Cyperaceae taxon details
Scleria jiangchengensis Y.Y.Qian
1681716 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1681716)
accepted
Species
terrestrial
Not documented
Description Perennials, stoloniferous. Rhizomes woody, covered with brown scales. Culms laxly tufted to scattered, 70-110 cm tall, 3-4...
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 19(3): 241. 1999 to Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin...
Description Perennials, stoloniferous. Rhizomes woody, covered with brown scales. Culms laxly tufted to scattered, 70-110 cm tall, 3-4 mm wide, 3-angled, slightly puberulent. Sheath brown to greenish brown at middle part of culm, 1-6 cm, papery, puberulent, wings 1-3 mm wide; contraligules nearly semicircular, puberulent, barbate; leaf blade linear, to 35 cm × 3-8 mm, both surfaces pubescent. Involucral bracts leaflike, sheathing; bractlets setaceous, puberulent, base auriculate. Inflorescences paniculate, with 2-4 lateral branches; branches 2-7 × 1.5-5 cm, slightly distant. Spikelets 1 or 2 in a cluster, greenish purple to dark purple, 3.5-4.5 mm, unisexual. Male spikelets narrowly ovoid; basal glumes 1.5-3.3 mm, thickly membranous; apical glumes thinner and paler. Female spikelets usually at basal part of branch, narrowly ovoid; glumes 5; basal 2 glumes ovate, not keeled; apical 3 glumes ovate to ovate-lanceolate, keeled, apex awned. Male flowers: stamens 3. Female flowers: stigmas 3. Disk yellowish white, slightly narrower than nutlet, deeply 3-lobed, margins partly reflexed. Nutlet white, spherical, 2.5-2.8 mm in diam., 3-sided, reticulate, puberulent, apex tipped. [details]
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 19(3): 241. 1999 to Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin...
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 19(3): 241. 1999 to Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 19: 241 (1999), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be found in [details]
Cyperaceae Working Group. (2025). [see How to cite]. Global Cyperaceae Database. Scleria jiangchengensis Y.Y.Qian. Accessed at: https://cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1681716 on 2025-09-11
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Plants of the World Online (POWO). , available online at https://powo.science.kew.org/ [details]
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Li, B. Z.; Zhang, S. R. (2024). An updated species checklist and taxonomic synopsis of Cyperaceae in China. <em>Biodiversity Science.</em> 32(7): 24106., available online at https://doi.org/10.17520/biods.2024106 [details] Available for editors 
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Description Perennials, stoloniferous. Rhizomes woody, covered with brown scales. Culms laxly tufted to scattered, 70-110 cm tall, 3-4 mm wide, 3-angled, slightly puberulent. Sheath brown to greenish brown at middle part of culm, 1-6 cm, papery, puberulent, wings 1-3 mm wide; contraligules nearly semicircular, puberulent, barbate; leaf blade linear, to 35 cm × 3-8 mm, both surfaces pubescent. Involucral bracts leaflike, sheathing; bractlets setaceous, puberulent, base auriculate. Inflorescences paniculate, with 2-4 lateral branches; branches 2-7 × 1.5-5 cm, slightly distant. Spikelets 1 or 2 in a cluster, greenish purple to dark purple, 3.5-4.5 mm, unisexual. Male spikelets narrowly ovoid; basal glumes 1.5-3.3 mm, thickly membranous; apical glumes thinner and paler. Female spikelets usually at basal part of branch, narrowly ovoid; glumes 5; basal 2 glumes ovate, not keeled; apical 3 glumes ovate to ovate-lanceolate, keeled, apex awned. Male flowers: stamens 3. Female flowers: stigmas 3. Disk yellowish white, slightly narrower than nutlet, deeply 3-lobed, margins partly reflexed. Nutlet white, spherical, 2.5-2.8 mm in diam., 3-sided, reticulate, puberulent, apex tipped. [details]Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 19(3): 241. 1999 to Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 19: 241 (1999), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be found in [details]
