Schoenoplectus

Lakeshore Bulrush ( Schoenoplectus lacustris ); right

Bulrushes ( Schoenoplectus ), also pond cornices, Seebinsen or Flechtbinsen, are a cosmopolitan genus of sour grass plants. Occasionally they were doing also included in the genus Scirpus. The name Schoenoplectus is derived from the Greek schoinos = Rush and plektos = braided.

Features

Be bulrushes to over 250 (400) cm high. The stem is down around, above, either oval or triangular and leafless. At the top he wears a seemingly pendant Spirre of brown spikelets - a husk appears as a "continuation" of the stem. The color of the stem varies between fresh green and gray-green.

Occurrence

Bulrushes usually grow in damp places, especially on the banks of water bodies. The Ordinary Teichbinse example forms in ideal typical zoned lakes own plant community ( Scirpetum lacustris ) in the form of vineyards, the lake side is so in quite deep water, connect to reed beds. On some waters also stands dominated without other large reedbeds and riede be pronounced. Several Schoenoplectus species are salt tolerant and colonize corresponding saline waters near the coast or inland salt. The above Central European species with the exception of Schoenoplectus lacustris scattered to very rare and are on the Red List. The species S. litoralis is a very common marsh plant, the entire Paläotropis who settled Australis and the Mediterranean - oriental room and since around 1985 is found in Germany in the Palatinate in a gravel pit east of Jockgrim as locally naturalized neophyte.

Economic use

In the Neolithic platted people, like today from the rush mats and baskets. Bulrushes are also used in biological wastewater treatment plants.

Types (selection)

The Group includes about 60 species of the genus; in Central Europe the following species and hybrids occur:

  • Lakeshore Bulrush, Schoenoplectus lacustris (L.) Palla
  • Salt Pond bulrush, Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani (CC Gmel ) Palla
  • Beach - Teichbinse, Schoenoplectus litoralis ( Schrad. ) Palla
  • Stachelspitzige Teichbinse, Schoenoplectus mucronatus (L.) Palla
  • Small triangular Teichbinse, Schoenoplectus pungens ( Vahl ) Palla
  • Triangular Teichbinse, Schoenoplectus triqueter (L.) Palla
  • Low Teichbinse, Schoenoplectus supinus (L.) Palla
  • Keeled pond rush, Schoenoplectus × carinatus ( Sm ) Palla ( intersection of S. lacustris and S. triqueter )
  • Keeled Salt Pond rush, Schoenoplectus × kuekenthalianus (boy) DH Kent (Cross between S. and S. tabernaemontani triqueter )

In Europe comes beyond it:

  • Schoenoplectus juncoides ( Roxb. ) Palla ( syn. Scirpus juncoides Roxb; Scoenoplectiella juncoides ( Roxb. ) Lye. ), Origin: tropical and subtropical Asia, North America, Australia, naturalized in rice fields in Portugal
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