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Fuirena pubescens

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Name

Identification
Fuirena pubescens (Poir) Kunth [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Clarke, C.B., Scirpus coerulescens Kuntze [family CYPERACEAE ]
Related name
  • Fuirena obcordata
  • Scirpus pubescens
  • Fuirena pachyrrhiza
  • Scirpus coerulescens
  • Fuirena buchanani
  • Fuirena pubescens
  • Carex pubescens
  • Fuirena macrostachya
  • Fuirena welwitschii

Flora

Entry for FUIRENA pubescens Kunth [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
FUIRENA pubescens Kunth [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 182;—Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxvii. 104 partly; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 665.
Scirpus pubescens Lam. [family CYPERACEAE], Ill. i. 139; Desfont. Fl. Atlant. i. 52, t. 10.
Scirpus ciliaris Pers. [family CYPERACEAE], Syn. i. 69 partly.
Carex pubescens Poir. [family CYPERACEAE], Voy. en Barb. ii. 254, 317.
Carex Poireti Gmel. [family CYPERACEAE], Syst. Nat. i. 140.
Isolepis pubescens Roem. et Schultes [family CYPERACEAE], Syst. ii. 118, not of Mant. 67.
Information
more or less hairy (as are all the succeeding species); stems 4–16 in. long, triquetrous; leaves 2–6 by 1/10– 1/5 in. flat; inflorescence of 4–20 spikelets, dull (or somewhat glaucous) green-brown, usually in 2 or 3 loose subterminal spikes, but a long-peduncled axillary spike is sometimes added; spikelets 1/2 by 1/6 in., dense, prominently hairy and hispid by the soft excurrent points of the glumes; glumes frequently appearing spirally 4–5-ranked; anthers linear-oblong, hardly crested; hypogynous bristles 0, or minute, rudimentary, irregular; nut hardly 2/5 the length of the glume, triquetrous, opaque white, very smooth, with a short microscopically scabrid cone at the top; outermost cells very minute, rectangular, so that the nut bears small nearly round reticulations, which in this species are exceedingly obscure in the ripe nut; style about 1/2 the length of the nut, branches 3 linear, much longer than the style. null
Range
Extends from Portugal and Corsica throughout Africa to the Punjab.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; on a mountain above the spring of Commadagga, Burchell, 3351! Bosch Berg, 4000 ft., MacOwan, 1356!COAST REGION Albany Div.; Grahamstown, 2000 ft., MacOwan, 1271! Cathcart Div.; near Cathcart, 4500 ft., Kuntze, 284!EASTERN REGION Tembuland; Bazeia, 2000 ft., Baur, 286! Griqualand East; banks of streams near Kokstad, 5000 ft., Tyson, 1587!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Pretoria, Rehmann, 4770! Matebe Valley, Holub! Lomati Valley, near Barberton, 4000 ft., Galpin, 1363!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Burke!
Notes
There are many young examples from South Africa, besides those cited here, referred to F. pubescens in herb. Kew, from the inflorescence and general aspect, probably rightly. In the account here given of Cape species of Fuirena, examples so young that nothing can be made out about the nut or petals are in general not cited.

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