Needle marsh moss ( Latin: Eleocharis acicularis ) is a species of herbaceous plants of the genus Marshwort ( Eleocharis ) of the sedge family ( Cyperaceae ).
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Content
- 1 Description
- 2 notes
- 3 Literature
- 4 References
Description
The stems are numerous, crowded, straight and thin, furrowed, almost 4-faced, 3-12 cm tall and ¼ — ⅓ mm thick, with brownish or reddish sheaths at the base. Rhizome creeping, filiform, about ⅓ mm thick.
Floral spikelet oblong-ovate, 2-4 mm long and 1-1.5 mm wide. The bracts are dark or light brown, on the back with a green stripe, ovate, short-pointed or blunt, about 2 mm long and 1-1.5 mm wide; the lowest of them covers the base of the spikelet. Near-color setae 3-4, easily falling off. Stigma 3; nuts are obovate, obtuse 3-sided, 1 mm long and 0.5 mm wide, with slightly prominent ribs on planes and with very thin transverse stripes. The appendage is very short, many times shorter than a nut.
Notes
- ↑ For the conventionality of indicating the class of monocotyledons as a superior taxon for the plant group described in this article, see the APG Systems section of the Monocotyledonous article .
Literature
- Krylov P.N. 1518. Heleocharis acicularis // Flora of Altai and Tomsk Province: A Guide to the Determination of Plants in Western Siberia: in 7 volumes - Tomsk: Tipo-lit. Sib. t-va oven. Cases, 1912. - T. 6: Typhaceae — Cyperaceae. - S. 1421-1422. - [2], 1253-1534 p.
Links
- Needle swamp : information on a taxon in the Plantarium project (a identifier of plants and an illustrated atlas of species). (Retrieved April 15, 2017)