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Cyperus exaltatus

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Identification
Cyperus exaltatus Retz. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Clarke, C.B.,
Related name
  • Cyperus oryzeticola
  • Cyperus exaltatus
  • Cyperus altus
  • Cyperus strigosus
  • Cyperus oatesii
  • Cyperus digitatus
  • Cyperus maritimus
  • Cyperus ornatus
  • Cyperus venustus
Common name
  • gwaigwaya (auctt.) karan masallachin kogi (JMD) mashin kogi = spears of the stream (JMD) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kajiji nguru (JMD) (NIGERIA, ARABIC-SHUWA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • gurguhọ (JMD) wurguhọ (JMD) (NIGERIA, FULA-FULFULDE (Nigeria)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for CYPERUS fastigiatus Rottb. [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
CYPERUS fastigiatus Rottb. [family CYPERACEAE], Descr. et Ic. 32, t. 7, fig. 2;—Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxvi. 311; cf. R. Br. Prod. 217 in Obs.
CYPERUS fastigiosus Linn. [family CYPERACEAE], Syst. Nat. ed. Gmelin, vii. 134.
CYPERUS flabellaris Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, vii. 519, x. 137; Kunth, Enum. ii. 69.
CYPERUS exaltatus Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Wight, Contrib. 84 partly, not of Retz.
CYPERUS egregius Kunth [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 69; Krauss in Flora, 1845, 754.
CYPERUS venustus Kunth [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 68, as to the Cape plant.
CYPERUS semiangulatus Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxviii. 367.
Papyrus venustus Nees [family ], in Linnæa, x. 138 partly, i.e. plant only.
Information
glabrous; stolons 0; stem 2–3 ft. long, rather stout, triangular at the top, smooth; leaves often as long as the stem, 1/4– 1/3 in. broad; umbel 6–10 in. in diam.; bracts 3–4, similar to the leaves, lowest often 12–18 in. long; umbellules (secondary umbels) nearly or quite bractless; spikes elongate, often 1 1/2 in. long, of 36 spikelets, nodding, more or less corymbosely compound at the base; spikelets (even in fruit) suberect, 1/3 by 1/16– 1/12 in., 8–20-flowered, compressed, brown; wings of rhachilla yellow, lanceolate, acute; soon disarticulate, caducous; glumes closely imbricate, ovate, acute, 5–7-nerved, hardly keeled; stamens 3; anthers linear-oblong, connective somewhat produced in a short triangle; nut hardly 2/5 the length of the glume, triangular; oblong-ellipsoid, pyramidal-topped, pale brown; style as long as the nut, branches 3 linear, longish. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Aliwal North Div.; Kraai River, 4500 ft., Drège!COAST REGION Clanwilliam Div.; Wupperthal, Drège, 7387! Cape Div.; near Cape Town, below 100 ft., Bolus, 4815! Paarl Div.; Berg River, below 500 ft., Drège! Stellenbosch Div.; between Stellenbosch and Somerset West, below 1000 ft., Drège! Riversdale Div.; Great Vals River, Burchell, 6533! Uitenhage Div., Ecklon and Zeyher, 437! Albany Div.; near Grahamstown, 1000–2000 ft., Drège! Bothas Hill, 2000 ft., MacOwan, 1270! King Williamstown Div.; near Toise River Station, 3700 ft., Kuntze, 281! Queenstown Div.; Shiloh, 3500 ft., Baur, 888! 898!EASTERN REGION Transkei; between Gekau and the Bashee River, 1000–2000 ft., Drège. Natal; Umlaas River, Krauss, 65! 161! Nottingham, Buchanan, 135! Durban Flat, Drège, 4412! Wood, 4017! 4088! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 91! 317!KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West; by the Vaal River, Burchell, 1773! Orange Free State; near Winburg, Buchanan, 241! Transvaal; Schoon Spruit, near Klerksdorp, Nelson, 57! Hooge Veld, between Porter and Trigards Fontein, Rehmann, 6664!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Drège, 1600! 7386! Zeyher, 1754! 4377! Ecklon and Zeyher, 22! Wallich!

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