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Cyperus dactyliformis

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Identification
Cyperus dactyliformis Boeckeler [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Vorster, P. ?, Mariscus solidus (Kunth) Vorster [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Cyperus toisensis
  • Cyperus thunbergii
  • Cyperus dactyliformis
  • Mariscus solidus
  • Cyperus congestus
  • Cyperus involutus
  • Mariscus involutus
  • Mariscus gueinzii

Flora

Entry for MARISCUS Owani 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
MARISCUS Owani C. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE], in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 590
Cyperus ligularis Thunb. [family CYPERACEAE], Prod. 18; Fl.Cap. ed. Schult. 100; not of Linn.
Cyperus dactyliformis Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxvi. 329 partly.
Cyperus tabularis Nees var. β major [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, x. 137, according to Boeck.
Cyperus Owani Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in hb. Schinz ex Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 590, scarcely in Flora, 1878, 29.
Information
umbel once-compound or imperfectly twice-compound; spikes loose; spikelets spreading or deflexed; otherwise as M. riparius and M. Grantii. null
Range
Also in Madagascar.
Distribution
COAST REGION Albany Div.; near the Kowie River, MacOwan, 669 partly! Komgha Div.; near Komgha, Flanagan, 921!EASTERN REGION Natal; near Sydenham, 300 ft., Wood, 4004!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Drège, 4411! Ecklon and Zeyher, 131! Thunberg.
Notes
The loose spreading spikelets look very unlike the heads of M. riparius with crowded suberect spikelets; but here, again, I can find no difference in glumes, rhachilla, nut, style, or any trustworthy character. C. Owani, Boeck. in Flora, 1878, 29, as to MacOwan, n. 496b. in herb. Kew, I sort it with M. umbilensis.

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