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Cyperus elegantulus

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Identification
Isotype of Cyperus atronitens Hochst. ex A.Rich. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Cyperus elegantulus Steud. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Cyperus ischnocormus
  • Cyperus elegantulus
  • Cyperus atronitens
  • Pycreus elegantulus

Flora

Entry for PYCREUS elegantulus 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
PYCREUS elegantulus C. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE], in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 536
Cyperus atronitens Hochst. [family CYPERACEAE], in Flora, 1841, Band 1, Intell. 20; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxv. 456.
Cyperus elegantulus Steud. [family CYPERACEAE], in Flora, 1842, 583.
Information
glabrous; stems tufted on a very short rhizome, 8–24 in. long, slender or medium; leaves all near the base of the stem, 2/3 its length, 1/6 in. broad where the stem is medium, usually much narrower, sometimes filiform; umbel 2–3 in. in diam., dense or lax, or with few or only 1 spike; bracts 3, lowest 2–8 in. long, similar to the leaves; spikes of 4–8 closely-spiked spikelets, ebracteate; spikelets 1/4– 1/3 by 1/12– 1/10 in., much compressed, 6–10-nutted; glumes ovate, boat-shaped, obtuse, black chestnut-brown with prominent green or yellowish keel, in fruit scarcely imbricate; style-branches 2; nut ellipsoid, 2/3 the length of the glume, brown, closely and regularly marked by raised dots. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa, and from Mexico to Peru.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; Durban Flat, Buchanan, 50! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 101! 307!

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