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Elegia equisetacea

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Name

Identification
Elegia equisetacea Mast. [family RESTIONACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Gilg,
Related name
  • Elegia equisetacea
  • Elegia propinqua

Flora

Entry for ELEGIA equisetacea Mast. [family RESTIONACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 7, page 59, (1900) Author: (By M. T. MASTERS.)
Names
ELEGIA equisetacea Mast. [family RESTIONACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 583
Elegia propinqua Mast. var. equisetacea [family RESTIONACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. x. 242; DC. Monog. Phan. i. 357.
Information
stems 2–3 ft. long, terete, olivaceous, white-spotted, simple or verticillately branched at the nodes; branches again verticillately ramulose; leaf-sheaths 1 1/4 in., spreading; male spikelets numerous, linear-oblong, in loosely paniculate cymes; cymes 4–5 in. long; spathes 1 1/4 in. long, flat, ovate, lanceolate; bracts shorter than the flowers, ovate, acuminate; perianth 1/8 in. long; outer segments linear-oblong, shorter than the inner; anthers apiculate; female inflorescence 3–4 in. long, linear-oblong, spicate-cymose; flowers three-sided; perianth-segments nearly equal, linear-oblong; fruit ovoid, somewhat 3-cornered, as long as the persistent perianth, 1-celled, 1-seeded. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Cape Div.; Table Mountain and Devils Mountain, under 1000 ft., Drège, 367, ♂! Caledon Div.; near Palmiet River, Drège, 116! Swellendam Div.; mountains near Swellendam, Ecklon and Zeyher! at the foot of the Lange Bergen, near Swellendam, Burchell, 7429, ♀! Uitenhage Div.; on the Van Stadens Berg nearest Galgebosch, Burchell, 4715, ♂!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Drège, 103, ♂!

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