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Mondong bulrush (Schoenoplectus litoralis)

Dlium Mondong bulrush (Schoenoplectus litoralis)

Mondong bulrush (Schoenoplectus litoralis) is a species of plant in the Cyperaceae, a perennial, highly variable grass, erect, about 2.5 meters high, clumps of sturdy stems, green, triangular in shape with concave sides and finely serrated side margins.

S. litoralis has sheath leaves and is green to brown in color. Inflorescences appear at the top of the stem in a branching stalk. Flowers are grain-shaped and brown.



This plant grows in wetlands, marshes, ditches, ponds, lake shores, often dominant. Sometimes also in flooded rice fields, lowland rice fields, and tidal rice fields.

The stems are used for making mats, sacks of rice and also for coffers. The stems are harvested, sorted and dried in the sun and softened. The rods are also used as ropes in shops and traditional markets.

TAXON

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Poales
Family: Cyperaceae
Subfamily: Cyperoideae
Tribe: Fuireneae
Genus: Schoenoplectus (Rchb.) Palla in Verh. K. K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 38(Sitzungsber.): 49 (1888)
Species: Schoenoplectus litoralis (Schrad.) Palla in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 10: 299 (1888)
Subspecies: Schoenoplectus litoralis subsp. kasachstanicus (Dobrochot.) Soják, Schoenoplectus litoralis subsp. litoralis

HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS

Eleogiton litoralis (Schrad.) Fourr. in Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, n.s., 17: 174 (1869)
Heleogiton litorale (Schrad.) Rchb. in J.C.Mössler, Handb. Gewächsk., ed. 2. 3: 1808 (1830)
Malacochaete litoralis (Schrad.) Nees in Linnaea 9: 292 (1834)
Pterolepis litoralis (Schrad.) M.R.Almeida in Fl. Maharashtra 5B: 385 (2009)
Scirpus litoralis Schrad. in Fl. Germ. 1: 142 (1806)
Scirpus triqueter subsp. littoralis (Schrad.) Bonnier & Layens in Tabl. Syn. Pl. Vasc. France: 326 (1894)

PUBLICATIONS

Akoègninou, A., van der Burg, W.J. & van der Maesen, L.J.G. (eds.) (2006). Flore Analytique du Bénin: 1-1034. Backhuys Publishers.

Audru, J., Cesar, J. & Lebrun, J.-P. (1993). Les Plantes Vasculaires de la République de Djibouti. Flore Illustrée 2(2): 433-968. CIRAD, Départerment d'Elevage et de Médecine vétérinaire, Djibouti.

Castroviejo, S. & al. (eds.) (2008). Flora Iberica 18: 1-420. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC, Madrid.

Dobignard, D. & Chatelain, C. (2010). Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du nord 1: 1-455. Éditions des conservatoire et jardin botaniques, Genève.

Egorova, T. (2005). Synopsis taxonomica generis Schoenoplectus (Reichenb.) Palla (Cyperaceae) florae Eurasiae borealis. Novosti Sistematiki Vysshikh Rastenii 37: 49-79.

Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.

Govaerts, R. & Simpson, D.A. (2007). World Checklist of Cyperaceae. Sedges: 1-765. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Govaerts, R. (2004). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-54382. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Hassler, M. & Muer, T. (2022). Flora Germanica: alle Farn- und Blütenpflanzen Deutschlands in Text und Bild 1: 1-864. Verlag Regionalkultur, Uberstadt-Weiher.

Komiljon, T., Natalya, B., Avazbek, B., Dilnoza, A., Ziyoviddin, Y., Deng, T. & Sun, H. (2020). Flora of the Dzhizak Province, Uzbekistan: 1-523. China Forestry Publishing House.

Mosti, S., Raffaelli, M. & Tardelli, M. (2006). A contribution to the flora of Wadi Abdur (Dhofar, Soutern Oman). Webbia; Raccolta de Scritti Botanici 61: 253-260.

Pasha, M.K. & Uddin, S.B. (2013). Dictionary of plant names of Bangladesh, Vasc. Pl.: 1-434. Janokalyan Prokashani, Chittagong, Bangladesh.

Sarder, N.U. & Hassan, M.A. (eds.) (2018). Vascular flora of Chittagong and the Chittagong Hill Tracts 1: 1-897. Bangladesh National Herbarium, Dhaka.

Stepanova, N.Y. (2014). Floristic records in the Southern European Russia (Kuma-Manych depression, Caspian lowland). Botanicheskii Zhurnal. Moscow & Leningrad 99: 1387-1396.

Takhtajan, A.L. (ed.) (2006). Konspekt Flora Kavkaza 2: 1-466. Editio Universitatis Petropolitanae.

Thiombiano, A., Schmidt, M., Dressler, S., Ouédraogo, A., Hahn, K. & Zizka, G. (2012). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Burkina Faso. Boissiera 65: 1-391.

VERNACULAR NAME

Catalan: Jonc d'espigues
English: Mondong bulrush, Shore club-rush
German: Strand-Teichsimse
Hebrew: אגמון החוף
Hungarian: Tengermelléki káka
Indonesia: Mondong
Italian: Lisca costiera
Java: Mondong
Russian: Камыш прибрежный

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