<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="21EC295E36205C7C89F2BC74904F32B4"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="Fuirena Rottb. (Rottboll 1773"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="33E660ECD69A96C5EE66A4FB4910981F">Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre, Antananarivo, Madagascar & Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, UK</mods:affiliation>
<paragraphid="9B6C605E7AB24DAE7CEFD7348779A168"pageId="0"pageNumber="276">Description of the genus.</paragraph>
<paragraphid="52911E28E259DB97F38D0EC87691D04E"pageId="0"pageNumber="276">Annuals or rhizomatous perennials. Culms many-noded, rarely scapose, 3-5-sided, sometimes thickened at base. Leaves usually well developed, basal and cauline, ligule tubular, membranous, with blade often reduced in lower leaves (rarely all leaf blades reduced). Involucral bracts leaf-like, usually sheathing, lowermost bract sometimes erect. Inflorescence terminal (in reduced inflorescences, bract may be erect, but clearly leaf-like), paniculate to capitate with few to many spikelets. Glumes many, spirally arranged or rarely pentastichously arranged, deciduous, each subtending a flower, often pubescent, the apex entire and mucronate to awned. Floret bisexual. Perianth present, as long or shorter than nutlet, formed by 3 parts, or when 6 in 2 whorls, the inner parts scale-like, the outer parts bristle-like, rarely all parts reduced or absent or only 1 scale developed, deciduous with the fruit. Stamens 1-3. Style 3-fid, base persistent, barely thickened, if at all. Nutlets obovate, triquetrous to trigonous, frequently stipitate, smooth or variously ornamented. Embryo turbinate to weakly fungiform with a horizontally broadened scutellum, first leaf primordium not strongly outgrown, the second leaf primordium either absent or poorly developed.</paragraph>
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). It grows in seasonally wet grasslands, freshwater wetlands, on sand or in rocky areas.
<figureCitationid="15C55BF359EFABBB495C78C30D3FA935"captionStart="Figure 8"captionStartId="F8"captionText="Figure 8. A. Scleria distans. B. Bulbostylis itremoensis. C. Fuirena pubescens (pale green) and Schoenoplectiella corymbosa (dark green). All photos by Fitiavana Rasaminirina."figureDoi="10.5091/plecevo.98847.figure8"httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/898159"pageId="0"pageNumber="276">8C</figureCitation>
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<figureCitationid="2D907771C3E5337010B621F14C9FDD55"captionStart="Figure 19"captionStartId="F19"captionText="Figure 19. Fuirena pubescens. A. Nutlet. B. Habit. C. Leaf sheath apex. D. Inflorescence. E. Glume lateral view. F. Floret. A-C from Taylor 36; D-F from Browning 165. Scale bars: A = 40 mm; B, C = 5 mm; D-F = 1 mm. Drawn by Jane Browning, reproduced with permission from the artist, originally published in Gordon-Gray (1995)."figureDoi="10.5091/plecevo.98847.figure19"httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/898170"pageId="0"pageNumber="276">19</figureCitation>
