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Project Name Data (Last Modified On 10/28/2012)
 

Flora Data (Last Modified On 10/28/2012)
Species SISYRINCHIUM MICRANTHUM Cav.
PlaceOfPublication Diss. Bot. 6:144. Pl. 191, fig. 2. 1788.
Synonym Sisyrinchium micranthemum Pers. Syn. 1:50. 1805, sphalm. Marica micrantha (Cav.) Ker, Irid. Gen. 22. 1827.
Description Small caespitose herbs usually forming grass-like turfs, not greatly discoloring in drying; roots slender and fibrous; leaves linear-ensiform, 4-9 cm. long, 0.1-0.3 cm. broad, both basal and sparse upon the flowering stems; flowering stems almost invariably branching at least once, 7-2 0 cm. long, slender and only slightly ancipitous; inflorescence simple, few- to several-flowered; spathe valves very un- equal, foliaceous, compressed, the outer 1-3 cm. long; perianth- blue to pinkish lavender, usually yellowish at the base, rather narrow, 0.7-0.8 cm. long, minutely puberulent to glabrous at the base without; stamen filaments completely connate to the anthers, about 0.1 cm. long; capsules globose, about 0.3 cm. in diameter; seeds somewhat angular, about 0.1 cm. in diameter, conspicuously reticulate- foveolate.
Habit herbs
Distribution Southern Mexico to Bolivia, in subalpine meadows and open woods.
Specimen CHIRIQUI: Volcain de Chiriqui, Woodson, Allen d Seibert 889; Cerro Punta, Seibert 250; Chiquero, Davidson 560; upper Rio Chiriqui Viejo, White d White 4; El Boquete, Pittier 2968; Bajo Chorro, Woodson d Schery 628.
Note S. micranthum is closely allied to the northern S. angustifolium ("Blue-eyed Grass") and the southern S. chilense, both, of which have much more open perianths and glumaceous spathes of nearly equal valves, and which possibly are no more than subspecifically distinct upon the basis of their seeds.
 
 
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