Schoenus nigricans L.

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Cyperaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Schoenus nigricans L.

  • Description

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    Species Description - Glabrous; culms 2-7 dm. tall, mostly longer than the leaves. Leaves similar to the culm, stiff, sharp-pointed, semiterete, 0.5-1.5 mm. thick, their bases dark brown or nearly black, shining; involucre of 2 bracts, one of them elongated, sometimes 8 cm. long; spikelets about 1 cm. long in a dense, terminal, capitate cluster, 5-8-flowered, compressed, their scales dark chestnutbrown, or nearly black, lanceolate, carinate, acuminate, somewhat shining; perianth-bristles 6, plumose; achene ellipsoid, white, shining, about 2 mm. long; shorter than the bristles.

  • Distribution

    Swamps, Andros, New Providence, Eleuthera, Crooked Island, Caicos : Florida ; Cuba; southern California; Europe. Black-headed Sedge.

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