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Isolepis bergiana

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Name

Identification
Isolepis antarctica (L.) Roem. & Schult. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Isolepis bergiana Nees [family CYPERACEAE ]
Related name
  • Isolepis marginata
  • Isolepis incomtula
  • Isolepis antarctica
  • Isolepis cartilaginea
  • Isolepis bergiana

Flora

Entry for SCIRPUS incomtulus Boeck. [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
SCIRPUS incomtulus Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxvi. 693
Isolepis incomtula Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, ix. 291; x. 154; Kunth, Enum. ii. 196.
Isolepis Echinidium Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, ix. 291; x. 155; Kunth, Enum. ii. 196.
Isolepis exilis Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, ix. 291; x. 147; Kunth, Enum. ii. 214.
Isolepis kunthiana Steud. [family CYPERACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 95.
Isolepis bergiana Drège e [family CYPERACEAE], Pflanzengeogr. Documente 101, 195.
Information
glabrous, slender, tufted, annual; stems 1–3 in. long, carrying 2–7 spikelets sessile in one head; leaves often 2/3 the length of the stem, linear, flaccid; uppermost sheath sometimes nearly leafless; lower sheaths red; spikelets 1/6 by 1/10 in., many-flowered; lowest bract linear, leaf-like, often 1/2– 1/3 in. long; glumes boat-shaped, ovate, obtuse, with a short excurrent, sometimes recurved, mucro; nut minute, less than 1/2 the length of the glume, broadly obovoid, obtuse, smooth, outermost cells subquadrate inconspicuous; style-branches 3. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Clanwilliam Div.; Ceder Bergen, Shaw! Karree Bergen, 1500 ft., Schlechter, 8210! Malmesbury Div.; between Groene Kloof and Saldanha Bay, below 500 ft. Drège! Cape Div.; near Cape Town, Harvey! between Claremont and False Bay, Schlechter, 432! Devils Mountain, Rehmann, 912! Paarl Div.; Klein Drakenstein Mountains and Dal Josephat, below 1000 ft., Drège!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Drège! R. Brown! Bergius, 151! Lalande, 362! Reynaud! Ecklon and Zeyher, 47! 55!

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