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Isolepis riparia

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Identification
Isolepis cernua (Vahl) Roem.& Schult. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by A.M. Muasya, Isolepis cernua (Vahl) Roem.& Schult. [family CYPERACEAE ] Isolepis riparia R.Br. [family CYPERACEAE ]
Related name
  • Scirpus inclinatus
  • Isolepis cernua
  • Isolepis riparia
  • Scirpus cernuus

Flora

Entry for SCIRPUS cernuus 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
SCIRPUS cernuus Vahl [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 245
SCIRPUS Savii Sebast. et Mauri [family CYPERACEAE], Prod. Fl. Rom. 22; Sowerby, Engl. Bot. Suppl. t. 2782.
SCIRPUS setaceus [family CYPERACEAE], Linn. herb. propr. et Mant. 321 (not Sp. Plant. ed. 2, 73); Rottb. Descr. et Ic. 47, t. 15, fig. 4; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxvi. 500, var. α, β partly, not γ.
Isolepis riparia R. Br. [family CYPERACEAE], Prod. 222; cf. Schrad. Anal. Fl. Cap. 16 in note.
Isolepis leptalea Schultes [family CYPERACEAE], in Roem. et Schult. Syst. Veg. ii. Mant. 62; Schrad. Anal. Fl. Cap. 16 in note, t. 1, fig. 2.
Isolepis pygmæa Kunth [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 191.
Isolepis chlorostachya Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, ix. 291; x. 149.
Isolepis microcarpa Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, x. 150; Kunth, Enum. ii. 214.
Isolepis rupestris Kunth [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 193.
Information
glabrous, small, tufted, annual; stems 2–7 in. long, slender, with 3–1 (rarely 4) spikelets; leaves setaceous, 1/4–3 in. long, usually much shorter than the stem; spikelets 1/10– 1/5 in. long, ovoid, 6–20-flowered, pale or chestnut-red, sometimes elongated, or with a cylindric sterile top; lowest glume often bract-like, suberect, longer than the spikelet which then appears lateral; glumes ovate, hardly keeled or acute; hypogynous bristles 0; stamens 3–2–1; anthers not crested; style linear, glabrous, hardly so long as the nut, branches 3 linear, longer than the style; nut nearly 1/2 the length of the glume, obovoid, obtuse, trigonous, smooth, black; outermost cells small, subquadrate, in very numerous regular rows, becoming on the ripe nut inflated, white, and scarious (so that the nut is described sub-tubercular white), finally breaking up in their centres (when the nut is described as porose). null
Range
Common in all warm and temperate climes, except in South-east Asia.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; summit of Bosch Berg, 4500 ft., McOwan, 2118! Var. β, Aliwal North; Witte Berg, 5000–6000 ft., Drège, 7411!COAST REGION Cape Div.; Lion Mountain, Mund, 24! Cape Flats, Zeyher, 1776! near Cape Town, Kuntze, 255! Rehmann, 1452! 1799! Robertson Div.; Cogmans Kloof, Kuntze, 293! Mossel Bay Div.; hills near the landing place at Mossel Bay, Burchell, 6287! Port Elizabeth Div.; near Port Elizabeth, below 100 ft., Drège! Albany Div.; damp places at the foot of Bothas Hill, 2000 ft., MacOwan, 1269! Fort Beaufort Div.; Kat River, Baur! King Williamstown Div.; Yellowwood River, 1000–2000 ft., Drège, 4375! Catheart Div.; Blesbok Flats, 3000–4000 ft., Drège! Queenstown Div.; Shiloh, Baur! Var. β, Paarl Div.; between Paarl and Lady Grey Bridge, below 1000 ft., Drège! Swellendam Div.; Zeyher! Uitenhage Div.; in the Zwartkops River, Ecklon and Zeyher, 643! Komgha Div.; Gonubie River, 2000 ft., Schlechter, 6142!EASTERN REGION Tembuland; Bazeia, 2000 ft., Baur, 757! Natal, Krauss! Var. β, Natal; Inanda, 2000 ft., Wood, 1575!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal, Rehmann!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Ecklon, 892! Wallich! Var. β, Bergius, 162!WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand, Drège, 7417!

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