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Cyperus mariscus

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Name

Identification
Cyperus mariscus Nees [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by C.G.D. Nees,
Related name
  • Cyperus mariscus
  • Mariscus solidus

Flora

Entry for CYPERUS albostriatus Schrad. [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 albostriatus Schrad. [family CYPERACEAE], Anal. Fl. Cap. 7;—Kunth, Enum. ii. 34; Krauss in Flora, 1845, 754; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxv. 581.
CYPERUS Mariscus Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, vii. 515, x. 134; Kunth, Enum. ii. 106.
CYPERUS pulcher Spreng. [family CYPERACEAE], in Flora, 1829, Band i. Beil. 5; not of Thunb.
Information
glabrous; stolons clothed by dark brown, elliptic scales, hardening into woody rhizomes 1/8– 1/6 in. in diam.; stems 8–20 in. long, rather slender but tough, trigonous at the top; leaves numerous, all near the base of the stem, as long as the stem or only 1/2 that length, 1/3– 3/4 in. broad, grass-like, with 2 lateral, white, more or less prominent nerves; tip lanceolate, not caudate; umbel compound; rays often 8–24, slender, 1–4 in. long, several usually nearly equal; bracts about 8, overtopping the umbel, several of the lower nearly equal, similar to the leaves; spikelets often all solitary, pedicelled, but in some examples many 2–4-digitate occur, 1/3 by 1/16– 1/12 in., compressed, pale-brown, 8–24-flowered; glumes ovate, acute or obtuse, not keeled, many-nerved; margins scabrous; stamens 3; anthers linear, not crested; nut 3/4 the length of the glume, trigonous, ellipsoid, brown; style scarcely 1/3 the length of the nut; branches 3, linear, rather short. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; Bosch Berg, Burchell, 3133! MacOwan, 1690!COAST REGION Port Elizabeth, E.S.C.A. Herb., 189! Alexandria Div.; Enon, below 1000 ft., Drège, 2028! Albany Div.; Glenfilling, Drège, 3961! Komgha Div., Flanagan, 986! King Williamstown Div.; near Toise River Station, 3500 ft., Kuntze, 275! Bathurst Div.; Port Alfred, Hutton, 60!EASTERN REGION Tembuland, Bazeia, 2500–3000 ft., Baur, 578! Pondoland, Bachmann, 85! Griqualand East; Umzimkulo Div., at Emyembi, 5000 ft. Tyson, 2546! Natal; Coast-land, Sutherland! Clairmont, Kuntze, 260! Nottingham, 4000–5000 ft., Buchanan, 129! near Durban, Wood in Natal Governm. Herb., 749! Buchanan, 48! Umbilo River, Rehmann, 8093! Howick, Junod, 307! Inanda, Wood, 1088! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 361! Krauss 10! 230!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5659!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Zeyher! Drège, 3960 partly! Ecklon and Zeyher, 13!

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