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Fimbristylis dregeana

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Name

Identification
Fimbristylis dregeana Kunth [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by K.S. Kunth,
Related name
  • Fimbristylis diphylla
  • Fimbristylis dregeana
  • Fimbristylis dichotoma

Flora

Entry for FIMBRISTYLIS diphylla Vahl [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 diphylla Vahl [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 289;—C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 636.
FIMBRISTYLIS communis Kunth [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 234.
FIMBRISTYLIS dregeana Kunth [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 232.
FIMBRISTYLIS polymorpha Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxvii. 14.
Scirpus diphyllus Retz. [family CYPERACEAE], Obs. v. 15.
Information
glabrous or more or less pubescent; stem commonly 12–20 in. long; umbel compound, though reduced sometimes to a few spikelets; glumes ovate, glabrous, concave, without distinct keel; style 2-fid; nut with 5–10 longitudinal ribs on each face; otherwise as F. dichotoma .The most abundant and widely-distributed of sedges, having (when most narrowly diagnosed) 140 names. The Cape examples are mostly tall, with broader leaves than in F. dichotoma; F. dregeana, Kunth, is 3–4 in. only, but has much stouter, rounder spikelets than F. dichotoma. null
Range
All tropical and warm-temperate regions.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Tembuland; Umtata River, below 1000 ft., Drège! Pondoland; between the Umtentu River and Umzimkulu River, Drège! and without precise locality, Bachmann, 113! 125! Griqualand East, near Clydesdale, 2500 ft., Tyson, 1191! Natal, Drège, 4371! 4373! Buchanan, 81! 118! 119! 338! 339! 340! 341! Gerrard, 487! Wood, 6012!KALAHARI REGION Orange Free State, Buchanan, 147! Transvaal; Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5622! 5623! 7714! and without precise locality, Kuntze, 243!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Harvey, 65!

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