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Fimbristylis autumnalis

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Name

Identification
Scirpus autumnalis L. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Fimbristylis autumnalis (L.) Roem. & Schult. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Clarke, C.B,
Related name
  • Scirpus autumnalis
  • Fimbristylis autumnalis
  • Scirpus mucronulatus
  • Fimbristylis frankii
Common name
  • Fimbristyle d’automme, Flora of North America Vol. 23

Flora

Entry for FIMBRISTYLIS complanata Link [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
FIMBRISTYLIS complanata Link [family CYPERACEAE], Hort. Berol. 1827, i. 292;—Kunth, Enum. ii. 228; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 646.
FIMBRISTYLIS autumnalis Boeck. var. α [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxvii. 38.
Scirpus complanatus Retz. [family CYPERACEAE], Obs. v. 14.
Trichelostylis complanata Nees [family ], in Linnæa, x. 146.
Information
glabrous; stems tufted on a very short, or obsolete, rhizome, 6–24 in. long, often much flattened at the top; leaves often 4–8 by 1/5 in., obtuse; umbel with 6–180 pedicelled spikelets; bracts 2, shorter than the umbel, often suberect, like the leaves, with obtuse tip; spikelets 1/4 by 1/12 in., dense, chestnut-red or brownish-red; glumes boat-shaped, ovate, acute; stamens often 3; style longer than the nut, linear, glabrous, branches 3, linear; nut very small, narrow-obovoid, round trigonous, straw-coloured, slenderly longitudinally ribbed because the transversely oblong cells are in vertical series. null

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