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Fimbristylis squarrosa

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Identification
Fimbristylis caespitosa R.Br. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Charles Baron Clarke, Fimbristylis squarrosa (R.Br.) C.B.Clarke ex Cheeseman [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Charles Baron Clarke,
Related name
  • Fimbristylis hispidula
  • Fimbristylis caespitosa
  • Fimbristylis velata
  • Fimbristylis comata
  • Fimbristylis aestivalis
  • Fimbristylis propinqua
  • Fimbristylis squarrosa
  • Abildgaardia schoenoides
  • Ascolepis tenuior

Flora

Entry for FIMBRISTYLIS squarrosa Vahl [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
FIMBRISTYLIS squarrosa Vahl [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 289;—Kunth, Enum. ii. 224; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxvii. 10; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 635.
FIMBRISTYLIS Ecklonii Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, ix. 290, x. 145; Kunth, Enum. ii. 226.
Scirpus squarrosus Poir. [family CYPERACEAE], Encyc. Suppl. v. 100, not of Linn.
Information
annual, puberulous or nearly glabrous; stem 2–8 in. long; leaves 1/2– 3/4 the length of the stem, 1/16 in. broad; umbel usually compound; bracts 3–4, often as long as the umbel, similar to the leaves; spikelets all pedicelled, 1/5 by 1/12 in., dense; glumes elliptic, keeled, dusky, the 3 nerves coalescing into a curved excurrent mucro; stamens usually 2; style small, hairy; branches 2; nut 1/3 as long as the glume, obovoid, biconvex, pale straw-colour, smooth; hairs 10–18, simple, white, 1/2– 2/3 the length of the nut, hanging from the style-base closely round the nut, falling off with the deciduous style. null
Range
In all tropical and warm-temperate regions.
Distribution
COAST REGION Clanwilliam Div.; Doorn River, below 1000 ft., Drège! Ebenezer, near the Oliphants River, below 100 ft., Drège!WESTERN REGION Clanwilliam Div.; near the Oliphants River, below 1000 ft., Zeyher, 1779 partly! Ecklon and Zeyher!

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