Eleocharis quinqueflora

Armblütige bulrush ( Eleocharis quinqueflora ), habitus

The Armblütige bulrush ( Eleocharis quinqueflora ), also Wenigblütige marsh sills, is a critically endangered species of the family in Germany the Sedge family ( Cyperaceae ). It is an inconspicuous, only 15 cm tall plant of the expectant Kalkflachmoore.

Occurrence

The Armblütige bulrush flowers in May and June and grows on wet, marshy meadows, in the Low and source bogs and in wet-dry valleys of the coastal dunes. It is slightly tolerant of salt and base hold. The plant comes in meridional ago to boreal climates of the northern hemisphere from North America to Europe and West Asia, both in flat and in the hill country. Their populations are both in Europe and in Germany in the fall. In Germany the Armblütige bulrush is Endangered and is also on the Red List of endangered ferns and flowering plants. In Rhineland -Palatinate, Saxony and Saxony- Anhalt, already considered lost. In North Rhine -Westphalia, Brandenburg and Thuringia, it is threatened with extinction. The reason for the decline is the destruction of natural habitats: the intensive use of arable wetlands and the drainage of peatlands.

Description

The evergreen, perennial, only about 15 cm tall expectant Armblütige bulrush forms of long thin protuberances whose terminal buds are thickened onion-like. Your strong appearing, round, smooth stem is dark green, rarely colored to gray- green and has the basic rough leaf sheaths. The tapered, terminal spikelets are 4-8 mm long and no wider than 4mm. They are usually only 3 - to 7- flowered. The lower glume is almost as long as the brownish -red color of spikelets and includes the stems completely. Every single flower has three scars and 4-6 Perigonborsten that are only slightly shorter than the fruit.