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Ficinia secunda

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Identification
Ficinia secunda (Vahl) Kunth [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on Sheet, Schoenus secundus Vahl [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Schoenus unrecorded
  • Schoenus secundus
  • Scirpus thunbergii
  • Schoenus bulbosus
  • Ficinia secunda
  • Primula veris
  • Pleurachne sieberi
  • Disa uniflora
  • Chaetospora unrecorded

Flora

Entry for FICINIA secunda Kunth [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 secunda Kunth [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 262;—Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxvii. 86.
Schœnus bulbosus Thunb. [family ], Prod. 16; Fl. Cap. ed Schult. 94.
Schœnus bulbosus Lam. var. β [family ], Ill. i. 136.
Schœnus dispar Spreng. [family ], Neue Entd. iii. 8.
Schœnus secundus Vahl. [family ], Enum. ii. 215; Nees in Linnæa, vii. 526.
Chætospora dispar Dietr. [family ], Sp. Pl. ii. 32.
Pleurachne secunda Schrad. [family ], Anal. Fl. Cap. 47, t. 4, fig. 3; Nees in Linnæa, viii. 91; x. 190.
Pleurachne Sieberi Schrad. [family ], Anal. Fl. Cap. 48; Nees in Linnæa, x. 190.
Information
glabrous; stolons long (seen up to 6 in. long), clothed by pale-brown striate lanceolate scales 2/3 in. long, hardening into wiry rhizomes 1/10 in. in diam.; stems 4–16 in. long, tufted; leaves often as long as the stem, hardly 1/16 in. broad, channelled, solid and triangular in the upper half; leaf-sheaths white or brown, often much torn, sometimes less conspicuous; inflorescence a simple spike 2–5 in. long, in which the spikelets, mostly solitary, stand 1/8– 1/4 apart subspirally, sessile; bracts similar to the leaves, usually overtopping the spike; spikelets 1/5 in. long, ellipsoid, hard, shining chestnut or chestnut-red; glumes ovate, keeled, tip triangular, hardly mucronate; nut 2/5 the length of the glume, obovoid-ellipsoid, trigonous, smooth, black; style much shorter than the nut, branches 3 linear, long; gynophore obconic, margin subentire. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Clanwilliam Div.; between Lange Vallei and Heeren Logement, below 500 ft., Drège! Cape Div.; near Cape Town, Bolus, 4863! Cape Flats, Zeyher, 1781! Knysna Div.; near the west end of Groene Vallei, Burchell, 5642! Uitenhage Div., Harvey, 126! 127!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg, Sieber, 109! 115! Sonnerat! Pappe, 97!

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