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Cyperus distichophyllus

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Identification
Cyperus distichophyllus Steud. [family CYPERACEAE ] Pycreus mundtii Nees [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by C.B.Clarke,
Related name
  • Cyperus distichophyllus
  • Cyperus mundtii
  • Cyperus dichrostachyus
  • Cyperus eragrostis
  • Pycreus mundtii

Flora

Entry for PYCREUS Mundtii Nees [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
PYCREUS Mundtii Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, ix. 283; x. 131
Cyperus Mundtii Kunth [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 17; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxv. 448.
Cyperus distichophyllus Steud. [family CYPERACEAE], in Flora, 1842, 582; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxv. 488.
Cyperus turfosus Krauss [family CYPERACEAE], in Flora, 1845, 754.
Cyperus Eragrostis A. Rich. [family CYPERACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 475; Willk. et Lange, Fl. Hisp. i. 138; Kunth, Enum. ii. 7, not of Vahl.
Information
glabrous; rhizome obliquely descending, 2–6 in. long; stem solitary, 8–24 in. long, covered for often half its length by leaf-sheaths; leaves 3–8 in. by 1/6– 1/4 in.; umbel simple or compound or reduced to 1 ․head; bracts 3–4, lowest 2–4 in. long, similar to the leaves; rays few or many; spikes of 3–7 somewhat loosely-spicate spikelets, ebracteate; spikelets 1/2 by 1/8 in., compressed, linear, brown or chestnut-red or pale brown, 20-nutted; glumes ovate, boat-shaped, obtuse, somewhat inflated; style-branches 2; nut obovoid, compressed, biconvex, brown, scarcely half the length of the glume, closely and regularly marked by raised dots. null
Range
Common throughout Africa and the Mascarene Islands, also in Spain.
Distribution
COAST REGION Cape Town, Rehmann, 1779! Port Elizabeth, E.S.C.A. Herb., 235!EASTERN REGION Natal; Umlaas River, Krauss, 415! Camperdown, Rehmann, 7736! Umbilo River, near Pinetown, 800 ft., Wood, 4016! Delagoa Bay, Forbes! Scott!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Marico Dist., Matebe River, Holub, 1897–1990!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Ecklon and Zeyher, 2! Harvey, 383!

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