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Schoenus nigricans
L.
Family:
Cyperaceae
Black Bog-Rush
[
Schoenus nigricans var. plurisquamatus
Kük.]
Max Licher
FNA
Resources
Gordon C. Tucker in Flora of North America (vol. 23)
Rhizomes short, oblique. Culms hollow, glabrous. Leaves: basal sheaths blackish, conspicuously wider than leaf blades; blades 10-40 cm × 0.8-2 mm, margins involute, smooth or scabridulous. Inflorescences loosely ovoid, 1-2 cm; bracts 1 or 2, oblique to erect, green to dark brown or black, 1-6 cm × 1-1.5 mm. Spikelets (1-)10-25, flattened, oblong-ellipsoid; rachilla wingless, ± deciduous at maturity; basal scales 2-3, sterile; floral scales 3-8, laterally veinless, medially 1-veined, oblong, apex acute, not mucronate, distally scabrellate. Flowers: perianth bristles 0-6, smooth or scabrellate; anthers linear, connective apices subulate, conspicuous; styles 0.6-1 mm; stigmas 0.5 mm. Achenes whitish, ovoid to ellipsoid, 1-1.5 × 0.9-1.2 mm, glossy, apex obtuse, smooth or barely reticulate. 2n = 54, 55.
Fruiting summer. Damp, calcareous or alkaline grasslands; 0-2000 m; Calif., Fla., Nev., Tex.; Mexico; Eurasia; Africa; Australia.
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