Bulbostylis warei

(Torrey) C. B. Clarke

Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew, addit. ser. 8: 26. 1908.

IllustratedEndemic
Basionym: Isolepis warei Torrey Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York 3: 354. 1836
Synonyms: Stenophyllus warei (Torrey) Britton
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 23. Treatment on page 132. Mentioned on page 130.

Herbs, perennial, densely cespitose, scapose. Culms (10–)15–40(–50) cm. Leaves 1/2 length of culms; sheaths brown to red-brown, glabrous, or scabrid along ribs; blades narrowly linear, 0.7–1 mm wide, flat or involute, glabrous or scabrid along ribs, margins distally scabrid. Inflorescences: scapes 5, erect to ascending, terete, many ribbed, 1–2 mm thick, stiff; spikelets in dense globose to hemispheric, involucrate heads, 1–2 cm wide; longer involucral bracts with setaceous blades usually exceeding inflorescence, basally dilating to broad pectinatefimbriate sheaths. Spikelets pale brown or redbrown, ovoid, somewhat flattened, 4–5 mm; fertile scales ovate, keeled, 4–5 mm, apex acute, puberulent, midrib included or excurrent as mucro. Flowers: stamens 3; anthers linear, 3 mm. Achenes white or yellowish, broadly trigonous-obovoid, 3-lobed, 1 mm, each lobe carinate, biconvex, apex retuse, surface coarsely, transversely rugose; tubercle a minute, dark button. 2n = 30.


Phenology: Fruiting summer–fall.
Habitat: White and yellow sandhills mostly in open evergreen oak pine, or deciduous scrub oak pine forest or sandy wasteland therein
Elevation: 0–200 m

Distribution

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Ala., Fla., Ga., N.C., S.C.

Discussion

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... more about "Bulbostylis warei"
Robert Kral +
(Torrey) C. B. Clarke +
Isolepis warei +
Ala. +, Fla. +, Ga. +, N.C. +  and S.C. +
0–200 m +
White and yellow sandhills mostly in open evergreen oak pine, or deciduous scrub oak pine forest or sandy wasteland therein +
Fruiting summer–fall. +
Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew, addit. ser. +
Illustrated +  and Endemic +
Stenophyllus warei +
Bulbostylis warei +
Bulbostylis +
species +