Schoenoplectiella mucronata

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Schoenoplectiella mucronata
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Walini, Schoenoplectiella mucronata
from Puncak, Bogor Regency, West Java
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Cyperaceae
Genus: Schoenoplectiella
Species:
S. mucronata
Binomial name
Schoenoplectiella mucronata
(L.) J.Jung & H.K.Choi
Synonyms [1]
  • Scirpus mucronatusL.
  • Schoenoplectus mucronatus(L.) Palla ex A.Kern.

Schoenoplectiella mucronata is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family [1] known by the common names bog bulrush, [2] rough-seed bulrush, [3] and ricefield bulrush. [4]

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Distribution

It is native to Eurasia, Africa and Australia. [5]

Habitat and description

It grows in moist and wet terrestrial habitat, and in shallow water. It is a perennial herb growing from a short, hard rhizome. The erect, three-angled stems grow in dense clumps and can reach a metre tall. The leaves take the form of sheaths wrapped around the base of stem, but they generally do not have blades. The inflorescence is a headlike cluster of cone-shaped spikelets accompanied by an angled, stiff bract which may look like a continuation of the stem. [6] : 228–30 

It is a weed of rice fields in California. [4] [7]

Taxonomy

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Forming a dense thickets along ditches

As of July 2020, Plants of the World Online lists 35 taxonomic synonyms of Schoenoplectiella mucronata, [5] and the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria lists two. [1] It was first described as Scirpus mucronatus in 1753 by Carl Linnaeus. [1] [8] In 1889 Eduard Palla transferred it to the genus, Schoenoplectus , [9] and Schoenoplectus mucronatus was the accepted name until 2010 when it was transferred to the genus, Schoenoplectiella by Jongduk Jung and Hong-Kuen Choi. [1] [6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Schoenoplectiella mucronata". Australian Plant Name Index, IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
  2. ↑ NRCS. "Schoenoplectiella mucronata". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  3. ↑ "ROUGH SEED / BOG BULRUSH (Schoenoplectus mucronatus) Seeds 'Bush Tucker Plant'". Edible Oz. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  4. 1 2 UC Davis IPM
  5. 1 2 "Schoenoplectiella mucronata (L.) J.Jung & H.K.Choi". Plants of the World Online . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  6. 1 2 Jung, Jongduk; Choi, Hong-Keun (2010). "Systematic Rearrangement of Korean Scirpus L. s.l. (Cyperaceae) as Inferred from Nuclear ITS and Chloroplast rbcL Sequences" (PDF). Journal of Plant Biology. 53 (3): 230. doi:10.1007/s12374-010-9109-8. ISSN   1226-9239. S2CID   37342932. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 July 2020.
  7. ↑ Flora of North America
  8. ↑ Linnaeus, C. (1753). "Scirpus". Species Plantarum. 1: 50.
  9. ↑ Kerner, A. (1889). "Schedae ad Floram Exsiccatam Austro-Hungaricam". 5: 91.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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