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Isolepis eckloniana

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Identification
Isotype of Scirpus verrucosulus Steud. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by C. Reid, 1993 Isolepis eckloniana Schrad. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Isolepis verrucosulus Nees [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Isolepis cernua
  • Isolepis eckloniana
  • Scirpus verruculosus
  • Scirpus verrucosulus
  • Isolepis verrucosulus

Flora

Entry for SCIRPUS verrucosulus Steud. [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 verrucosulus Steud. [family CYPERACEAE], in Flora, 1829, i. 145
SCIRPUS setaceus Boeck. var. γ ecklonianus [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxvi. 503.
Eleogiton verruculosa Dietr. [family CYPERACEAE], Sp. Pl. ii. 98.
Isolepis eckloniana Schrad. [family CYPERACEAE], Anal. Fl. Cap. 15, t. 1, fig. 3; Nees in Linnæa, viii. 79; x. 149; Kunth, Enum. ii. 192.
Isolepis verruculosa Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, vii. 495.
Isolepis ptycholeptos Steud. [family CYPERACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 93.
Information
small, glabrous, tufted, annual; stems 2–4 in. long, each with 1 spikelet; leaves 0, i.e. uppermost sheath carrying sometimes a green point 1/6 in. long; spikelet 1/10– 1/5 in. long, ovoid, sometimes produced in fruit, many-flowered, pale; bract shorter than the spikelet; hypogynous bristles 0; style linear, nearly as long as the nut, branches 2 as long as the style; nut nearly 1/2 the length of the glume, obovoid flattened; outermost cells minute, quadrate, becoming white, searious and breaking up, thus appearing as numerous rows of points on the black nut. null
Range
Also in Sénegal?
Distribution
COAST REGION Cape Div.; near Cape Town, 60–100 ft., Bolus, 4900! 7919! marshes on Table Mountain, Ecklon, 875! Worcester Div.; Zeyher! Port Elizabeth, E.S.C.A. Herb., 108!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Drège! Bergius!
Notes
This plant is like the common S. cernuus, Vahl., but differs in having a 2-fid style and flattened nut. The “Sénegal” example was seen in Steudel's own herbarium.

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