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Carex vesicaria

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Name

Identification
Carex vesicaria L. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Lindeberg, C.J., Carex stenolepis Less. ex Steud. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Carex exsiccata
  • Carex stenolepis
  • Carex indet.
  • Carex ochroleuca
  • Carex inflata
  • Carex sp.
  • Carex monile
  • Carex vesicaria
Common name
  • Carex vésiculeux, Flora of North America Vol. 23

Flora

Entry for CAREX clavata Thunb. [family CYPERACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 7, page 149, (1900) Author: (By C. B. CLARKE.)
Names
CAREX clavata Thunb. [family CYPERACEAE], Prod. 14;—Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 90; Schkuhr, Riedgr. ii. 55; Kunze, Suppl. Riedgr. 67, t. 17; Nees in Linnæa, vii. 535; x. 204; Kunth, Enum. ii. 495; Boeck. in Linnæa, xli. 298.
CAREX vesicaria Thunb. [family CYPERACEAE], Prod. 14; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 90, not of Linn.
CAREX lutensis Kunth [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 487.
CAREX macrocystis Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], Cyp. Novae, i. 50 (?).
Information
glabrous; stems 2–4 ft. long; stout, triquetrous at the top, rough; leaves 1–2 ft. long, 1/4– 1/3 (sometimes more than 1/2) in. broad; spikes 4–6, lower distant, suberect; bracts very long; peduncles short, lowest sometimes 3 in. long, but not much exserted; terminal spike (sometimes the next also) male, bright-brown, sometimes with a few females at the top; female spikes 1–2 1/2 by 1/3 in., dense; female glumes ovate; arista reaching nearly to the top of the beak; utricles (including beak) 1/5 in. long, ellipsoid, narrowed rather suddenly into the beak, striated, glabrous, when young greenish, in fruit sometimes deflexed; beak about 1/4 the length of the utricle, deeply bifid into nearly linear teeth; nut 1/10 in. long, obovoid, triquetrous, dark-brown, nearly filling the utricle. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Malmesbury Div.; Groene Kloof, below 500 ft., Drège! Cape Div.; between the Lions Head and Table Mountain, Burchell, 275! by the river leading from Table Mountain, Milne, 239! Table Mountain, 800 ft., Bolus, 7939! Simons Bay, MacGillivray, 424! Wright! Wynberg, Wallich! Paarl Div.; Paarl Mountains, 1000–2000 ft., Drège, 1563! Port Elizabeth Div.; common along the coast, E.S.C.A. Herb., 174! Bathurst Div.; near Theopolis, Burchell, 4137! at the source of the Kasuga River, Burchell, 3904!KALAHARI REGION Orange Free State, Buchanan, 139!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg, Pappe, 77! Harvey, 346! 365! Thom, 894! R. Brown! Drège, 4367!
Notes
No authentic example of C. macrocystis, Boeck., has been seen. As the utricle was 1/4 in. long, it must either have been C. clavata, Thunb., or some entirely new large species, which latter alternative is improbable, as Boeckeler found his C. macrocystis in the collection of Ecklon and Zeyher.

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