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Bulbostylis zeyheri

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Name

Identification
Bulbostylis zeyheri Kunth [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Clarke, C.B., Bulbostylis argenteobrunea C.B.Clarke [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Clarke, C.B.,
Related name
  • Bulbostylis collina
  • Bulbostylis argenteobrunea
  • Bulbostylis contexta
  • Scirpus pretorianus
  • Bulbostylis zeyheri

Flora

Entry for BULBOSTYLIS Zeyheri C. B. Clarke [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
BULBOSTYLIS Zeyheri C. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE], in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 616
Scirpus Zeyheri Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxvi. 752.
Scirpus macrolepis Boeck. ex C. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE], in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 616 partly.
Information
stems 4–10 in. long, tufted on a very short woody rhizome; leaves 1/2 as long as the stem, setaceous; leaf-sheaths weak, with much long white hair in their throats; heads 1–4, each of 2–7 spikelets; rays 1/2–1 1/2 in. long glabrous; spikelets chestnut-brown, with little, or no, long white hair; glumes ovate, acute, minutely pubescent on the sides, white-margined; keel of 3–1 green nerves; style-branches 3; nut oblong, pear-shaped, somewhat narrowed at the top, yellow-brown, transversely lineolate, almost zonate by reason that the outermost cells are rather large and longitudinally oblong. null
Range
Also in South East Tropical Africa.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; Durban Flat, Wood, 4008!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Magalies Berg, Zeyher, 1768! Burke! hills above the Apies River, Rehmann, 4325! Wonderboom Poort, Rehmann, 4478!
Notes
This species is perhaps not distinct from B. Burkei, which has an exactly similar nut. One-headed examples of B. Zeyheri have more long white hairs and margined flower-glumes.

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