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Ficinia pallens

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Identification
Isotype of Ficinia pallens (Schrad.) Nees [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Ficinia pallens
  • Ficinia striata
  • Ficinia bolusii
  • Schoenus pallens
  • Ficinia setiformis
  • Ficinia lithosperma

Flora

Entry for FICINIA setiformis 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
FICINIA setiformis Schrad. [family CYPERACEAE], Anal. Fl. Cap. 45
FICINIA atrata Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, ix. 292; x. 167.
FICINIA pallida Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, ix. 292?
FICINIA pallens Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, x. 169.
FICINIA striata Kunth [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 257; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxvii. 69.
Schœnus striatus Thunb. [family ], Prod. 16; Fl. Cap. ed Schult. 91; Schrad. Anal. Fl. Cap. 25 in note.
Schœnus indicus Lam. [family ], Ill. i. 135; Encyc. i. 740, excluding the figures cited.
Schœnus coronatus Steud. [family ], in Flora, 1829, 136.
Schœnus atratus Schrad. [family ], Anal. Fl. Cap. 24, t. 4, fig. 1.
Schœnus pallens Schrad. [family ], Anal. Fl. Cap. 25; Nees in Linnæa, viii. 85.
Chætospora striata Dietr. [family ], Sp. Pl. ii. 27.
Hypolepis atrata Nees [family DENNSTAEDTIACEAE], in Linnæa, vii. 525 in note; viii. 85, 93.
Information
glabrous; stolons clothed by pale-brown striate lanceolate scales 1/2 in. long, hardening into tough rhizomes 1/10 in. in diam., up to 4–8 in. long in herbarium examples; stems 4–12 in. long, tufted, slender but rigid, not setaceous, each carrying one head; sheaths subentire, uppermost truncate, with a well-developed leaf; leaves 1/3– 2/3 the length of the stem, 1/20 in. or less broad, with margins more or less inrolled; head 1/4– 1/3 in. in diam., ovoid, compound, with 3–5 bracts when fairly developed (but small heads less than 1/8 in. in breadth with few flowers occur); chestnut, more or less green-marked; lowest bract 1/2–2 1/2 in. long, similar to the leaves, much dilated and subquadrate at the base; margins chestnut, striate, entire, not scarious; flower-glumes ovate, acute, mucronate, microscopically toothed at the top; upper glumes of the spikelet male or empty, often obtuse, more or less scarious; stamens 3; anthers linear, with small linear-lanceolate white crests; nut 2/5 the length of the glume, obovoid, trigonous, smooth, black, microscopically reticulate; style about 1/2 the length of the nut, branches 3 linear, long; gynophore obconic, dark-brown, margin with 3 obtuse lobes in well-developed examples. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Malmesbury Div.; Hopefield, Bachmann! Cape Div.; near Cape Town, Thunberg, Burchell, 460! Harvey, 189! Bolus, 4738! Cape Flats, near Rondebosch, Burchell, 187! and near Wynberg, Drège! Cape Sand-dunes, Zeyher! Table Mountain, Ecklon, 857! mountains near Cape Town, below 1000 ft., Drège! Sea Point, Bolus, 4862! Swellendam Div.; mountains by the lower part of the Zonder Einde River, 500–2000 ft., Zeyher, 4396! Var. β, Cape Div.; near Cape Town, MacGillivray, 428! Bolus, 4016! Rehmann, 1796! Table Mountain, Ecklon, 856! Burchell, 597! Rehmann, 651! marshy ground above Simons Town Milne, 221.SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Sieber, 100! 104! Pappe, 91! 98! 100! Bergius, 57! 77! 190! Boivin, 486! Rehmann, 1180! 1791! Var. β, Thunberg, Bergius! R. Brown!
Notes
In one head of the collection marked by Drège, “ F. radiata, Kunth, α, ” the lowest bract is 1/4 in. distant.

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