Scleria
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.
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Family
Cyperaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Herbs, erect or infrequently ascendant. Rhizomes absent or less frequently elongate, short, or tuberous. Culms triangular. Leaves well developed along the culm (stem), the basal ones not developed; leaf blades linear, flat or somewhat involute, herbaceous, usually with the margins and the principal vein scabrous; leaf sheath trigonous, closed. Inflorescence a panicle or spike, terminal or terminal and axillary; involucral bracts similar to the leaves or absent; spikelets sessile or pedicellate, the staminate ones lanceolate or oblong, with numerous flowers, the scales spiralis arranged: pistillate spikelets ovate or elliptical, the scales distichous; flowers unisexual; stamens 1-3; gynoecium with 3 stigmas, ovary usually with a hypogynium at the base. Fruit a subglobose achene, white or variegated with purple. A genus of tropical and subtropical zones, of about 200-225 species.