 × 0.7-1 cm, with many spikelets. Spikelets dense, fusiform-ellipsoid, ca. 5 mm; bractlets glumelike, ovate-lanceolate, ca. 3 mm, with brown lines, 1-veined, apex acute. Basal 3 glumes without a flower; basalmost glume broadly ovate, ca. 2 mm, 2-veined and with brown lines, apex rounded; second glume ovate, ca. 4 mm, 7-veined, apex rounded; third glume slightly longer than second one; fourth glume fleshy, ca. 3 mm, veinless, with brown minute spots, margin involute, apex slender. Stamens 3; anthers ca. 2 mm. Ovary oblong, 3-sided; style short; stigmas 3, slender, ± as long as style. Nutlet blackish brown, sessile, cylindric-ellipsoid, 2-2.5 mm, compressed 3-sided. Fl. and fr. Sep-Dec.
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Rhizomes long, much branched, buried in sand. Culms to 12 cm × 2 mm, smooth. Leaves: sheath apices truncate; blades with keeled midrib, linear-lanceolate, 3–8 cm × 2–6 mm, leathery, margins scabridulous. Inflorescences: bracts 1–6, leaflike; spikes 1–6, densely ovoid. Spikelets ovoid to ellipsoid; rachilla deciduous, articulate at base, internodes 2–2.6 × 1 mm, corky, wings persistent, clasping (enclosing) achene; bract ovate, 2–2.5 mm; prophyll ovate-lanceolate, 1.5 mm; floral scales 2–3, off-white to reddish brown, 5–9-veined, ovate, 3.3–3.6(–4) × 1.3–1.7 mm. Flowers: stamen filaments 2–3.2 mm; anthers linear, 0.9–1.2(–1.6) mm; connective apices reddish, 0.1–0.4 mm, glabrous; styles 0.5–1 mm; stigmas 2 mm, glabrous. Achenes brown, substipitate, oblong to ellipsoid, 1.8–2 × 0.5–0.6 mm, apex acute, papillose.
A glabrous perennial with long slender rhizomes; culms 5-30 cm. long, erect or nearly prostrate, densely leafy; leaves spread-ing, stiff, 2-8 cm. long; bracts 2-6, similar to the leaves; spikelets in a dense head, 1-flowered, brownish, 3-5 mm. long, the inner scale corky and inflated; stamens 3; style usually 3-cleft; achene 2 mm. long, elliptic, obscurely trigo-nous, apiculate, dark brown, lightly papillose.
Strand plant with shoots arising singly or in small clusters from a long rhizome
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.06 - 0.15
Root system rhizome
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OctNovDec
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Environment

Sandy places.
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Soil texture 5-6
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses environmental use medicinal
Edible -
Therapeutic use Diuretics (root), Hypohidrosis (root), Diuretic (unspecified), Astringent (unspecified), Sudorific (unspecified)
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Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

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Images

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Distribution

Remirea maritima world distribution map, present in China, Panama, Thailand, and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:311805-1
WFO ID wfo-0000510137
COL ID 4RRF6
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 636150
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Synonyms

Remirea maritima Miegia maritima