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Carex vulpina

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Name

Identification
Carex vulpina L. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Carex arenaria L. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by A. C. Jermy,
Related name
  • Carex tenuiflora
  • Carex spicata
  • Carex arenaria
  • Carex sp.
  • Carex conjuncta
  • Carex vulpina
  • Carex schlechteri

Flora

Entry for CAREX glomerata 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 glomerata Thunb. [family CYPERACEAE], Prod. 14;—Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 90; Nees in Linnæa, vii. 534; x. 203; Kunth, Enum. ii. 384; Boott, Carex, ii. 81, t. 222; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxix. 59 partly (i.e. the African plant and synon.); not of Schkuhr nor of Host.
CAREX vulpina Wahl. var. β [family CYPERACEAE], in Act. Holm. 1803, 144.
Information
glabrous; rhizome 1–1 1/2 in. long, horizontal, woody; stems 10–20 in. long, smooth or nearly so on the 3 angles at the top; leaves often 3/4 the length of the stem, 1/8– 1/6 in. broad; the interrupted compound spike 1 by 1/3– 1/2 in. (in fruit); lowest bract 1/4– 3/4 in. long, setaceous, spreading, rarely overtopping the inflorescence; spikes ovoid, many bisexual, female at the base, male at the top; female glumes ovate, acuminate or short-mucronate, brown; style 2-fid; utricle ovate, acuminate, plane-convex, green then chestnut, moderately nerved on both faces; beak short, bifid, with a green scabrous margin at the base; nut flat, ovoid truncate, much shorter than the utricle. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Riversdale Div.; Great Vals River, Burchell, 6554! Albany Div.; near Grahamstown, MacOwan! Uitenhage Div.; Zwartkops River, Ecklon and Zeyher, 187!KALAHARI REGION Orange Free State, Buchanan, 97!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Verreaux!
Notes
This species differs little from C. divisa; it is rather larger, with a larger inflorescence; the chief obvious difference is the larger, brighter-chestnut, green-margined utricle, which also separates C. glomerata from the closely allied C. muricata, Linn., which has yellow-brown utricles and the spike more interrupted. As to the synonymy given above, it refers at least partly to the following species.

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