FIGURE 1 in Revision of the genus Costularia (Cyperaceae: Schoeneae) for the flora of the Seychelles, including the rediscovery and resurrection of a rare endemic species

FIGURE 1. Costularia xipholepis (all photos by B. Senterre, mostly on the living population at Copolia: B. Senterre & E. Henriette 7101). A. Part of a clump showing many stems branching from one original plant; B. Closer view showing stem branching and distichous basal leaves; C. Basal leaf-sheath; D. Cauline leaf-sheath; E. Dissected stem (after removing the basal dead leaves) showing the insertion of the inflorescence below the green basal leaves; F. Developing nutlet; G. Fully ripe nutlet (seen only in B. Senterre & E. Henriette 7117) showing basal stipe and hairy beak; H. Mature stamens in flowering spikelets (seen only in B. Senterre 6589); I. Maturing spikelets showing persistent rachilla and deciduous glumes; J. Dissected spikelet showing the male flower below the terminal hermaphrodite flower still partly in its glume.