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Scirpus littoralis

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Identification
Scirpus littoralis Schrad. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Clarke, C.B., Schoenoplectus litoralis (Schrad.) Palla [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Scirpus littoralis
  • Schoenoplectus littoralis
  • Scirpus pterolepis
  • Scirpus lacustris
  • Schoenoplectus litoralis

Flora

Entry for SCIRPUS littoralis Schrad. [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 littoralis Schrad. [family CYPERACEAE], Fl. Germ. i. 142, t. 5, fig. 7;—Kunth, Enum. ii. 166; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 659.
SCIRPUS subulatus Vahl [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 268; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxvi. 715.
SCIRPUS triqueter Gren. et Godr. [family CYPERACEAE], Fl. France, iii. 373; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxvi 716; not of Linn.
SCIRPUS Pterolepis Kunth [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 166
Pterolepis scirpoides Schrad. [family ], Anal. Fl. Cap. 30.
Malacochæte Pterolepis Nees [family ], in Linnæa, ix. 292; x. 184.
Information
glabrous except the glumes; rhizome horizontal; stems 1 1/2–4 ft. long, trigonous at the top; leaves short or 0; lowest bract as though a continuation of the stem, 1–3 in. long; umbel lateral, usually compound; spikelets solitary, 1/2 by 1/8– 1/6 in., pale brown; glumes ovate, tip notched thinly ciliate with often a small mucro in the notch; hypogynous bristles 4–7, as long as the nut, pale brown, wide or almost petaloid, feathery by reason of many multicellular hairs; stamens 3; anthers linear-oblong, crested; nut 1/2 as long as the glume, obovoid, much dorsally compressed, smooth, pale or finally brown; style linear, nearly as long as the nut, branches 2 longer than the style. null
Range
Throughout the warmer parts of the Old World, from the Atlantic to New Caledonia.
Distribution
COAST REGION Cape Div.; Salt River, Burchell, 694! Uitenhage Div.; Zwartkops River, below 100 ft., Drège! Harvey, 13!EASTERN REGION Natal; salt marshes at the mouth of the Umlaas River, Krauss, 33! Umgeni River, in a swamp, 50 ft., Wood, 4009!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Drège, 2451! 7401! Verreaux! Bolus! Zeyher, 1771!WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand; near the mouth of the Orange River, below 500 ft., Drège, 2465!

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