MARISCUS Vahl
MONANDRUS Vorster
Perennial, less often annual, herbs, tufted or with rhizomes or stolons, sometimes producing tubers or bulbs. Culms usually triangular. Leaves usually at or near the base of the culm, the culm base sometimes swollen, 3-ranked, linear and grass-like, the lower ones often scale-like. Inflorescence terminal, often a subumbel-like anthela or congested into a dense head; subtended by leaf-like involucral bracts. Spikelets 1-many-flowered. Glumes distichous. Perianth 0. Stamens 1-3. Stigmas 2-3, if 2, then nutlet dorsally flattened. Fruit a nutlet, usually dorsally flattened. Worldwide: c. 300 species in warm and tropical countries Rwanda: 45 taxa. |
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| Species | Content | |
| ajax C.B.Clarke | ||
| articulatus L. | Description, Image | |
| aterrimus Steud. | ||
| costatus Mattf. & Kük. | ||
| cyperoides (L.) Kuntze | Description, Image | |
| denudatus L.f. | Description, Image | |
| derreilema Steud. | ||
| dichrostachyus Hochst. ex A.Rich. | ||
| difformis L. | Description, Image | |
| digitatus Roxb. subsp. auricomus (Sieber ex Spreng.) Kük. | Description, Image | |
| distans L.f. | Description, Image | |
| diurensis Boeckeler | ||
| dives Delile | ||
| dubius Poir. var. macrocephalus (C.B.Clarke) Kük. | ||
| dubius Rottb. var. dubius | Description, Image | |
| esculentus L. | Description, Image | |
| ferrugineoviridis (C.B. Clarke) Kük. | ||
| glaucophyllus Boeckeler | ||
| involucratus Rottb. | Description, Image | |
| karisimbiensis (Cherm.) Kük. | ||
| laevigatus L. | Description, Image | |
| latifolius Poir. | ||
| luteus Boeck. | ||
| macrocarpus (Kunth) Boeckeler | ||
| maculatus Boeckeler | ||
| mollipes (C.B. Clarke) K. Schum. | Description, Image | |
| niveus Retz. var. leucocephalus (Kunth) Fosberg | Description, Image | |
| nuerensis Boeckeler | ||
| papyrus L. | Description, Image | |
| pectinatus Vahl | Description, Image | |
| platycaulis Baker | ||
| pseudoleptocladus Kük. | ||
| pustulatus Vahl | ||
| renschii Boeck. | Description, Image | |
| rigidifolius Steud. | ||
| rotundus L. | Description, Image | |
| rubicundus Vahl | ||
| ruwenzoriensis (C.B.Clarke) Huygh | ||
| squarrosus L. | Description, Image | |
| tenuiculmis Boeckeler | ||
| tenuispica Steud. | ||
| tomaiophyllus K. Schum. | ||
| trigonellus Suess. | Description, Image | |
| vandervekenii Reynders, Dhooge & Goetgh. | ||
| vestitus Hochst. ex C. Krauss |