<documentID-CLB-Dataset="264788"ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.5091/plecevo.98847"ID-GBIF-Dataset="2aaa4e51-ec7b-4d32-ba88-5d690b8f2a01"ID-Pensoft-Pub="2032-3921-3-276"ID-Pensoft-UUID="BC5E6BD70022518ABF185FC3C18147CE"ModsDocID="2032-3921-156-3-276"checkinTime="1693470036859"checkinUser="pensoft"docAuthor="Rasaminirina, Fitiavana & Larridon, Isabel"docDate="2023"docId="7D978FA6379759B8AFFC4137B5FF80AF"docLanguage="en"docName="PlantEcolEvol 156(3): 276-310"docOrigin="Plant Ecology and Evolution 156 (3)"docPubDate="2023-08-29"docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.5091/plecevo.98847"docTitle="Actinoschoenus Benth. (Bentham 1881"docType="treatment"docVersion="4"id="BC5E6BD70022518ABF185FC3C18147CE"lastPageNumber="276"masterDocId="BC5E6BD70022518ABF185FC3C18147CE"masterDocTitle="The genera of Cyperaceae of Madagascar"masterLastPageNumber="310"masterPageNumber="276"pageNumber="276"updateTime="1720463581714"updateUser="admin">
<mods:affiliationid="E21D217AD235942ADBB07117D9E9B687">Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre, Antananarivo, Madagascar & Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, UK</mods:affiliation>
<paragraphid="D7ACE21356370F6429290FBFBC4B4B18"pageId="0"pageNumber="276">Description of the genus.</paragraph>
<paragraphid="F8F7F388213359B44337C0F8B2098A2F"pageId="0"pageNumber="276">Small to medium-sized, tufted, shortly rhizomatous or stoloniferous perennials. Culms scapose, smooth, tufted, more or less 4-angular, bases covered by closed leaf sheaths. Leaves ligulate if present, blade very short, almost reduced to a sheath. Primary bracts small, not very conspicuous not sheathing. Inflorescence terminal, capitate. Spikelets 2 or many. Glumes 4-7 distichous, deciduous glumes, of increasing length; rachilla internodes short, somewhat elongated between the florets. Floret(s) 1(-2), subtended by the penultimate larger glume, enclosed by the wings of the next glume, bisexual. Perianth bristles absent. Stamens 3. Style deeply 3-fid, style base distinct, thickened, deciduous. Nutlets obovoid, trigonous, more or less 3-ribbed, surface smooth to slightly tuberculate.</paragraph>
occurs from West-Central Tropical Africa to Zambia, Western Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka to southern China and Australia (
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). It grows in open woodland on dry sandy areas (
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. All photos taken in Andrainjato, Taolagnaro District, Anosy Region by Andriambolantsoa Rasolohery (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/145409565), reproduced with permission from the photographer.
