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Eleogiton rubicundus

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Identification
Eleogiton rubicundus Nees [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Reid, C., Scirpus rubicundus (Nees) Parl. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Eleogiton rubicundus
  • Scirpus rubicundus

Flora

Entry for SCIRPUS flaccifolius Steud. [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
SCIRPUS flaccifolius Steud. [family CYPERACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 83 char. emended
SCIRPUS digitatus Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxvi. 691.
Isolepis digitata Schrad. [family CYPERACEAE], Anal. Fl. Cap. 20; Kunth, Enum. ii. 202.
Isolepis dubia Kunth [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 216.
Isolepis dissoluta Kunth [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 219.
Schœnus aggregatus Spreng. [family ], in Flora, 1829, i. Beil. 12, not of Thunb.
Eleogiton digitatus Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, ix. 291; x. 163.
Eleogiton dissolutus Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, ix. 291.
Eleogiton rubicundus Nees var. β [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, x. 164, fide Boeck.
Eleogiton longifolius Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, ix. 291; x. 164.
Eleocharis flexifolia Reichenb. ex C. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE], in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 622.
Information
glabrous; stems 6–20 in. long, clustered, weak, thickened; oblong at the base by the leaf-sheaths, with one head of 4–1 spikelets; leaves often as long as the stem, linear, very weak, flaccid; bracts 1–3, up to 1/6 in. long, ovate, membranous; spikelets up to 1/2 by 1/6 in., but often much shorter, dense with many flowers, terete, pale brown; glumes ovate, obtuse, thin, keel stout, green, excurrent as a bristle; hypogynous bristles 0; stamens 3; nut 1/2 the length of the glume, broad-oblong, trigonous, pyramidal at the top, brown, smooth; style 1/2 the length of the nut, branches 3 long, linear. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Worcester Div; Dutoits Kloof, 2000–3000 ft., Drège! Drakenstein Mountains, 1000–2000 ft., Drège! and without precise locality, Zeyher! Caledon Div.; submersed in the Palmiet River, Houw Hoek Mountains, Burchell, 8077! Riversdale Div.; at the waterfall in “Valley Rivers Poort,” near Kampsche Berg, Burchell, 7053!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Zeyher, 338! Ecklon and Zeyher, 57.
Notes
Steudel and Nees placed their “ flaccifolius ” in Sect. Eleogiton, to which they assign a 2-fid style. As their descriptions are not only insufficient, but radically misleading, some will prefer to call this plant S. digitatus, Boeck.

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