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Carex retrorsa

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Name

Identification
Carex retrorsa Schweinitz [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Schwein., 1824
Related name
  • Carex retrorsa
  • Carex sp.
Common name
  • Carex réfléchi, Flora of North America Vol. 23

Flora

Entry for CAREX cognata 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
CAREX cognata Kunth [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 502;—Boeck. in Linnæa, xli. 299.
CAREX retrorsa Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, x. 204, not of Schweinitz.
CAREX Pseudocyperus Boott var. [family CYPERACEAE], Carex, iv. 141.
Information
stem 3 ft., top triquetrous scabrous; leaves 1–2 1/2 ft. long, 1/3– 1/2 in. broad, midrib sharply projecting beneath, tissue lax transversely lineate; spikes about 7, pale, close together near the top of the stem, sessile, erect (lowest 1 in. distant), topmost wholly male (or occasionally female at the top); spikes in fruit 1 1/2 by nearly 1/3 in., dense; glumes from near middle of spike, lanceolate, green with white margins, the hispid arista long but hardly reaching the top of the utricle; utricles spreading, not deflexed, ovoid-subglobose, suddenly narrowed into a slender beak much shorter than the utricle, with about 12 strong nerves, tissue thin shining glabrous; beak smooth with 2 rather long spreading smooth linear teeth; nut smaller than the glume, trigonous, dull-brown, obovoid hardly longer than broad. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Swellendam and George, Mund fide Nees.EASTERN REGION Delagoa Bay; Junod, 414.
Notes
This differs from C. Pseudo-cyperus, Linn., by the broader utricles and nuts; it is very near C. sphærogyne, Baker (from Madagascar), which has narrower leaves.

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