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Scirpus capitatus

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Identification
Scirpus capitatus L. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Eleocharis tenuis Link [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Charles Baron Clarke, Eleocharis tenuis (Willd.) Schult. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Elizabeth Fortson Wells,
Related name
  • Scirpus capitatus
  • Eleocharis geniculata
  • Eleocharis capitatus
  • Eleocharis schenckii
  • Eleocharis intermedia
  • Eleocharis ovata
  • Eleocharis tenuis
  • Eleocharis filiculmis
  • Scirpus geniculatus
  • Eleocharis capitata
  • Eleocharis pachystyla
  • Eleocharis obtusa
  • Scirpus indet.
  • Scirpus caribaeus
  • Scirpus ovatus
  • Scirpus intermedius
  • Scirpus sp.

Flora

Entry for ELEOCHARIS capitata R. Br. [family CYPERACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 8, page 264, (1902) Author: (By C. B. Clarke.)
Names
ELEOCHARIS capitata R. Br. [family CYPERACEAE], Prodr. 225. —Kunth, Enum. ii. 150, excl. several syns.; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 553; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 627; and in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 597, incl. var. β; Durand & Schinz, Études Fl. Congo, i. 299; Urban, Symb. Antill. ii. 66.
ELEOCHARIS setacea R. Br. [family CYPERACEAE], Prodr. 225, not the homonymous sp. 224; Kunth, Enum. ii. 156.
Scirpus capitatus [family CYPERACEAE], Linn. herb. partly; Vahl, Enum. ii. 250.
Heleocharis capitata Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxvi. 461; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 124.
Information
A glabrous annual. Stems tufted, 2–8 in. long, in Vogel's examples exceeding a foot. Spikelet 1, ovoid, lanceolate or cylindric, dense, dull greenish-red, usually 1/10– 1/4 in. long, in Vogel's examples 1/2 by 1/6 in. Glumes elliptic, obtuse, caducous from the lowest fertile glume upwards. Hypogynous bristles 7 or fewer, as long as the nut, ferruginous or red-brown, retrorse scabrid, or sometimes much depauperated, occasionally to a 6-notched small cup. Stamens 3–1. Style-branches 2. Nut 2/5 the length of the glume, obovoid, biconvex, smooth, shining black; style-base depressed conic, pallid.
Range
Also in Australia and throughout America.
Distribution
Senegal Upper Guinea Roger! Heudelot, 549! Perrottet, 198! 828! 830!Somaliland Nile Land Revoil, 137!Congo Lower Guinea Smith!Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Bagru River, Mann, 891!Liberia Upper Guinea Cape Palmas, Vogel, 7!
Distribution (external)
Arabia
India
China
Malaya
Polynesia
Notes
The hypogynous bristles, when reduced to a small 6-toothed cup, were called by Nees a disc. Kunth supposed that by “disc” Nees understood the obpyramidal 3- (or several-) toothed gynophore of Scleria and of many species of Fimbristylis. But the two discs are not homologous: the stamens are entirely within the “disc” of Eleocharis, entirely without the disc of Fimbristylis .

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