Schoenus nanus

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Schoenus nanus
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Cyperaceae
Genus: Schoenus
Species:
S. nanus
Binomial name
Schoenus nanus
(Nees ex Lehm.) Benth.
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Schoenus nanus

Schoenus nanus is a species of sedge (family Cyperaceae) [1] endemic to Australia, and found in Western Australia, South Australia and Victoria. [2] [3] It was first described in 1844 by Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck as Chaetospora nana, [1] [4] but in 1878 was transferred by George Bentham to the genus, Schoenus . [5]

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In Victoria, this species is listed as "endangered". [6]

Description

Bentham [5] describes the plant as follows:

Dwarf and densely tufted but perhaps annual. Stems ¾ to 1½ in. high. Leaves radical, filiform, shorter than the stem. Spikelets terminal, erect, 2 to 4 together, sessile or very shortly pedicellate between 2 involucral bracts, 1 often longer than the inflorescence. Spikelets narrow-lanceolate, flattened, 3 to 3½ lines long, with 4 to 5 flowers. Outer glumes gradually shorter, but usually only the lowest one empty. Hypogynous bristles 6, shorter than the nut or 1 or 2 longer, very shortly ciliate, not plumose. Stamens 3. Nut obovoid-globular, the ribs scarcely prominent, obtuse, tubercular-rugose.

A more recent description is given by Karen Wilson in 1994. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Schoenus nanus". Australian Plant Name Index, IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
  2. ↑ "Schoenus nanus (Nees ex Lehm.) Benth. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  3. ↑ "Australasian Virtual Herbarium: Schoenus nanus". avh.ala.org.au. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  4. ↑ Lehmann, Johann Georg Christian, 1792-1860 (1844), Novarum et minus cognitarum stirpium pugillus I-X, addita enumeratione plantarum omnium in his pugillis descriptarum (in Latin), vol. 8, [Typis J.A. Meissneri] (published 1857), p. 53, doi:10.5962/BHL.TITLE.45011, LCCN   10009939, OCLC   1069431, OL   7018324M, Wikidata   Q51512271 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. 1 2 Bentham, G. (1878). Flora Australiensis. Vol. 7. p. 364.
  6. ↑ "Flora of Victoria".
  7. ↑ Wilson, K.L. (1994). Cyperaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., ‍Flora of Victoria Vol. 2, Ferns and Allied Plants, Conifers and Monocotyledons‍, pp. 238–356. Inkata Press, Melbourne. ISBN   978-0-909605-76-6
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