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Cyperus sexangularis

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Name

Identification
Cyperus sexangularis Nees [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Anonymous s.d.,
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Entry for CYPERUS sexangularis Nees [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 sexangularis Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, ix. 284, x. 135;—Kunth, Enum. ii. 32; Krauss in Flora, 1845, 754; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxv. 568.
CYPERUS webbianus Steud. [family CYPERACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 20.
Information
stem at the top, and nearly its whole length, 6-angled, i.e. triquetrous with a line or rib down the centre of each face; otherwise as C. textilis, Thunb. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; Fish River, Burke!COAST REGION King Williamstown Div.; Yellowwood River, 1000–2000 ft., Drège! Bedford, MacOwan, 1668!EASTERN REGION Transkei; Bashee River, below 1000 ft., Drège, 4443! 4444! Natal; Umlaas River, Krauss, 46! near Pieter Maritzburg; Krauss, 357! Sydenham, 300 ft., Wood, 4029! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 126!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Pretoria, Rehmann, 4775!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Zeyher, 1746! Ecklon and Zeyher, 11!WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand, Scully!
Notes
In Wood, 4029, from Natal, the stem is trigonous, irregularly or obscurely 6-angled, and resembles much that of the nearly-allied C. flabelliformis, Rottb.; but the spikelets in Wood, 4029, are rather those of C. sexangularis.

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