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Cyperus ovularis

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Name

Identification
Mariscus cyperoides (Roxb.) A.Dietr. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Cyperus cylindrostachyus Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Vontes, P., Cyperus ovularis Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Vontes, P., Cyperus cyperoides Kuntze [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Koyama, T., Mariscus umbellatus Vahl [family CYPERACEAE ]
Related name
  • Mariscus cyperinus
  • Mariscus sublimus
  • Mariscus sieberianus
  • Cyperus cyperoides
  • Cyperus cylindrostachys
  • Mariscus sumatrensis
  • Mariscus cyperoides
  • Cyperus cylindrostachyus
  • Cyperus ovularis
  • Mariscus sublimis
  • Cyperus subumbellatus
  • Mariscus alternifolius
  • Mariscus umbellatus
  • Cyperus echinatus
  • Mariscus cylindristachyus
  • Cyperus umbellatus
Common name
  • Teasel sedge, Flora of North America Vol. 23

Flora

Entry for MARISCUS umbellatus Vahl [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 umbellatus Vahl [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 376 partly
Kyllinga umbellata Rottb. [family CYPERACEAE], Descr. et Ic. 15, t. 4, fig. 2, excluding some syn.; Linn. f. Suppl. 105.
Cyperus ovularis Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxvi. 376, form a partly.
Cyperus umbellatus C. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 200, form a partly; Boeck. in Engl. Jahrb. v. 91.
Information
resembling M. sieberianus, but spikelets very small, numerous; spikes usually 1/4– 1/2 the length of the rays, with the innumerable spikelets densely stellately spreading, so that the lower are much deflexed. null
Range
Abundant in Tropical Africa and the Mascareue Islands!
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; around Durban Bay, Drège, 4449!
Notes
The form figured by Rottboell l.c. is abundant in Tropical Africa, but has not yet been seen from India. Rottboell assigns his plant to India, but his characteristic figure may have been taken from an African plant. Whether the typical original “ umbellata ” be esteemed a species or a var., I entirely dissent from Boeckeler's plan of uniting it with the American M. ovularis, which I regard as well distinct from any Old World Mariscus.

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