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Isolepis gracilis

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Identification
Bulbostylis puberula C.B.Clarke ex Hook.f. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Isolepis gracilis Nees [family CYPERACEAE ] Bulbostylis puberula Kunth [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Clarke, C.B.,
Related name
  • Scirpus wightianus
  • Bulbostylis puberula
  • Isolepis gracilis
  • Fimbristylis dichotoma

Flora

Entry for FICINIA gracilis Schrad. [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 gracilis Schrad. [family CYPERACEAE], Anal. Fl. Cap. 44;—Nees in Linnæa, x. 172; Kunth, Enum. ii. 256; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxvii. 68.
FICINIA Poiretii Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxvii. 75.
Scirpus gracilis Poir. [family CYPERACEAE], in Lam. Encyc. vi. 763, not in Encyc. Suppl. v. 99, 102; Spreng. in Flora, 1829, i., Beil. 11.
Isolepis gracilis Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, vii. 493; x. 161, not in Wight, Contrib.109.
Isolepis lineata Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, x. 160; Kunth, Enum. ii. 215.
Isolepis Poiretii Steud. [family CYPERACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 98.
Information
glabrous; rhizome 3 by 1/10 in., clothed by rigid, lanceolate, striate, dull brown scales 1/4 in. long (usually 0 in herbarium examples); stems 6–16 in. long, tufted, each with 1 head; leaf on the uppermost sheath long, often 2/3 the length of the stem, 1/20 in. broad, channelled; broader leaves from the lower sheaths are sometimes present; bracts often 3 or more, spreading, lowest 1/2–1 1/2 in. similar to the leaves, not much dilated at the base; head 1/3–1 1/2 in. in diam., manifestly compound of 6–20 spikelets, greenish with chestnut spots when young, brownish-red when old; spikelets 1/4 in. long; glumes ovate, obtuse, or obtuse with a hardly excurrent mucro, or subacute; nut 2/5 the length of the glume, obovoid, trigonous, ashy-black, minutely transversely interrupted lineolate; style shorter than the nut, branches 3 linear, long; gynophore small obpyramidal, margin minutely 3-lobed. null
Range
Also found on Kilimanjaro in Tropical Africa.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; Bosch Berg, 4000 ft., MacOwan, 1970!COAST REGION Riversdale Div.; between Great Vals River and Zoetemelks River, Burchell, 6576! Mossel Bay Div.; Attaquas Kloof, Gill! Humansdorp Div.; grassy places in Lange Kloof, near Kromme River Heights, Bolus, 2692! Uitenhage Div.; near Geelhoutboom, below 1000 ft., Drège, 7419! Albany Div.; tops of hills near Grahamstown, 2000 ft., MacOwan, 186! 1973! Var. β, Stellenbosch Div., Ecklon, 1894!EASTERN REGION Pondoland, Bachmann, 115! Natal, Buchanan, 89! 332!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Petit Thouars, 17! Harvey, 360!

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