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Cyperus globosus

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Name

Identification
Cyperus flavidus Retz. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Cyperus globosus All. [family CYPERACEAE ]
Related name
  • Cyperus cruentus
  • Cyperus vulgaris
  • Cyperus humiffussus
  • Cyperus nilagiricus
  • Cyperus fuscus
  • Cyperus globosus
  • Pycreus globosus
  • Mariscus cruentus
  • Cyperus curvatus
  • Cyperus conglomeratus
  • Cyperus junghuhnii
  • Cyperus flavidus

Flora

Entry for PYCREUS betschuanus 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 betschuanus C. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE], in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr., v. 535
Cyperus betschuanus Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xi. 406.
Cyperus globosus C. B. Clarke var. nilagirica [family CYPERACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 49.
Information
glabrous; stolons horizontal, slender, clothed by very pale brown scales 1/2 in. long; stems 6–14 in. long, slender; leaves all near the base of the stem, 2/3 the length of the stem, 1/10 in. broad; umbel 1/2–2 1/4 in. broad, simple, rays 3–5; bracts 3, lowest 2–4 in. long, similar to the leaves; spikes of 4–8 shortly-spicate spikelets, ebracteate; spikelets 1/2 by 1/12 in., much compressed, hard, shining, 22-nutted, dark chestnut-brown; glumes close-packed, ovate, boat-shaped, obtuse; keel of fertile glume, paler yellowish, not green; style-branches 2; nut obovoid, scarcely 1/2 the length of the glume, outermost cells subquadrate. null
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West; Hay Div., between the Asbestos Mountains and Witte Water, Burchell, 2081! Transvaal; Houtbosh, Rehmann! Bechuanaland, 4000 ft., Marloth, 1027!
Notes
Some dark chestnut-brown Indian mountain forms of P. globosus, Reichb., resemble the present plant very closely, but never show its slender stolons.

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