| Scirpus validus M, Vahl | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Description | Culms stout, up to 2 cm thick at base, erect, in rows from thick, stout, scaly, reddish-brown rhizome; basal sheaths membranaceous, bladeless; involucral leaf shorter than the compressed inflorescence; spikelets dark brown; scales ovate, with excurrent keel, equaling or slightly exceeding achenes. | ||
| Ecology | Shallow water, marshes. Described from islands of the Caribbean. Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of the closely related S. Tabernaemontani S. G. Gmel. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.