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Cyperus luzuliformis

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Name

Identification
Cyperus luzuliformis Boeckeler [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Vorster, P., Cyperus macrocarpus (Kunth) Boeckeler [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Cyperus luzuliformis
  • Cyperus macrocarpus

Flora

Entry for MARISCUS luzuliformis 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 luzuliformis C. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE], in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 589
Cyperus indecorus Kunth [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 85.
Cyperus luzuliformis Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxvi. 356.
Information
glabrous; rhizome 0; stem 10 in. long, trigonous, smooth at the top; leaves overtopping the stem, 1/6 in. broad; bracts 6–7, similar to the leaves, several of the lower 6 in. long; umbel 1 1/4 in. diam., of numerous spikelets, simple; rays many, hardly 1/4 in. long; spikes of 8–12 spikelets spicately arranged, diverging at right angles; spikelets 1/2 by 1/12 in., maturing 3–5 nuts, nearly terete, greenish-white; rhachilla winged, deciduous below the lowest fertile glume; glumes rounded on the back, conspicuously 9–13-striate; stamens 3; anthers linear-oblong, not crested; nut 1/2 as long as the glume, trigonous, broad-oblong, black. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Transkei, Bashee River, Drège, 4424!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Harvey, 89!
Notes
The long spikelets with 5–7 flowers (3–5 nuts) would appear to distinguish this from the other Eu-Marisci, but the plant is so like M. radiatus type (Krauss 35), except as to number of flowers, that its distinctness may be doubted.

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