Robust , perennial sedge ; up to 90 cm tall or more , tufted , with erect branched thick woody rhizome covered with triangular scales , dark purple-brown . Stems erect , rounded , grey-green , hollow except at the nodes , terete , finely ridged , covered with leaf sheaths at base , smooth . Leaves inserted at the stem base and spiral along the length of stem ; leaf sheath to 15 cm , tubular , disintegrating into fibres , hard , persistent , brown ; ligule absent ; blade to 50 × 5-9 cm , linear , flat or folded , apex acuminate , trigonous , margin sharply serrate , greyish green . Inflorescences terminal , spikes clustered at the end of secondary and primary branches ; bracts longer than the partial inflorescence ; peduncles to 25 cm ; spikes fusiform , 4 mm . Flowers unisexual and bisexual ; unisexual flowers: with 2 stamens present in the axil of 4th glume ; bisexual flowers: with 2 stamens and pistil present in the axil of 5th glume . Fruit nut , broadly ovoid or obovoid , fusiform ,
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Rare & Threatened (RT) - Vulnerable (VU A4abc) - National Assessment
Rare
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Mariscus mariscus (L.) Borbás
Schoenus mariscus L.
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Saw Grass
Swamp Sawgrass
Great Fen-sedge
Saw-sedge
Sawtooth Sedge
Jamaica Swamp Sawgrass
Not recorded yet. (Ref. Oman Botanic Garden).
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