| Schoenus nigricans L., it is a densely tussocky perennial herb with few-many culms and numerous leafy shoots, rhizome short producing tillers. culms node-less, 15-70 cm tall, 0,5-2 mm Ø, almost terete with many rounded ridges, glabrous; leaves basal, 1/2 of culm length, sheaths chestnut-brown to reddish-brown, often glossy, blades mostly 10-40 cm long, 0,4-1 mm wide, flat, somewhat canaliculate, hard, wiry. Inflorescence 0,5-2 x 1-1,5 cm. With 5-20 crowded spikelets sheathed by 2 bracts, the lower with a long attenuate blade-like portion, the upper similar but much shorter, spikelets dark blackish, fusiform, compressed, 5-15×1-2 mm, lowest 2 sterile, following 2-3 fertile, uppermost sterile, rachilla zig-zag. nutlet ± globose, 1,5×1 mm, glossy, white. Life Form: G, Flowering in: Apr-Des, Vern:————, Phytochoria: Cosm, The native range of this species is Cosmopolitan. Notes: Wild in Libya/
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:312959-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/312959-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000531591, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/37537/schoenus-nigricans-l, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=43586, https://www.maltawildplants.com/CYPR/Schoenus_nigricans.php, https://www.infoflora.ch/en/flora/schoenus-nigricans.html, https://inpn.mnhn.fr/espece/cd_nom/121581/tab/fiche, https://www.i-flora.com/en/fact-sheets/search-for-species/art/show/schoenus-nigricans.html, https://www.orchid-nord.com/Flore-France/Cyperaceae/Schoenus%20nigricans/Schoenus-nigricans.html, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoenus_nigricans |
| Distribution in Libya | |
| Al-Jafarah Plain | Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Tajura, Ain Zara 1931 | Wadi Gala above Ras El-Hilal 1970 |
| Bibliographic references: | |
| First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan: | |
| Jafri, S.M.H. & El-Gadi, A. (1985) Flora of Libya, Cyperaceae Vol. (120) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. | |
| Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest: | pdf files |
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