Tenerife sedge
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The Tenerife squid ( Cyperus teneriffae Poir. , Syn .: Cyperus rubicundus Vahl ) is a species of the sour grass family (Cyperaceae).
features
The Tenerife sedge is an annual rock plant that reaches heights of 5 to 20 centimeters. The basal leaves are 1 to 3 millimeters wide, rutty and slack as well as sharply expanded. The cephalic inflorescence consists of 3 to 10 strongly compressed spikelets , which in turn consist of 12 to 32 flowers . Sometimes it is surmounted by 2 or 3, more rarely 4 bracts.
The flowering period extends from September to February.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 42, 50 or 52.
Occurrence
The Tenerife sedge occurs from Africa and the Canary Islands to western Asia and India, in Indonesia and in northern Australia. In the Canaries, it occurs in Tenerife and Gran Canaria . The species grows there in the succulent bush.
literature
- Ingrid and Peter Schönfelder : Kosmos-Atlas Mediterranean and Canary Islands flora . Franckh-Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-440-06223-6 , p. 280 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Rafaël Govaerts (ed.): Cyperus rubicundus. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved October 27, 2016.
- ^ Tropicos. [1]
Web link
- Cyperus rubicundus inthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Threatened Species . Posted by: Kumar, B., 2011. Retrieved April 11, 2014.