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Cyperus thunbergii

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Identification
Cyperus thunbergii Not on sheet. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Vorster, P. ?, Mariscus thunbergii (Vahl) Schrad. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Mariscus thunbergii
  • Cyperus toisensis
  • Cyperus solida
  • Cyperus isocladus
  • Cyperus thunbergii
  • Cyperus dactyliformis
  • Mariscus solidus
  • Cyperus solidus
  • Mariscus riparius
  • Mariscus involutus

Flora

Entry for MARISCUS riparius 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
MARISCUS riparius Schrad. [family CYPERACEAE], in Goett. Gel. Anz. iii. 1821, 2067
MARISCUS Thunbergii Schrad. [family CYPERACEAE], Anal. Fl. Cap. 13; Nees in Linnæa, viii. 79.
Cyperus Thunbergii Vahl [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 371; Nees in Linnæa, vii. 520 in Obs.; x. 137, excl. several syn.; Kunth, Enum. ii. 76; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxvi. 330.
Information
glabrous, robust; stem 1 1/2–3 ft. long, 1/6 in. in diam., obtusely trigonous, smooth; leaves often as long as the stem by 1/3 in. broad, nearly flat when dry, thick, somewhat spongy, transversely lineolate, often scabrous on the margins near the tip and on the midrib beneath; rays of umbel 6–14, up to 3–5 in. long; bracts 6–8, up to 20 in. long, similar to the leaves; spikes very dense, 1–3, confluent at the apex of each ray in the normal form (but see var. β, γ, δ), often 1 by 1/2 in.; spikelets 1/5 by 1/16 in., maturing 3–1 nuts, dull red-brown, suberect even in fruit, not much compressed; rhachilla disarticulating below the lowest fertile glume, wings elliptic; glumes elliptic-oblong, obtuse, hardly keeled, 9-striate; stamens 3; nut 2/3 as long as the glume, trigonous, linear-oblong, black; style short, branches 3 linear. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Malmesbury Div.; Laauws Kloof, near Groene Kloof, 1000 ft., Drège! Cape Div.; near Cape Town, Burchell, 282! Paarl Div.; Berg River, Drège! Tulbagh Div.; near Tulbagh, Burchell, 1027! Uitenhage Div.; Zwartkops River, Pappe! Var. β, Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Ecklon, 105! Milne, 215! Simons Bay, MacGillivray, 409! Uitenhage Div.; Ecklon and Zeyher, 312! Bathurst Div.; between Theopolis and Port Alfred, Burchell, 4053! Albany Div.; Williamson. Var. γ, Clanwilliam Div.; Oliphants River, Zeyher! Mossel Bay Div.; Great Vals River, Burchell, 6530! Bathurst Div.; near Port Alfred, Burchell, 3992! Var. δ, Swellendam Div.; Buffeljagts River, Gill!SOUTH AFRICA Var. β, Drège! Bergius, 165! Thom, 909! Ecklon and Zeyher, 25! Var. γ, Thunberg.

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