Everardia

  • Authority

    Maguire, Bassett. 1965. The Botany of the Guayana Highland. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 12 (3): 1-285.

  • Family

    Cyperaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Everardia

  • Type

    Type species. Everardia montana Ridley ex im Thurn.

  • Description

    Species Description - Terrestrial or more or less epiphytic perennials. Caudexes erect or ascending, woody, thickly clothed with residues of leaf sheaths often disintegrating into parallel or reticulate fibers. Leaves aggregated, blades linear, stiff or stiffish, often pubescent especially towards base; sheaths connate-margined with produced contra-ligules. Flowering culms lateral, arising from axils of leaves, always solitary, clothed at base with a bladeless sheath. Inflorescence an interrupted or contiguous compound panicle, occupying the greater part of culms. Spikelets unisexual (very rarel) dioecious), the staminate ones generally born on middle and lower portions of branchlets whereas the pistillate towards apices; glumes imbricate. Staminate spikelets several-flowered, the lower 3 to 8 glumes empty; stamens as a rule 6 (rarely 3 or up to 8) to a flower. Pistillate spikelets 1-flowered; pistils trigynous with long pilose hypogynous squamellae; fructifications obovoid to oblanceolate, obtusely trigonous; utricles adnate to achenes for total length without cavit.y, the beak subulate, sometimes reduced to a short conical mucro.

  • Distribution

    Distribution. See Fig. 1, C.

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