Summary[edit] Description: English: Ficinia nodosa (Rottb.) Goetgh. et al. - Grootrivier Lagoon, Nature's Valley, South Africa. Date: January 2019. Source: Own work. Author: Karen Pagel.
Summary[edit] Description: Native, cool season, perennial sedge with stems 15–100 cm tall and 1–2 mm diam., spread along relatively stout rhizomes. Leaves are reduced to orange-brown sheaths. Flowerheads are dense globose or hemispherical heads 7–20 mm diam., with numerous spikelets; involucral bract rigid, pungent and exceeding the flowerhead. Glumes are 2–2.5 mm long and red-brown. Stamens 3. Style 3-fid. Nut plano-convex to unequally trigonous, smooth, glossy and dark brown to black. Flowering: spring. Widespread on coastal sand, beside sea and lakes. Previously known as Isolepis nodosa, but more closely related to the Ficinia spp. of southern Africa, which mostly have a more conspicuous disc below the nut. Date: 30 December 2007, 11:14. Source: Ficinia nodosa rhizomes1. Author: Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia. Camera location31° 25′ 41.36″ S, 152° 52′ 02.24″ EView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth-31.428155; 152.867289.
Summary[edit] Description: Native, cool season, perennial sedge with stems 15–100 cm tall and 1–2 mm diam., spread along relatively stout rhizomes. Leaves are reduced to orange-brown sheaths. Flowerheads are dense globose or hemispherical heads 7–20 mm diam., with numerous spikelets; involucral bract rigid, pungent and exceeding the flowerhead. Glumes are 2–2.5 mm long and red-brown. Stamens 3. Style 3-fid. Nut plano-convex to unequally trigonous, smooth, glossy and dark brown to black. Flowering: spring. Widespread on coastal sand, beside sea and lakes. Previously known as Isolepis nodosa, but more closely related to the Ficinia spp. of southern Africa, which mostly have a more conspicuous disc below the nut. Date: 10 September 2008, 13:15. Source: Ficinia nodosa flowerhead3. Author: Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia. Camera location31° 25′ 41.36″ S, 152° 52′ 02.24″ EView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth-31.428155; 152.867289.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Pīngao (Ficinia spiralis) near Portobello/Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand. Date: 24 December 2014, 12:07:35. Source: Own work. Author: MurielBendel.
Summary[edit] Description: Native, cool season, perennial sedge with stems 15–100 cm tall and 1–2 mm diam., spread along relatively stout rhizomes. Leaves are reduced to orange-brown sheaths. Flowerheads are dense globose or hemispherical heads 7–20 mm diam., with numerous spikelets; involucral bract rigid, pungent and exceeding the flowerhead. Glumes are 2–2.5 mm long and red-brown. Stamens 3. Style 3-fid. Nut plano-convex to unequally trigonous, smooth, glossy and dark brown to black. Flowering: spring. Widespread on coastal sand, beside sea and lakes. Previously known as Isolepis nodosa, but more closely related to the Ficinia spp. of southern Africa, which mostly have a more conspicuous disc below the nut. Date: 10 September 2008, 13:17. Source: Ficinia nodosa plant5. Author: Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia. Camera location31° 25′ 41.36″ S, 152° 52′ 02.24″ EView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth-31.428155; 152.867289.
Summary[edit] Description: Native, cool season, perennial sedge with stems 15–100 cm tall and 1–2 mm diam., spread along relatively stout rhizomes. Leaves are reduced to orange-brown sheaths. Flowerheads are dense globose or hemispherical heads 7–20 mm diam., with numerous spikelets; involucral bract rigid, pungent and exceeding the flowerhead. Glumes are 2–2.5 mm long and red-brown. Stamens 3. Style 3-fid. Nut plano-convex to unequally trigonous, smooth, glossy and dark brown to black. Flowering: spring. Widespread on coastal sand, beside sea and lakes. Previously known as Isolepis nodosa, but more closely related to the Ficinia spp. of southern Africa, which mostly have a more conspicuous disc below the nut. Date: 10 September 2008, 13:15. Source: Ficinia nodosa flowerhead2. Author: Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia. Camera location31° 25′ 41.36″ S, 152° 52′ 02.24″ EView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth-31.428155; 152.867289.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Habitat of Pīngao (Ficinia spiralis) on Kaitorete Spit, South Island, New Zealand. Date: 17 December 2014, 12:46:41. Source: Own work. Author: MurielBendel.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Habitat of Pīngao (Ficinia spiralis) on Kaitorete Spit, South Island, New Zealand. Date: 17 December 2014, 12:45:47. Source: Own work. Author: MurielBendel.