''Schoenoplectiella mucronata'' is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family known by the common names bog bulrush, rough-seed bulrush, and ricefield bulrush.

Distribution

It is native to Eurasia, Africa and Australia.

Habitat and description

It grows in moist and wet terrestrial habitat, and in shallow water. It is a perennial herb growing from a short, hard

rhizome In botany and dendrology, a rhizome ( ) is a modified subterranean plant stem that sends out roots and Shoot (botany), shoots from its Node (botany), nodes. Rhizomes are also called creeping rootstalks or just rootstalks. Rhizomes develop from ...

. The erect, three-angled stems grow in dense clumps and can reach a metre tall. The leaves take the form of sheaths wrapped around the base of stem, but they generally do not have blades. The

inflorescence In botany, an inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a plant's Plant stem, stem that is composed of a main branch or a system of branches. An inflorescence is categorized on the basis of the arrangement of flowers on a mai ...

is a headlike cluster of cone-shaped spikelets accompanied by an angled, stiff

bract In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis or cone scale. Bracts are usually different from foliage leaves in size, color, shape or texture. They also lo ...

which may look like a continuation of the stem. It is a

weed A weed is a plant considered undesirable in a particular situation, growing where it conflicts with human preferences, needs, or goals.Harlan, J. R., & deWet, J. M. (1965). Some thoughts about weeds. ''Economic botany'', ''19''(1), 16-24. Pla ...

of rice fields in

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Taxonomy

Plants of the World Online Plants of the World Online (POWO) is an online taxonomic database published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. History Following the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew launched Plants of the World Online i ...

lists 35 taxonomic synonyms of ''Schoenoplectiella mucronata'', and the

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH) is an association of the leaders of herbaria in Australia and New Zealand. It is governed by a constitution. It endorses the taxonomy and nomenclature of the Australian Plant Census, which is the so ...

lists two. It was first described as ''Scirpus mucronatus'' in 1753 by

Carl Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...

. In 1889

Eduard Palla Eduard Palla (3 September 1864 – 7 March 1922) was an Austrian botanist and mycologist of Moravian descent. As a botanist he specialized in research of Cyperaceae (sedges), of which he was the taxonomic authority of many species. From 1883 to ...

transferred it to the genus, ''

Schoenoplectus ''Schoenoplectus'' (club-rush ld World species bulrush or tule ew World species is a genus of plants in the Cyperaceae, sedge family with a cosmopolitan distribution. Note that the name bulrush is also applied to species in the unrelated ...

'', and ''Schoenoplectus mucronatus'' was the accepted name until 2010 when it was transferred to the genus, ''

Schoenoplectiella ''Schoenoplectiella'' is a genus of flowering plants in the Cyperaceae, sedge family. Its has a nearly-cosmopolitan distribution. The genus was first described in 2003 by Kaare Arnstein Lye, and the type species is ''Schoenoplectiella articulata' ...

'' by Jongduk Jung and Hong-Kuen Choi.

References

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Photos and distribution
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mucronata Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Cyperaceae-stub