Diagnostic ³

"Stoloniferous herbs, stolen covered with brown scales. Leaves to 3.5 x 0.5 cm. Umbels terminal, rays usually 9; bracts 4-8, 5-25 cm long; spikelets one flowered, deciduous above the 2 basal glumes, leaving a knob; basal glumes 1 and 0.75 mm, distichous, nut bearing glumes 3 mm, one nerved; stamens 3; ovary 1 mm, ovoid. Nut 2 mm, brown."

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Marco Schmidt, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), uploaded by Marco Schmidt
2. (c) Jeremy Barker, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Jeremy Barker
3. (c) India Biodiversity Portal, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://eol.org/data_objects/26332255

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• African Plants - a photo guide
• Atlas of Living Australia
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Flora of North America (beta)
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• NatureServe Explorer 2.0
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• USDA PLANTS database
• World Flora Online
• 日本のレッドデータ検索システム
• 植物和名−学名インデックス YList

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