Scirpus ternatanus

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Scirpus ternatanus

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Description

Perennial. Leaves rigid, flat, gradually acuminate, the cauline ones often overtopping the stem, ¾-2½ cm wide; Inflorescence terminal, um- belliform, copiously branched, compound to supra- decompound, usually dense, 10-25 cm across. Stamens 2-3;

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Borneo present (Sabah present); Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Bonin Is present, Luzon present, Mindanao present, Mt Gedeh-Pangerango present, Mt Kinabalu present, Mt Trusmadi present, NW. Himalaya present, Ryu Kyu Is present, S. Asia present, S. China present, Southern America: Argentina Northeast (Formosa present), Ternate present, W. Java present, near Talun between Mt Papandajan and Mt Kantjana present
From the NW. Himalaya through S. Asia to S. China, Formosa, the Ryu Kyu Is. and Bonin Is.; in Malesia: throughout Sumatra, W. Java (Mt Gedeh-Pangerango; near Talun between Mt Papandajan and Mt Kantjana), Philippines (Luzon, Mindanao), Borneo (Mt Kinabalu; Sabah: Mt Trusmadi), Celebes, Moluccas (Ternate), New Guinea.

Notes

Very variable as to size of spikelets and glumes, and number of bristles. According to CLARKE the plants are often stoloniferous when growing in swamps, and their leaf-sheaths occasion- ally perforated by descending aerial stolons (like in S. radicans SCHK.).

Citation

Miq. 1909: Ill. Cyp.: f. 1-4
KERN 1968 – In: Back. & Bakh.f., Fl. Java 3: 458
Ridl. 1916 – In: Trans. Linn. Soc.: 242
KÜK. 1938 – In: Bot. Jahrb.: 259
BACK. 1949 – In: Bekn. Fl. Java, (em. ed.): fam. 246, p. 10
RAYMOND 1957 – In: Nat. Canad.: 115
Miq. 1940 – In: Bull. Jard. Bot. Btzg: 301
S. T. BLAKE 1954 – In: J. Arn. Arb.: 203
Miq. 1944 – In: Mem. Coll. Sc. Kyoto Imp. Un. B: 108
OHWI 1942 – In: Bot. Mag. Tokyo: 204
Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 118
Miq. 1857 – In: De Vriese, Pl. Ind. Bat. Or.: 140
KÜK. 1944 – In: Fedde, Rep. 53: 101
Clarke 1898 – In: J. Linn. Soc.: 83
Miq. 1907 – In: Philip. J. Sc.: Bot. 100
VALCK. SUR. 1912 – In: Nova Guinea: 705
Clarke 1893 – In: Fl. Br. Ind.: 662