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Carex drakensbergensis

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Name

Identification
Carex drakensbergensis C.B.Clarke [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Carex cognata Kunth [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Carex drakensbergensis
  • Carex cognata

Flora

Entry for CAREX drakensbergensis 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
CAREX drakensbergensis C. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE]
Information
stems 3 ft. long, stout, triquetrous at the top, rough; leaves 1–2 ft. by 1/4– 1/3 in., closely longitudinally striate, not (or most obscurely) transversely lineolate; spikes 5–7, lower distant 3–8 in.; bracts very long; lower peduncles often 3–4 in. long (and top female spike usually distinctly peduncled); terminal spike male, or with a very few females at the top; glumes 1/3 in. long, narrow-lanceolate, pale-brown; female spikes 1–3 by 1/4– 1/3 in., dense, pale-brown in fruit; female glumes elliptic, bright-brown; arista reaching the top of the beak; style 3-fid; utricle 1/6 in. long (beak included), ellipsoid, rather suddenly narrowed, with 1–8 very strong ribs, glabrous; beak 1/3 the length of the utricle or rather more, deeply bifid into almost linear teeth; nut nearly filling the utricle. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Griqualand East; river banks near Kokstad, Haygarth in Herb. Wood, 4201! Natal, Buchanan, 137!KALAHARI REGION Orange Free State; on the Drakens Berg, near Harrismith, Buchanan, 112! 136! Transvaal; Mooi River, near Potchenstroom, Nelson, 72*!

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