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Trichophorum Pers.

Harestail bulrush (en), Trichophore (fr)

Genus

Angiosperms > Poales > Cyperaceae

Characteristics

Herbs, perennial. Culms tufted, naked but clothed at base with a few bladeless ligulate leaf sheaths. Leaf blade much reduced. Involucral bract 1, glumelike, suberect, apex mucronate or awned. Inflorescences reduced to a single terminal spikelet, rarely an anthela or capitate with a few spikelets. Spikelets ellipsoid. Glumes pale brown, spirally arranged, membranous, deciduous, all bearing a bisexual flower in axil. Flower bisexual or unisexual. Perianth bristles 6, filiform, silky, usually much elongated after anthesis and overtopping subtending glume. Stamens 2 or 3 or 6. Style base not distinct, slightly thickened, ± persistent. Nutlet obovoid, 3-sided or dorsiventrally compressed, smooth, apex slightly beaked.
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Herbs, perennial, cespitose, rhizomatous or not. Culms trigonous or terete. Leaves basal or subbasal; sheaths bladeless or distal sheaths with blade to 5 mm, not fibrous; ligules present; blades obsolete or elongate, linear, less than 1 cm × 1 mm. Inflorescences terminal; spikelets 1; involucral bracts 1, suberect, scalelike, apex mucronate or awned. Spikelets: scales 3–9, spirally arranged, each subtending flower. Flowers bisexual; perianth of 0–6 bristles, straight, shorter than to about 20 times as long as achene, smooth or scabrous; stamens 3; styles linear, 3-fid, base persistent. Achenes trigonous or plano-convex.
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-10

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Images

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Distribution

Trichophorum world distribution map, present in Afghanistan, Austria, Bulgaria, Belarus, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Switzerland, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Algeria, Ecuador, Spain, Finland, France, Micronesia (Federated States of), Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iceland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Montenegro, Malaysia, Nicaragua, Netherlands, Norway, Nepal, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Thailand, Taiwan, Province of China, Ukraine, United States of America, Uzbekistan, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:331299-2
WFO ID wfo-4000039019
COL ID 8W4C4
BDTFX ID 87345
INPN ID 198614
Wikipedia (EN) Link
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Synonyms

Trichophorum

Lower taxons

Trichophorum alpinum Trichophorum distigmaticum Trichophorum pumilum Trichophorum schansiense Trichophorum clintonii Trichophorum planifolium Trichophorum rigidum Trichophorum subcapitatum Trichophorum mattfeldianum Trichophorum dioicum Trichophorum dolichocarpum Trichophorum uniflorum Trichophorum cespitosum
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