Bulbostylis schaffneri
Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew, addit. ser. 8: 26. 1908.
Herbs, annual, cespitose, diminutive. Culms at most to 7 cm. Leaves overtopping scapes; sheaths pale, shorter than blade; blades spreading or curving outward, filiform, 0.5 mm wide, flat to slightly involute, margins thickened, scabrid. Inflorescences: spikelets solitary, either atop short, stiff glabrous scapes or very short-scaped to subsessile and clustered at plant base, pale with greenish scale midribs, ovoid, 5 mm; involucral-bracts 2, the proximal strongly bladed, much exceeding spikelet. Spikelets: fertile scales lanceolate, keeled, 3.5 mm, keel excurrent as mucro or cusp. Flowers: stamens 3; anthers narrowly oblong, 0.5 mm. Achenes yellowish or pale gray, ribs prominent, trigonousobovoid, 1 mm, faces evenly, finely transversely rugose.
Phenology: Fruiting all year.
Habitat: Sandy or gravelly clearings in pine or oak-pine
Elevation: 0–3000 m
Distribution
N.Mex., n Mexico
Discussion
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
"shortened" is not a number."-7cm" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property.