Schoenoplectus litoralis (Schrad.) Palla

Scirpe du littoral (fr), Souchet du littoral (fr), Schénoplecte du littoral (fr), Scirpe littoral (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Cyperaceae > Schoenoplectus

Characteristics

Rhizomes short; stolons long creeping, slender. Culms erect, 50-120 cm tall, 3-10 mm thick, 3-angled to obtusely 3-angled just below inflorescence, glaucous. Leaves reduced to a bladeless or a shortly laminate sheath. Involucral bract 1, simulating a continuation of culm, 2-5(-10) cm, erect, rigid. Inflorescence a pseudolateral simple or compound anthela, 4-6 cm, with few to many spikelets; rays slender, smooth. Spikelets solitary, reddish brown, ovoid to oblong-ovoid, 6-12 × 1.5-3 mm, terete, densely many flowered, apex ± acute. Glumes broadly elliptic, 3.5-4 × ca. 2 mm, membranous, margin broadly white hyaline and apically minutely ciliolate, apex obtuse to ± notched and with a prominent green vein excurrent into a short mucro. Perianth bristles (3 or)4(or 5), rust-colored, ligulate-spatulate, ± as long as nutlet, antrorsely scabrous, apically plumosely fringed. Stamens (2 or)3; anthers 1.5-2 mm; connective apex with a fimbriate appendage. Stigmas 3. Nutlet dark reddish brown to blackish, broadly obovoid, ca. 2 × 1.3 mm, biconvex, smooth. Fl. and fr. Jul-Sep. 2n = 42, 78, 80, 84.
Life form perennial
Growth form graminoid
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination anemogamy
Spread anemochory
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.5 - 1.2
Root system creeping-root rhizome
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
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Fruiting months
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AprMayJun
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Light 4-9
Soil humidity 7-9
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 7-12

Usage

Uses environmental use food material
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) 22
Germination luminosity -
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Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Productivity -

Images

Schoenoplectus litoralis unspecified picture

Distribution

Schoenoplectus litoralis world distribution map, present in Afghanistan, Albania, Andorra, Australia, Austria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Congo, Comoros, Djibouti, Algeria, Spain, France, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Morocco, Madagascar, Montenegro, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Turks and Caicos Islands, Turkmenistan, Tunisia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Yemen, and South Africa

Conservation status

Schoenoplectus litoralis threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1019166-1
WFO ID wfo-0000527542
COL ID 6XWF4
BDTFX ID 61405
INPN ID 121550
Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Malacochaete litoralis Scirpus arrhenopogon Scirpus tabernaemontani Scirpus plumosus Schoenoplectus litoralis Pterolepis litoralis Scirpus litoralis Heleogiton litorale Scirpus litoralis var. philippii Scirpus littoralis subsp. philippii Scirpus litoralis var. foliosus Eleogiton litoralis

Lower taxons

Schoenoplectus litoralis subsp. kasachstanicus Schoenoplectus litoralis subsp. litoralis Schoenoplectus litoralis subsp. thermalis