Schoenoplectiella isolepioides Doweld, 2018

Doweld, Alexander B., 2018, New names of fossil Cyperaceae of Northern Eurasia, Phytotaxa 356 (2), pp. 131-144 : 136

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.356.2.3
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E8EF33-232B-FFC7-7DE7-FF25FF2A76E6
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Schoenoplectiella isolepioides Doweld
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Schoenoplectiella isolepioides Doweld , sp. nov.

— ‘ Scirpus (Schoenoplectus) isolepioides ’ Mai & Walther (1988: 91) , nom. inval. (ICN, Art. 36.2).

Description:—Fruits obovate, small, 1.4–1.8 mm long and 0.9–1.4 mm wide; length/width ratio 1.1–1.3. Basis with 4 bristles, very easily discarded. Fruit surface smooth, glossy, with a minute, indistinct cell sculpturing [after Mai & Walther 1988].

Type:—MMG Mai 671 (Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen, Dresden, Germany)—figured by Mai & Walther 1988: pl. 13, fig. 33.

Geography:—Rippersroda, Plaue, Ilm-Kreis, Thüringen, Germany.

Stratigraphy:—Pliocene.

Fossil status:—Fruits.

IFPNI registration record:— 9B5AD826-3F36-45D2-B18C-7F93C54FF013.

Note:—The fossil-species is most likely compared with extant Schoenoplectiella smithii (Gray) Hayasaka (2012: 183) .