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Eleocharis fistulosa

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Name

Identification
Eleocharis acutangula (Roxb.) Schult. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by D.J. Rosen, Scirpus acutangulus Roxb. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by D.J. Rosen, Eleocharis fistulosa Schult. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by C.B.Clarke,
Related name
  • Eleocharis decoriglumis
  • Eleocharis acutangula
  • Eleocharis mutata
  • Eleocharis fistulosa
  • Scirpus obtuse-trigonus
  • Eleocharis austro-caledonica
  • Eleocharis spiralis
  • Limnochloa obtusitrigona
  • Cyperus not on sheet
  • Scirpus spiralis
  • Eleocharis obtusetrigona
  • Scirpus acutangulus

Flora

Entry for ELEOCHARIS fistulosa Link [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
ELEOCHARIS fistulosa Link [family CYPERACEAE], Jahrb. iii. 78 Obs.;—C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 626.
Scirpus fistulosus Poiret [family CYPERACEAE], in Lam. Encyc. vi. 749.
Heleocharis fistulosa Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxvi. 472.
Information
stoloniferous; stem 1–3 ft. long, acutely triquetrous at the top; spikelet nearly 1 in. by 1/8– 1/5 in., hardly broader than the stem, pale-coloured; glumes obovate, obtuse, without keel, with numerous fine lines on the back; bristles 6 (i.e. 3 sepals, 3 petals), as long as the nut, linear, retrorse-scabrous, rusty-red; style 3-fid, or sometimes according to authors 2-fid; nut 1/2 as long as the glume, obovoid, trigonous with the anticous angle flattened, longitudinally striate cancellate (i.e. the external cells are arranged in 24–30 vertical series); style-base scarcely 1/3 the length of the nut, ovoid. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa, Asia and Australia.
Distribution
COAST REGION Komgha Div.; Kei River, Flanagan, 982! No South African specimen at Kew.
Notes
Boeckeler unites with this species E. mutata, R. Br., abundant in Tropical America; and which certainly differs very slightly. If this view be taken the distribution area is widened.

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