Schoenus

• Authority

  Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

• Family

  Cyperaceae

• Scientific Name

  Schoenus

• Description

  Genus Description - Perennial sedges, with stiff, tufted culms, basal, narrow or semiterete leaves, the 1-few-flowered spikelets clustered, capitate or paniculate, the clusters subtended by 1 bract or few. Scales imbricated in 2 series, the lower ones empty the upper subtending flowers. Perianth of 3-6, scabrous or plumose bristles. Stamens 3. Style slender, scarcely enlarged at the base, 3-cleft, deciduous. Aehene trigonous; tubercle none. [Greek, a rush.] Sixty species or more, mostly natives of the Old World, the following typical.