| South-Asian Club-Rush |
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| Original date | 3/17/20 10:16 PM |
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| Focal length | 55.0mm |
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| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5300 |
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Botanical name: Schoenoplectiella juncoides Family: Cyperaceae (Sedge family)
Synonyms: Scirpus junciformis, Scirpus timorensis, Scirpus rockii
Synonyms: Scirpus junciformis, Scirpus timorensis, Scirpus rockii
South-Asian Club-Rush is an annual herb, 1-2 ft tall.
Roots are fibrous, yellow-brown. Stem are up to about 50 cm, 1-1.5 mm
in diameter, round or 5-6 angled, smooth, green or yellowish-green.
Leaves are reduced to sheaths. Sheaths are two, lower up to 2 cm, green
or yellow, soon disintegrating, upper (inner) up to 8.5 cm, green,
later yellowish. Flowers are borne in 1-3 stalkless spikes; lowest
bract up to 7 cm, round, tip pointed. Spikes are up to 18 x about 8 mm,
ovoid; glumes 2.8-4 mm, widely boat-shaped, mid-nerve extending into
short, smooth mucro, sides obscurely nerved, yellowish brown, tip
rounded, margin narrowly scarious, with short fringe. South-Asian
Club-Rush is native to W. Indian Ocean, Asia to Pacific. It is found in
the Himalaya, at altitudes of 1500-2700 m. Flowering: January-March.
| Identification credit: Ashutosh Sharma | Photographed in Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh. |
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