Biology:Lipocarpha
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Short description: Genus of grass-like plants
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| Hairlike Lipocarpha micrantha next to an unrelated leaf for scale | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Cyperaceae |
| Genus: | Lipocarpha R.Br. |
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Lipocarpha is a genus of sedges known as halfchaff sedges. There are approximately 35 species and representatives can be found throughout the tropical and warmer temperate areas of Africa, Asia (China , India , Indonesia, etc.), Australia , North America, South America and various oceanic islands.[1][2][3] These mostly are erect annual herbs (some perennials are known) growing 1 to 30 centimeters tall. The inflorescence consists of one to few spikes each containing many spirally arranged spikelets. The flower is entangled with two hyalin scales, a spikelet prophyll and a glume. These flower stands in the axil of a spikelet-bract.[4]
Species include:[1]
- Lipocarpha abietina – tropical Africa
- Lipocarpha albiceps – tropical Africa
- Lipocarpha aristulata – western and central United States
- Lipocarpha atra – tropical Africa
- Lipocarpha barteri – tropical Africa
- Lipocarpha chinensis – tropical Africa, Indian Subcontinent, China, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Australia
- Lipocarpha comosa – central and eastern Africa
- Lipocarpha constricta – Ethiopia, Burundi
- Lipocarpha crassicuspis – Senegal
- Lipocarpha drummondii – eastern and southern United States
- Lipocarpha echinus – Zambia
- Lipocarpha filiformis – tropical Africa
- Lipocarpha gracilis – western and central Africa, Indian Subcontinent, Thailand, Myanmar; naturalized in Brazil
- Lipocarpha hemisphaerica tropical and southern Africa; India, Thailand
- Lipocarpha kernii – tropical Africa, India
- Lipocarpha leucaspis – central Africa
- Lipocarpha maculata – southeastern United States; Mexico, Central America, Cuba, Trinidad, South America
- Lipocarpha mangarevica – Tuamotu
- Lipocarpha mexicana – Mexico, Central America, northern South America, Madagascar
- Lipocarpha micrantha – United States, Canada, West Indies, Latin America, Madagascar, Senegal, Southern Africa
- Lipocarpha microcephala – China, Japan, Korea, Indochina, Indonesia, Philippines, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Australia
- Lipocarpha monostachya – central Africa
- Lipocarpha nana – tropical and southern Africa; Madagascar
- Lipocarpha occidentalis – Oregon, Washington, California
- Lipocarpha perspicua – Angola
- Lipocarpha prieuriana – tropical Africa
- Lipocarpha pygmaea – Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar
- Lipocarpha raynaliana – India
- Lipocarpha reddyi – India
- Lipocarpha rehmannii – tropical and southern Africa; Madagascar
- Lipocarpha robinsonii – Angola, Zambia
- Lipocarpha salzmanniana – Veracruz, Central America, Cuba, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil
- Lipocarpha schomburgkii – Venezuela, Guyana
- Lipocarpha squarrosa – Indian Subcontinent, Himalayas, Indochina; naturalized in Java and Florida
- Lipocarpha thermalis – Zaïre
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ Flora of North America, Lipocarpha
- ↑ Flora of China, Vol. 23 Page 249, 湖瓜草属 hu gua cao shu, Lipocarpha R. Brown in Tuckey, Narr. Exped. Zaire. 459. 1818.
- ↑ Govaerts, R. & Simpson, D.A. (2007). World Checklist of Cyperaceae. Sedges: 1-765. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q3270856 entry
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