Literature for Machaerina mariscoides Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. Literature for Machaerina mariscoides subsp. mariscoides Wagner et al., 1990, 1999; Lorence & Wagner, 2019. Literature for Machaerina mariscoides subsp. meyenii Wagner et al., 1990, 1999.
Cyperaceae -- The Sedge Family	Bibliography
Machaerina mariscoides

General Information
Distribution	Known from New Guinea and the Solomon Islands to the Marianas, Caroline, Marquesas, Society, and Hawaiian Islands
Habit	Perennials with short rhizomes clothed with pale reddish brown scales; culms loosely tufted, 45-90 cm tall, 3.5-4 mm in diam., trigonous but with 1 side much narrower, scabrid.
Leaves	Leaves grayish green, basal or nearly so, equitant, coriaceous, the upper ones longer than the culm, apex subacute; sheaths reddish brown.
Flowers	Inflorescence a compound panicle, oblong in outline, 15-40 cm long, bearing 5-6 partial panicles, lower bracts longer than the inflorescence, the panicle branches 5-6 together, the longer ones up to 8 cm long; spikelets in clusters of 2-5, ovoid-turbinate in fruit, 3-5 mm long; glumes 3-6, rusty brown, the uppermost fertile, narrowly ovate, ca. 4-5 mm long, keeled, margins chartaceous, ciliolate; perianth absent; stamens 3; style 3-cleft, style base subulate, ca. 1 mm long, pubescent.
Fruit	Achenes amber brown, glossy, broadly ovoid to subglobose, 2-4 mm long, 1-1.5 mm in diam., obscurely trigonous, subsessile.
Contributor	Warren Wagner