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Tapirlord
wrote:
10 Dec 2024
Hey Jane. Yes I would, infloresence is the first detail in the Plantnet key.
Inflorescence of several obviously pedunculate flower clusters or with only shortly pedunculate clusters(Luzula novae-cambriae)
Inflorescence a single ovate or globose head, or an oblong head with a few subsessile lower clusters (Luzula ovata)
Inflorescence of several obviously pedunculate flower clusters or with only shortly pedunculate clusters(Luzula novae-cambriae)
Inflorescence a single ovate or globose head, or an oblong head with a few subsessile lower clusters (Luzula ovata)
Luzula ovata
JaneR
wrote:
6 Dec 2024
I was placing emphasis on capsule colour as described by Flora Vic:
Admittedly inflorescence shape is like other L. ovata sighted recently: but capsule colour for L. ovata is given as ruby-red-oxblood red (PlantNet) .
Would you emphasise inflorescence shape over capsule colour ?
Admittedly inflorescence shape is like other L. ovata sighted recently: but capsule colour for L. ovata is given as ruby-red-oxblood red (PlantNet) .
Would you emphasise inflorescence shape over capsule colour ?
Luzula ovata
JaneR
wrote:
5 Dec 2024
Accepted as L. densiflora (with reservations) based on tepal characteristics: however, leaves look soft (a characteristic for meridionalis); and what's puzzling, is that capsule length exceeds tepals (descriptions for all Luzula spp in FloraVic have capsule equal or shorter than tepals).
Luzula densiflora
JaneR
wrote:
3 Dec 2024
These Typha simplify biodiversity and habitat when they take over.
There’s a possibility that this is the non-native Typha, which seems to be expanding: you would need a photograph of the inflorescence before it dies off, to check the colour.
Even if it is one of the two native species ( domingensis or orientalis, though leaf width suggests more likely to be orientalis), so are the plants it would be replacing if it establishes.
It doesn’t look vigorous. However the underground parts can persist for a few years.
Personally, I hope it dies out. Even a small patch acts as a seed source potentially dispersing to other parts of the landscape
There’s a possibility that this is the non-native Typha, which seems to be expanding: you would need a photograph of the inflorescence before it dies off, to check the colour.
Even if it is one of the two native species ( domingensis or orientalis, though leaf width suggests more likely to be orientalis), so are the plants it would be replacing if it establishes.
It doesn’t look vigorous. However the underground parts can persist for a few years.
Personally, I hope it dies out. Even a small patch acts as a seed source potentially dispersing to other parts of the landscape
Typha sp.
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