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Sedge Club- & Spike-Rush Family [Cyperaceae] |
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27th July 2012, Marshside, Sefton Coast, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
Grows en-masse in brackish water near the sea, here getting a mixture of sea-water and rain-water from the sea-wall. |
27th July 2012, Marshside, Sefton Coast, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
Grows up to 1.2m high. |
27th July 2012, Marshside, Sefton Coast, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
Has brown flowers 9/10ths of the way from the ground. |
27th July 2012, Marshside, Sefton Coast, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
The flowers nestle between two short leaf-like bracts set roughly at 90°. |
27th July 2012, Marshside, Sefton Coast, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
One leaf-like bract is a lot shorter than the second, and resemble outstretched thumb and foregingers on the end of a long single straingth stalk. The flowers grow in the junction of bracts and on shorter stalks from the junction. |
27th July 2012, Marshside, Sefton Coast, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
All bracts and stems are triangular in cross-section. |
27th July 2012, Marshside, Sefton Coast, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
The flowers are long and slightly tapering cylinders, coloured brown with reddish-brown glumes, a bit like coconutmatting. There are two paperish bracts semi-wrapping around the leaf-like bracts at the junction. |
27th July 2012, Marshside, Sefton Coast, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
The flowers have cream-coloured twisted awns on the ends of white 'threads'. |
27th July 2012, Marshside, Sefton Coast, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
The awns are flat and spiral like barley-sugar rock. With insect. |
10th June 2008, Madina West Bank, IoW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone |
This is what it looks like when all the flowers try to escape at once. |
27th July 2012, Marshside, Sefton Coast, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
The papery bracts around the junction of the leaf-like bracts. All stems have slightly concave edges and are triangular in cross-section. |
27th July 2012, Marshside, Sefton Coast, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
The stems are slightly rough, especially along the 3 corner-edges. This specimen has been purposely split open lengthways to show the white pith within. |
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Bolboschoenus | maritimus | ⇐ Global Aspect ⇒ | Cyperaceae |
Bolboschoenus (Sea Club-Rush) |
Sedge Club- & Spike-Rush Family [Cyperaceae] |