Victorian. Plants. 105 



Few or only two of the bracts fruit-bearing. 



Spikelets nearly always more than one; floral axis (rhacheole) 

 conspicuously flexuous ; flowers usually all pistillate ; 

 empty lower bracts generally more than two ; sepals and 

 petals replaced by bristlets or absent ; stamens usually 

 three ; style equally thin ; stigmas three ; fruits rarely 

 reduced to one in its spikelet. Schoenus. 1967 



513. Only one floral bract to each flower ... ... ... 514 



Two inner either connate or disconnected bracts to 

 each pistillate flower in addition to the ordinary 

 floral bract .. ... ... ... ... ... 516 



514. Style thin throughout. 



Leaves often well developed ; spikelets nearly always more 

 than one, often lateral or infra-terminal ; all flowers 

 staminate and pistillate ; usually only the lowest bract 

 empty ; stamens three or less ; stigmas two or three. 



Scirpus. 1977 

 Base of style enlarged ... ... ... ... 515 



515. Style-base continuous with the fruit, persistent. 



Leaves never well developed ; spikelets always singly 

 terminal, unsupported by any floral leaf ; all flowers 

 staminate and pistillate ; usually only the lowest bract 

 empty ; sepals and petals changed into bristlets, rarely 

 absent ; stamens three or less ; stigmas two or three. 



Keleocharis. 1989 



Style-base jointed on the fruit, finally deciduous. 



Leaves nearly always well developed ; spikelets generally 

 more than one, terminal ; all flowers staminate and 

 pistillate ; usually only the lowest bract empty ; rudi- 

 mentary sepals and petals absent ; stamens three or less ; 

 stigmas two or three. Pimbristylis. 1992 



516. Inner floral bracts two, disconnected. 



Spikelets generally more than one, terminally crowded, to 

 be regarded as spikes on assuming the inner sepal-like 

 organs to be bracteal, not calycine ; all flowers staminate 

 and pistillate ; usually only the lowest bract empty ; 

 stamens two or one ; style thin throughout ; stigmas two 

 or three. Lipocarpha. 1995 



Inner floral bract forming an utricular almost closed 

 covering around the fruit ... ... ... ... 517 



