Scleria acanthocarpa Boeckeler

  • Authority

    Koyama, Tetsuo M. 1967. The systematic significance of leaf structure in the tribe Sclerieae (Cyperaceae). Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 16: 46-70.

  • Family

    Cyperaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Scleria acanthocarpa Boeckeler

  • Description

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    Species Description - Structure resembling that of S. bracteata described above, but differing in the following details: Some of the inflated cells at median adaxial epidermis occasionally subjoined by a few round translucent cells. In the adnation area between the leaf blade proper and the wing large and small vascular bundles slightly remotely spaced, the large bundle vertical, supported by adaxial and abaxial girders, the small bundle inversed with an adaxial low girder. Inflated abaxial epidermis of wing outside adnation area 2-layered, the tall epidermal cells subjoined by depressed-orbicular hypodermal cells.